Madness's "kids" in my tank!

DMD123

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The small zo was really looking bad, skinny and not eating. The small red devil too was acting strange and not eating. I didnt want to give up on them but I thought it better to remove the sick.

The bocourti still worries me because it too just does not want to eat. But I am giving it a chance because it is not acting totally weird. Whatever issues had hit my tank, the lack of appetite was the first symptom. I am not seeing anything else, no fuzz or issues on the body and no stringy white poo. I hope this is not another round of illness but just a few stressed fish that succumbed.

I dont know if my silver dollars can be "carriers" and infect others. Maybe the issue was that I should have bleached everything including the gravel. I did not do a 100% disinfection of everything so some remnants of the bacteria could have survived.
 

seattle23

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Madness's hoga hanging with one of my festae.
 

DMD123

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Was the hoga always lighter colored? Mine is a lot darker. Then again I also have a darker gravel. Just wondering if mine might lighten up with age.

Nice pics!
 

seattle23

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DMD123 said:
Was the hoga always lighter colored? Mine is a lot darker. Then again I also have a darker gravel. Just wondering if mine might lighten up with age.

Nice pics!
No he/she was darker then went lighter.
 

DMD123

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I like the darker color on mine. :(

But I notice that on the full grown fish it seems the color darkens up again. Probably just a phase in their growth, kind of like peeling in the red devils and midas.
 

Madness

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Mine go from dark to light and back to dark, depending on the mood. :)
 

fishman09

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madness said:
Mine go from dark to light and back to dark, depending on the mood. :)
+1 :D heres some pics of my male. about 5" and starting to put on some mass
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and a couple pics of my male devil also 5". and has a very similar pattern to his dad :D
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DMD123

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fishman,

Your current hoga pics look like mine. In a previous picture post he was lighter like Seattle23's. I think it was your community picture post.
 

DMD123

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Mine stays dark almost all the time. In the morning when the light comes on he is light. At times I wonder how much effect gravel color had on fish in regard these color changes.
 
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