yellowish percula clownfish

Hey everyone,

I bought a couple of tankraised true percs from saltwaterfish.com and one is a lot less orange than the other. It's also smaller. Can I expect the orange color to deepen over time? Is there any way to help this along?

The fish is about 1" right now, and the orange-r one is about 1.5" Here are a couple pics:




Thanks for the help!

Andy

thanks everyone!

thanks! They're both very small, 1" and 1.25" so I doubt that either is fully colored. I hope not, anyway. The smaller one doesn't even have much black on the fins or margins. They're ORA-bred, so I imagine that they're properly labeled but they won't hold still long enough for a fin-ray count.

They seem to get along very well and have bonded, otherwise I was thinking of selling off the small one and ordering another. The whole reason I paid extra to buy and ship percs was to get better color. I could have gotten tankraised ocelaris at petco for $10 but I went with the $30+shipping percs from saltwaterfish.com. If nothing changes, I'll be very disappointed.

An update: the fish did color-up and turn a nice orange, but it took TWO YEARS to fully make the transition. Worth it, though. Here's a picture of the same pair today:

The black is very intense and even runs down the males's back.

Here's another shot. They live in a big teal green long-tentacle anemone.