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These glowlight danio are the last two remaining from a shoal of 10 I bought 2.5-3yrs ago. They’ve always been quite plainly coloured, mostly silvery with very pale orange and some pale black lines.

Moved them into a larger, more densely planted tank about 2m ago and they’ve completely changed, one is now a really bright orange with pink under eye and the other is a purple/black. Anyone keep them and seen this before? I’ve definitely never seen a purple one. They don’t seem ill, seem like they’re loving the new tank, very active but as they’re getting on a bit maybe it’s an age thing? The darker one seems so much darker today than the last few days.

Sorry photo is rubbish, they’re incredibly fast swimmers!!
 

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I don't know anything about glo fish of any kind except to say that this is a man made phenomenon to attract buyers. So having said this and it is not natural in fish, it can always manifest itself in a fish's later life as something entirely different in color variations. That would be my guess.
 
My fish are glowlight danio, they’re related to the zebra danio. They’re not glofish. I had to google glofish as never heard of them, I don’t think they exist in the UK (genetically modified animals are not popular here).
 
essjay said:
Glowlight danios are Celestichthys choprae, not GM zebra danios.

Celestichthys choprae – Glowlight ‘Danio’ (Danio choprae, Danio choprai) — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com www.seriouslyfish.com

I'm afraid I don't know why they've changed colour, unless they are just 'happier' in their current tank.



GM organisms are strictly controlled in the UK
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Thank you, the photos on the link with more silvery colours are what they used to look like. I’m guessing they’re just very happy, they used to hide a lot in the old tank, very active in this new one, lots of planting/floating plants/wood/caves.
 
EndlerB said:
These glowlight danio are the last two remaining from a shoal of 10 I bought 2.5-3yrs ago. They’ve always been quite plainly coloured, mostly silvery with very pale orange and some pale black lines.

Moved them into a larger, more densely planted tank about 2m ago and they’ve completely changed, one is now a really bright orange with pink under eye and the other is a purple/black. Anyone keep them and seen this before? I’ve definitely never seen a purple one. They don’t seem ill, seem like they’re loving the new tank, very active but as they’re getting on a bit maybe it’s an age thing? The darker one seems so much darker today than the last few days.

Sorry photo is rubbish, they’re incredibly fast swimmers!!
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I have 10 Celestichthys Choprae and in the past day 1 of mine has turned a very deep purple. The only change is I added guppy grass and amazon frogbit, so I'm guessing they really like planted tanks
 
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