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Posted by Gary K. on June 3, 2006, 7:01 am
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Hi Jason,
I've had yellow labs for over a year and now have a tank full of 2-3" ones
that I've raised from parents that were both a bright yellow color. Now
that they've matured, it seems that only about 50% are bright yellow, the
rest are paler yellow and some have some black verticle stripes that are
more or less visible at different times. I also have one of the brown ones
that you describe(not really a solid brown, but with a brown cast to it).
It's actually a very healthy and attractive fish, but not at all like either
of the parents. Perhaps you have one with this type of coloration. It
didn't turn this color until it matured. By the way, I bought the parents at
petsmart.
Gary
> Hi,
> my wife and I have a 55 gallon african Cichlid tank we have a total of 10
> cichlids and we were wondering what would cause a fish to discolor our
> labidochromis caerulues (electric yellow) is now a brown color and we are
> not sure why, he doesnt looked stressed we have had our water check on a
> regular basis to see if maybe it was a ammonia problem the water checked
> out
> fine our PH lvls are good and we were just wondering what it could be, we
> have 2 Pengiun 350's as our filters and a bunch of real rocks, any ideas
> would be great as the only other people we have to ask is around here is
> the
> local petsmart (not saying anything bad ) but they are not the best of
> advise for cichlids we went ahead and put ammo lock in there just to be
> safe
> than sorry and we did a 15-20% water change as well
>
>
> Thanks
> Jason
>
>
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> my wife and I have a 55 gallon african Cichlid tank we have a total of 10
> cichlids and we were wondering what would cause a fish to discolor our
> labidochromis caerulues (electric yellow) is now a brown color and we are
> not sure why, he doesnt looked stressed we have had our water check on a
> regular basis to see if maybe it was a ammonia problem the water checked
> out
> fine our PH lvls are good and we were just wondering what it could be, we
> have 2 Pengiun 350's as our filters and a bunch of real rocks, any ideas
> would be great as the only other people we have to ask is around here is
> the
> local petsmart (not saying anything bad ) but they are not the best of
> advise for cichlids we went ahead and put ammo lock in there just to be
> safe
> than sorry and we did a 15-20% water change as well
>
>
> Thanks
> Jason
>
>