Gravel influencing color?
- Thread starter gotriceboy
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cichlids, and many other fishes, can change color depending on their mood, as a response to stress, as well as to adapt to their surroundings (darker to camouflage with dark surroundings, etc).
yeah do yourself a favore and don't get white gravel. I learned on that one. All my fish looked bleached out. It looked like I left them out in the sun to long.
LolCylon said:
Good advice from firsthand experience.
If you left them out in the sun wouldn't they TAN? haha
My Blue Acaras are always changing colors. On one side of my tank it is darker and the Blues tend to get a darker color. The other side has more light to it and they become a lighter color on that side. I also have a darker blue gravel and it seems to effect the colors as well.
Well I goofed then...my 55 malawi tank has white sand (the fine sand from HD) but a black/blue background. Oh well luckily all I have is albino zebras and one OB..something female, so I guess I'm ok then since they are supposed to be washed out (well white atleast)