Serpea Tetra losing color
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Anything at all new? Any other fish acting different?
I've had over 20 of them, 90g then into bags driven 40mins then into a 4gal bin for weeks, then into a 40b, all diff temps too, then shipped and they turned out better than fine.
Anyway they might be getting sick? Clamped fins or any other stress indicators?
I've had over 20 of them, 90g then into bags driven 40mins then into a 4gal bin for weeks, then into a 40b, all diff temps too, then shipped and they turned out better than fine.
Anyway they might be getting sick? Clamped fins or any other stress indicators?
I've had an issue with this before, but they were turning black.
From what I can remember about these guys is that sometimes they will start to lose their color when they get older or if they are stressed.
How big are they? How long have you had them? Do you feed any frozen foods?
How many serpae are in your shoal? They are bad fin nippers if not kept in a large shoal like 10 or more. Loosing color in my experience is associated with bullying of that fish by the dominant fish because there is not enough others to keep the bully busy. My serpaes would loose color and then turn greyish around head then die from stress and or infection from excessive fin nipping. This happened until there was only one warrior left (he was very red!) I started with 8 and then gave the bully away. p.s. you can see the serpaes in the july video i believe there were around 6 here it took him 6 months or so to kill all his competition.
I had a supremely aggressive one I ended up taking to a pet store and is the 25 min drive it was nearly white! I was shocked the store owner was ill concerned said it was just stressed its color came back while I was in the aquarium store chatting.