Changing colours

[emi-chan]

Do loaches change colour as they get older? it's just that my two weather loaches are different colours and as they are different in size i thought it may be because of their age. the smaller one is brownish with dark speckles and the bigger one is more greyish with bigger speckles.

[Diana]

Weather Loaches can be all sorts of variations on that mottled look. I am not sure how much they change with age, but they sure can be different from each other.

Some Loaches do change patterns as they grow:
Yoyo markings get more complex.
Clown Loach stripes sort of split.


Some Loaches seem to come in 2 (or more) basic patterns that may be geographically linked. Kubotai can have lots of small spots or fewer larger spots.

[emi-chan]

thanks