Have you ever had fish that lost the intensity of their color? A few of my tiger barbs, and my red tailed black shark seem a little "washed-out". Aside from that they seem perfectly healthy, and active. I'm scratching my head on this one. Does anyone have any ideas?
Pale fish?
- Thread starter AirborneAquatic
- Start date
Probably stressed out about something is my guess. Your water params all good? Nice signature by the way! My gf doesnt get MTS at all. Good thing its my money and my house!
Check your water parameters, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Bright lighting, light backgrounds, and light substrate can also cause this.
The color on the RTBS will fluctuate throughout the day. Within the same day I've noticed his color change from washed out to dark to washed out again. I'm sorry for not posting WP before, I plum forgot. Anyway here are my perameters GH is 0 KH is 0, NO2 is 0.5 NO3 is 0, and PH is 6.8. The light on the tank is a Marineland LED. It may be a bit bright but it's never on all day, and the blue LED's are on at night. I'm not sure what they should be stressed out about honestly, I put in four drops of love for every gallon in the water change lol. The thing that really get's me is that 5 of my 6 barbs are kinda washed out but the dominant male has never been brighter. That led me to believe it was something to do with a pecking order, but that wouldn't explain the shark.