Black and Yellow Chromis loosing color?

[Prodigal1011]

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]

Is it this fish;
<img src=http://www.liveaquaria.com/images/categories/product/p-70080-bicolor.jpg>
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/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1634+109&pcatid=109

If it is a true chromis, perhaps C. isolata, they turn more olive with yellowish head as they grow.
<img src=http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/images/products/Fish/large/000619_Chromis_insolata.jpg>

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

 

[Prodigal1011]

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]

an ugly tank!?

AWESOME HAHAH!

 

[Prodigal1011]

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]

LOL! At least he aught to fit in!

 

[degibson84]

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

 

[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 :beer:

 

[degibson84]

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 :beer:

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]

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