Ok, so I just got home about an hour ago from the Petsmart a town over. The fish there all are really healthy and kept impressively well for a company like Petsmart, much better than the Petco in my town which I'll never buy fish from. Anyway, they had a great selection of Cichlids and I chose a Firemouth and a JD. Both about an inch in length because I wanted to get them young to witness their growth.
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So the only complaint about Petsmart is I told the woman who caught my fish to get the darkest Dempsy in there...(there was about 6 JDs total, 2 dark 4 lighter) the woman who caught my fish had to chase it around the tank for a while until I finally told her just get either of the two dark JDs whichever you can catch first because I realized how stressed this was gonna make them. As she took him out and put him in the container he looked really pale and I said something like "Is that the dark one??" and she told me that it paled out due to stress. So I asked her "Will it darken back up?" and she just told me that she :"doesnt know".
Basically what I'm asking is, first of all is my little JD gonna be ok, because hes still quite pale now after being in my tank for 45 minutes or so, and second is he going to darken back up? The firemouth seems to be doing just fine and they've both already selected two little vases I put in their sideways as caves.
Thank you for anyone who decides to help me.
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So the only complaint about Petsmart is I told the woman who caught my fish to get the darkest Dempsy in there...(there was about 6 JDs total, 2 dark 4 lighter) the woman who caught my fish had to chase it around the tank for a while until I finally told her just get either of the two dark JDs whichever you can catch first because I realized how stressed this was gonna make them. As she took him out and put him in the container he looked really pale and I said something like "Is that the dark one??" and she told me that it paled out due to stress. So I asked her "Will it darken back up?" and she just told me that she :"doesnt know".
Basically what I'm asking is, first of all is my little JD gonna be ok, because hes still quite pale now after being in my tank for 45 minutes or so, and second is he going to darken back up? The firemouth seems to be doing just fine and they've both already selected two little vases I put in their sideways as caves.
Thank you for anyone who decides to help me.
