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Dark substrate may make a lot of species dull down in order to blend in, but when one fish is consistantly darker than all the others of the same species then something else must be going on. Martin. :? :( So, then I'm back were I started, I have no idea what caused this, the good thing about this ...

Recently my alph clown passed away. The smaller clown about 3.5" assumed role as alpha loach. This loach is usually a lighter color, however, this loach recently turned black like that once it assumed alpha loach. The loach is fine and healthy. I think this may be due to the assumption of alpha loa...

ckk125 wrote:any photo?

Is your dark=black?

Hi ckk125, you can see in page 1 of this topic the photos of my clown loaches, and yes, the dark I mention is almost black.

I've been watching photos of dark clowns and I've noticed that all of them have black or dark substrates. Does anyone have a dark clown with a light substrate? If not I will have to agree with Member ckk125, the dark substrate does make them dark.

Thank you all for all your coments, I was just worried that I might be doing something wrong and that caused the clown loach to turn dark. Although I still believe it's wired for a fish to change it's color in such a drastic way, he used to have bright colors like my other clown when I first bought ...

This is my clown loach with bright colors, 2 yo-yo loaches and a zebra. http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb252/anneluttmann/DSC03205.jpg This is the dark clown loach, you can see down below one of the zebras graying out. http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb252/anneluttmann/DSC03244.jpg Here you c...

In the pict you can see that one of the loaches has a normal coloring, I've seen this loach graying out, but the other one just turned black, and he never grays out. I am preety familiar with the graying out stuff, because I have two Yo-Yo loaches that play and fight a lot, and they gray out very of...

In my photo below my username, you can see the difference between the two clown loaches, I don't know how to post a photo in the forum, can you please tell me how?

Hi everyone, I'm new at this forum, but I have had several loaches for a while. A few months ago one of my clown loaches turned black, I thought that he was sick and that he was going to die, but this was 6 months ago, and he is just find, he eats well, he plays, he just turned black. Does anyone kn...