SorryEh
Fish Fanatic
I went away for a week a month ago and came back to one of my cichlids I have in quarantine bearding and thought it was strange. So I tested the water thinking something must be wrong and it was stressing him and for some reason the PH had just plummeted which was extremely concerning so I spent a couple days slowly raising the PH through little water changes daily and got it to the normal levels of the main tank and put him back in. Now he has been in the 55 gal for 3 weeks and the apparent bearding has spread throughout almost his entire body. Just today I noticed that where the most colour change is happening is under his mouth and it almost appears blue to me. Is it possible he may have been cross-bred and is now only showing his other colours? He is also dark orange as you will see by the pictures, my others are all, as the name says "Electric Yellow"