experience with rhinopias

[Spslvr]

in the last few years I have owned two rhinopias, the funny thing is both were purchased yellow then within a month turned pink, has anyone had similar experiences and also appear to change species....

 

[Spslvr]

This

To this

Then this one

Turned to this

 

[ginpang]

I've read they can change colour with diet , stress, shedding and surroundings.... !? Do you happen to have coralline covering everything wall to wall by any chance?

 

[Dmorty217]

Are the eating prepared foods?

 

[Spslvr]

There is a bit of coraline but ironicaly the pink stands out more than the yellow

 

[MrsReefK]

I do not have any input here, but I do like the color they're changing to!

 

[Spslvr]

Are the eating prepared foods?

I wish... its proving to be very difficult I managed to trick him once and he grabbed a frozen whitebait but spat it after a few seconds lol and hes never been fooled since, I feed him live cardinals gut loaded with spiralina brine soaked in bio viv....

 

[Spslvr]

I do not have any input here, but I do like the color they're changing to!

me too, especially since yellow ones are much cheaper than pink haha

 

[Wills612]

I had one a few years back for a while. I got it eating frozen silversides by first feeding live white mollies that I would release in the tank. After a few weeks I started holding the live mollies by the tail with a long set of tweezers he immediately took the Molly of the tweezers. Then the final step took a bit of starvation but he eventually started readily taking silversides off the tweezers.

 

[Joke]

Nice fish, they always remind me of a chines emporor from the past with a mustache

 

[hotelbravo]

Omg this is awesome where can I buy one?!?!?!?! TAKE MY MONEY

 

[Betta132]

They do that. Most fish that sit on the substrate can change color to some extent, and rhinopias are particularly good at it.

 

[Spslvr]

They do that. Most fish that sit on the substrate can change color to some extent, and rhinopias are particularly good at it.

Ive seen them chang to different shades, typically pink to purple or red, just thought it strange that both have gone from yellow to pink and in the first instance appears to change fron frondosa to eschmeyer