Black Moor Help

[tiffers]

Okay...changed their food from expensive ($20) to cheaper ($10) for one bottle...that lasts about two weeks. Between these two bottles, I tried the Hikari stuff that was mentioned to me...they won't eat those little floaty pebbles... :| They just dirty up the tank...more than the fish do.

Before I switched...Jack looked like this:

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd182/tdyannd/The%20Phishies/S5000091.jpg

Switched food...and now I've got this:

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd182/tdyannd/The%20Phishies/S5001047.jpg

...can food do this to a fish? Or is something else wrong with him? Food is all I can think of...nothing else has changed. Yes, in the second picture he has blood in his eye...it's been that way for nearly a year since Catillac got a hold of him.

Oh, there's this image, too...his scales look healthy to me...just losing their color. He doesn't seem to have any parasites or anything...

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd182/tdyannd/The%20Phishies/S5001069.jpg

They do however, get those snails to eat every great once in a while...I cleaned my filters today, and they are full of the little egg sacks, but...they eat those snails like there's no tomorrow.

[kyukidojen]

Tiffers:
I am NOT a fish expert. But I did have fish growing up. I always picked out black and orange ones - I loved the spots. And with all of them, once they hit about a year or a year and a half old, they lost their spots. And became just plain old orange ones. I can't say if that's "normal" or if my fish had something wrong, but I do know it happened to probably six or seven goldfish (I always only had one at a time).

[tiffers]

...hmm, Jack and Elizabeth are well over two years old. Ed...a little over a year. But, Jack...he lost his color...super fast. :eek: Like, within a week or so!

[Jennicat]

Everything I can find says that it's very common for Black Moors to turn golden, some faster than others. :)

[tiffers]

:eek: Really!?

Will he go back to being black?! :(

[Jennicat]

I don't think so. :(

[tiffers]

...that is so sad. :(

Lol. Charles is going to be upset that his fish is going to stay orange...

Though, I guess it's good to know that it's not disease or something. :)

[Bettachris]

yes the ingreditents in food can change the coloring of your fishes.

To maintain a red for my parrot cichlids i use color enhancing food like colorbits.

brine shrimp has alot of charotin which changes the coloration to a redish-orange.

So my theory, since i havent read any of the stuff inside is that since Hikari does use top quality ingredients, and since koi are bred to hold black that hikari was keeping your goldfish black. unless this is the other way around.

[tiffers]

He only got the Hikari for a few days...it clouded my tank immensely and they wouldn't eat it... :confused: Before that, he was on TetraFin...since they were itty bitty, and now he's back on it but still getting more orange.