Black and Yellow Chromis loosing color?

Prodigal1011 · 06/28/2011, 09:33 AM

I purchased a black and yellow chromis a couple of months ago. For the first couple of weeks he was a hider. Never came out of the rock work until feeding time. Now he is out all the time, pecking around with the other fish in the tank, but loosing his color. He's turning almost gray and the only bit of yellow is from the front of his dorsal forward. None of my other tank inhabitants seem to have a problem, all my water parameters are perfect. He doesn't seem to be stressed out about anything, and I feed him a mixed diet, frozen brine, myasis, flakes, and some dried seaweed on occasion. Some advice would be great. He was a really cool addition to my tank, but I'm worried he isn't getting something he needs.

OodleyBoodely · 06/28/2011, 10:35 AM

Is it this fish;

If so, it is just growing up. They get large aggressive and ugly. They are not true chromis species, either. check out what LA says about them;
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...109&pcatid=109

If it is a true chromis, perhaps C. isolata, they turn more olive with yellowish head as they grow.

If not one of these, can you take a pic?

Prodigal1011 · 06/28/2011, 11:29 AM

Its the first guy.

I did some heavy research and it seems I was looking in all the wrong places. I'll start with LA from now on. Looks like he's going into my buddy's "ugly" tank. Thanks for the help.

LemonLemon · 06/29/2011, 05:10 AM

an ugly tank!?

AWESOME HAHAH!

Prodigal1011 · 06/29/2011, 08:57 AM

The Ugly Tank-AKA The Tank of No Return!

Home of the tail-less tomato clown, the one eyed nasau tang, a porcupine puffer (hes in one piece, just damn ugly), and now a unicolor-bicolor chromis.

OodleyBoodely · 06/29/2011, 02:38 PM

LOL! At least he aught to fit in!

degibson84 · 04/12/2016, 03:20 PM

Black mouth bicolor chromis. They have killed tangs 5x their size. I can't freaking get them out without sacrificing all my sps

SoloChromis · 04/12/2016, 05:49 PM

Oh yeah, when I worked at a LFS we had them dropped off as drab, mean adults all the time. Our refugee tank (3,600 gallons) was always well supplied with them. They were mean as hell, but they were mixed in with dominos, humbugs, jewels and a whole mess of other prohibitively aggressive damsels. Good luck catching him

degibson84 · 04/12/2016, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoloChromis

Oh yeah, when I worked at a LFS we had them dropped off as drab, mean adults all the time. Our refugee tank (3,600 gallons) was always well supplied with them. They were mean as hell, but they were mixed in with dominos, humbugs, jewels and a whole mess of other prohibitively aggressive damsels. Good luck catching him

I ended up with two. One on each end of a 220. My powder brown tang doesn't swim around much.

The tomini tang I had before them and all the sudden one day they just turned on him and just gradually picked him apart.

eastlake · 04/12/2016, 06:46 PM

Piscado diablo! Aka devil fish! Even though grey as an adult I still found the finage beautiful. That being said mean fish, and almost impossible to kill to boot. I had one who's fins at one point totally rotted off and had red ulcers all over the body, lying on the sand gilling heavily I thought it was the end. Nope. Full recovery. Spat in the eye of the devil and returned to earth to torment the rest of my fish

06/28/2011, 09:33 AM	#1
Prodigal1011 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Fort Myers, Florida Posts: 26	Black and Yellow Chromis loosing color? I purchased a black and yellow chromis a couple of months ago. For the first couple of weeks he was a hider. Never came out of the rock work until feeding time. Now he is out all the time, pecking around with the other fish in the tank, but loosing his color. He's turning almost gray and the only bit of yellow is from the front of his dorsal forward. None of my other tank inhabitants seem to have a problem, all my water parameters are perfect. He doesn't seem to be stressed out about anything, and I feed him a mixed diet, frozen brine, myasis, flakes, and some dried seaweed on occasion. Some advice would be great. He was a really cool addition to my tank, but I'm worried he isn't getting something he needs.

06/28/2011, 10:35 AM	#2
OodleyBoodely Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Azle, Tx Posts: 754	Is it this fish; If so, it is just growing up. They get large aggressive and ugly. They are not true chromis species, either. check out what LA says about them; http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...109&pcatid=109 If it is a true chromis, perhaps C. isolata, they turn more olive with yellowish head as they grow. If not one of these, can you take a pic? __________________ 37gal w/LED lighting with cement/oystershell/perlite background, DSB, 20l sump with 30lbs lr, biopellets in reactor, Reef Octo skimmer, 1 pajama cardinal No corals at this time. -

06/28/2011, 11:29 AM	#3
Prodigal1011 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Fort Myers, Florida Posts: 26	Its the first guy. I did some heavy research and it seems I was looking in all the wrong places. I'll start with LA from now on. Looks like he's going into my buddy's "ugly" tank. Thanks for the help. __________________ NEW-300g Custom Tank NEW-10g Mini Peacock Mantis Tank 75g-Mixed Reef Tank-Current Nova Extreme Pro 155g Bowfront-Mixed Reef Tank-3-150w Metal Halides

06/29/2011, 05:10 AM	#4
LemonLemon Registered Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,072	an ugly tank!? AWESOME HAHAH! __________________ Show me your teeth

06/29/2011, 08:57 AM	#5
Prodigal1011 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Fort Myers, Florida Posts: 26	The Ugly Tank-AKA The Tank of No Return! Home of the tail-less tomato clown, the one eyed nasau tang, a porcupine puffer (hes in one piece, just damn ugly), and now a unicolor-bicolor chromis. __________________ NEW-300g Custom Tank NEW-10g Mini Peacock Mantis Tank 75g-Mixed Reef Tank-Current Nova Extreme Pro 155g Bowfront-Mixed Reef Tank-3-150w Metal Halides

06/29/2011, 02:38 PM	#6
OodleyBoodely Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Azle, Tx Posts: 754	LOL! At least he aught to fit in! __________________ 37gal w/LED lighting with cement/oystershell/perlite background, DSB, 20l sump with 30lbs lr, biopellets in reactor, Reef Octo skimmer, 1 pajama cardinal No corals at this time. -

04/12/2016, 03:20 PM	#7
degibson84 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Youngstown, OH Posts: 2,393	Black mouth bicolor chromis. They have killed tangs 5x their size. I can't freaking get them out without sacrificing all my sps

04/12/2016, 05:49 PM	#8
SoloChromis Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Florida Posts: 787	Oh yeah, when I worked at a LFS we had them dropped off as drab, mean adults all the time. Our refugee tank (3,600 gallons) was always well supplied with them. They were mean as hell, but they were mixed in with dominos, humbugs, jewels and a whole mess of other prohibitively aggressive damsels. Good luck catching him __________________ 60g Macro Algae & Gorgonian Dominated Reef Cube & 20g (Peacock) Mantis Tank Current Tank Info: 60g Caribbean-esque Reef (2'x2'x2'), 10g Quarantine

04/12/2016, 06:46 PM	#10
eastlake Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: willoughby Posts: 648	Piscado diablo! Aka devil fish! Even though grey as an adult I still found the finage beautiful. That being said mean fish, and almost impossible to kill to boot. I had one who's fins at one point totally rotted off and had red ulcers all over the body, lying on the sand gilling heavily I thought it was the end. Nope. Full recovery. Spat in the eye of the devil and returned to earth to torment the rest of my fish

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