Why is my paroon shark not dark black in colour?
- Thread starter Everlance
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The easiest way to settle what fish it is. Is with a pic if you can upload one. Paroons have very pointed dorsal fins. But from what I have seen both fish turn black. My ID is pretty dark but he is 6-7" and my baby paroons have no black at all yet but are only about 2". Lighting I don't think would affect color at all. I would think what you feed it would be more important. And I have seen ID's that were 4" that we're silver still I would worry till it gets a little older it'll come in. On a side note thou lights seem to stress them out like I said thou it won't effect color.
The main character, it depends of contrast of the bottom according cryptic nature of him, dark bottom or clear bottom. Also, the degree of stress. Everlance, you post any pic of him. You should take a picture with shuffer as fast as possible.
The trick I did with the light is move it all the way forward towards the front. This way there's always shade in the back. My ID is never stressed about lights anymore. During feeding, I have to move the light back to open the cover but that's not an issue.
mine is definately a paroon and not an id. it has a wider body and definately sharp pointed dorsal fin.
@hondacrx2 i feed it with sinking pellets (a mixture of tropical weisi gran & hikari sinking carnivore pellet)
@zapatower what you mean is that i should get a dark substrate as gravel or remove the gravel? or a dark background? fyi the enviroment around the outside of my tank is kinda bright in colour( like light brown curtains, plain white table and my walls are bright yellow)
@hondacrx2 i feed it with sinking pellets (a mixture of tropical weisi gran & hikari sinking carnivore pellet)
@zapatower what you mean is that i should get a dark substrate as gravel or remove the gravel? or a dark background? fyi the enviroment around the outside of my tank is kinda bright in colour( like light brown curtains, plain white table and my walls are bright yellow)