my ornate is fading its color

[peraltaaero]

hows the water? temp? what are you feeding them?

so the color depends on the temp?
if the water gets warmer their color gets darker???

 

[Tom500]

Well thats good, im unsure as to the problem then all i can think of is that the temp is too high or the amonia or nitrate is high oh and if they are fed exclusively on guppy's then its not very good, all fish require a varied died to gather the correct amount of minerals and vitimins needed to be in tip top shape. So my suggestion would be ye feed guppy's as an occasional treat but try to introduce blood worm, prawns and for the staple a good quality pellet food or two.
Hope this helps.

 

[Tom500]

so the color depends on the temp?
if the water gets warmer their color gets darker???

Other way arround.

 

[Hao]

possibly stress or sick

 

[peraltaaero]

Well thats good, im unsure as to the problem then all i can think of is that the temp is too high or the amonia or nitrate is high oh and if they are fed exclusively on guppy's then its not very good, all fish require a varied died to gather the correct amount of minerals and vitimins needed to be in tip top shape. So my suggestion would be ye feed guppy's as an occasional treat but try to introduce blood worm, prawns and for the staple a good quality pellet food or two.
Hope this helps.

how can i decrease the nitrate??

 

[Hao]

water change can help lower it

 

[peraltaaero]

any other ways???

 

[Hao]

dunno sorry

 

[mrhayeshimself]

any other ways???

i use stress zyme, but you can look at the filtration forum, thats where i get ideas about nitrates and other things like that

 

[Tom500]

Water changes are the best idea, they are brilliant for everything and seem to give fish a real boost, are you doing your regular water changes? With very predatory fish i would reccomend 30% a week but do it in smaller ammounts like 10% 3 times a week or 15% 2 times a week to reduce stress since they are so small.
GL with it all