Chrysopterus Color Loss Thread

[the_real_brian]

i have a fiji Chrysopterus pair that are about 6" Long. mine have very vibrant yellow and the brown is getting a little darker on them, but the yellow is still blazing golden. the white stripes still have a bold blue tint to them and i think mine are stunning. one of the best pairs i seen around. i am trying to breed clowns and i got these guys last month and they are one of my fav pairs that i have. i have a rose and green bta that they have. the female stays in the rose and the male in the green.
i also use IO salt and always have. i feed them 4x a day, my water temp is 82.
i feed them a homebrew food containing shrimp, clam, mussels, pe mysis, cyclops and nori and a few other stuff. i also feed pe mysis. i also feed them otohime ep1 pellets cause i bought the starter kit and the bigger pellets are good for them.
i also use spectum pellets, omega 1 flake and freeze dried mysis, another pellet that has a green bottle and another of the same mfger with the blue bottle.
i feed lot of different foods.
my lighting is a 48" T5 4 bulb fixture.
not sure what else to put down so if you have any other questions, ill answer later. i will post a pic or 2 of them shortly after i upload them

Are they white tails?

 

[Samcro]

no, mine are fiji with yellow tails.

 

[Samcro]

figures i would add some pics of mine to the party.

 

[Ron Popeil]

beautiful fish. you will have no problem with them maintaining those brilliant yellows. thanks for posting!

 

[vaporize]

did you just recently get them? their skins looks like brook

 

[houser]

I would agree a potential storm is brewing on those fish...
Good luck certain to be stunners when they clear Q.

 

[Samcro]

i got them a month or so ago. I bought them from a very reputable reseller and he did a 8 week QT on them before shipping them. dips, meds the whole 9 yards with all his fish.
my female is pushing 5" or more.

my camera skills are not very good and they are very colorful and not whitish in the pics.the brown is dark and the yellow is very brilliant. i did have the flash on in the first. i can never get a good pic of my clowns cause they move too fast and the pic always turns blurry.

 

[houser]

I lost my male in my most recent yellow tail pair at 7 wks. Female still once in a while looks weird once in a blue moon. That makes like 3 months in Q for her so far. They were both essentially flawless for the first month, then a struggle with the male for 3 wks. Sucked. OK back to white tails which I might add maintain their color lovely even after 6 months in the freezer

 

[houser]

Did those fish share q with others or in solitary? Just curious whom you talked to on that

 

[houser]

Ok still off topic but lone girl at 3 months...

 

[Samcro]

not sure. but i will ask and post back later.

 

[BonsaiNut]

A. chrysopterus is specifically listed as undergoing melanistic color changes due to the host anemone they are being kept with (see Fautin and Allen's Field Guide page 140). It specifically states that only certain clownfish species react this way, and only with specific actinian species. However the book specifically mentions that A. chrysopterus, when placed with S. mertensii, will darken quickly "within a matter of hours", though the lightening will take "longer" (no specific time frame mentioned).

Since S. mertensii is very rare in captivity, perhaps the color change is due to a change in actinian hosts?

Or maybe because A. chrysopterus has the ability to change color in this way, they are more susceptible to color change due to other stress or environmental factors?

Sorry I wish I had something else to add...