View Full Version : Gravel influencing color?
gotriceboy
08-01-2006, 1:18 PM
Can gravel color influence the color of you cichlid?
liv2padl
08-01-2006, 2:59 PM
definitely
plah831
08-01-2006, 3:19 PM
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).
Rbishop
08-01-2006, 6:29 PM
Most definitely.
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.
plah831
08-01-2006, 6:55 PM
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.
Lol :)
Good advice from firsthand experience.
If you left them out in the sun wouldn't they TAN? haha :D
Needeles
08-01-2006, 7:09 PM
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.
guppiesplus
08-01-2006, 9:57 PM
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)
gotriceboy
08-02-2006, 1:25 PM
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.
Cylon... the gravel you have in your tank makes your GT's color pop! Nice job!!
Cylon
08-02-2006, 11:40 PM
LOL thanks, I have purple gravel in the now with blue coral but I can't take any credit for his color. He had that even when he was a juv.
rosita
08-04-2006, 10:22 AM
Shore can!! I have a juvie (3 inch) Black Diamond, growing some in a 10 gal (working on space for another BIG tank, he'll be @10-12) when he is in a dark spot in the tank (lots of fake plants with big leaves, plants across the top for cover, one bulb removed) he's velvet black with irridescent white spots all over!! But the substrate is gravel/sand--so he's usually sand color with strange spots. At least I learned it in the grow-out tank!!!