I have 2 medium sized fancy goldfish (ryukin, black moor) and 1 Plecostomus (or pleco) in a 10 gal. freshwater.
Now, I was just wondering. Why does my pleco change colors? Sometimes he'll have a very vivid dark brown color to his skin, almost black on the darker spots even. And other times, he'll be a lighter brown color with some pastier colored brown in splotches .
He's perfectly healthy seeming. He has a decent amount of algae to eat and I usually put a couple of snow pea shells (strings removed) in the tank and they like to munch on that all day. I can't really feed him the algae eater food discs, because my ryukin goldfish is a tank (so his name is Beautiful Tank) and he's eat the whole algae disc and then gets constipated from it (he's a goof).
The temperature ranges from 75'F to 84'F and the light is usually on for a few hours a day.
Anyways, if it's a health issue, I'd like to know about it. Otherwise, I just wanted to know if it's normal and why plecos have changing skin color! It's kind of interesting. Let me know! Thanks
Now, I was just wondering. Why does my pleco change colors? Sometimes he'll have a very vivid dark brown color to his skin, almost black on the darker spots even. And other times, he'll be a lighter brown color with some pastier colored brown in splotches .
He's perfectly healthy seeming. He has a decent amount of algae to eat and I usually put a couple of snow pea shells (strings removed) in the tank and they like to munch on that all day. I can't really feed him the algae eater food discs, because my ryukin goldfish is a tank (so his name is Beautiful Tank) and he's eat the whole algae disc and then gets constipated from it (he's a goof).
The temperature ranges from 75'F to 84'F and the light is usually on for a few hours a day.
Anyways, if it's a health issue, I'd like to know about it. Otherwise, I just wanted to know if it's normal and why plecos have changing skin color! It's kind of interesting. Let me know! Thanks