Clown Color

[pyxis]

ok, my oldest clown has gone from a bright orange color to the color of a rotted orange.

It almost looks like a dark brown with some bright orange spots. Any clue what could be goin on with his coloring? or is there any thing i can do to get his coloring back?

plmk

[ScottT1980]

Any new stresses? Change in diet? How long have you had him? What type of clown? Just trying to get the ball rolling a bit...

Take er easy
Scott T.

[pyxis]

no change in stress, its a false clown, no change in diet brine every evening have had him since aug 03

[EdgeKrusher]

Do you soak the brine in selcon or some vitamin solution? That could be the problem. Try varying his diet more, use pellet's, formula 1, or something with vitamins and minerals that fish need Just feeding your fish one item, especially brine, that lacks any nourshimetn is not the best thing to do. Hope things get better.

[pyxis]

ok, ill start trying that, but the past few days hes been really picky about eating, not eating nearly as much as he use to eat.

I would probably guess he eats maybe 1/8 of the brine. where he use to eat 1/2 - 3/4 of the brine himself


no i never soaked the brine in anything. ill pick up some other stuff later tonight.

[ScottT1980]

This is kind of the standard so you might have already done it but I really would check your water parameters. If he is eating less and with the color change, I think it might be getting stressed somehow. Even then, if you can't pinpoint anything, do a water change and see what happens.

Personally, I get sort of lazy about testing water params so when things look wrong, I just do a water change and it usually fixes most problems...

Take er easy
Scott T.

[Montanareefer]

I bet it is tired of brine shrimp and needs a more balance diet which will bring back the color.