What's new
By:
Filters

Golden white cloud mountain minnow, very pale?

G

Graciee

New Member
Joined
Jun 26, 2023
Messages
33
Reaction score
5
Location
London
Hi I've been googling it lots but can't seem to find anything so I thought I'd ask on here. One of them is very like pale, washed out, not vibrant orange like the others. It is eating and behaving normally tho. Does anyone know what causes this?

Is hard to capture in a picture but without the lights on the camera shows it up a bit better.(it's a very obvious difference in real life)

There's 6 of these fish, a couple amano shrimps, a butterfly loach and some assassin snails in here.

Thanks :)
 

Attachments

  • 20240128_102728(0).jpg
    20240128_102728(0).jpg
    355.8 KB · Views: 71
What you have is a reasonably recent product of line breeding. It isn't a natural fish, but a cultivated form, and they don't always come out right.

Paleness is usually a sign of stress or poor health, if a fish begins with wild type colouration. Hopefully, with your fish, it's just a matter of variation.
 
GaryE said:
What you have is a reasonably recent product of line breeding. It isn't a natural fish, but a cultivated form, and they don't always come out right.

Paleness is usually a sign of stress or poor health, if a fish begins with wild type colouration. Hopefully, with your fish, it's just a matter of variation.
Click to expand...
Oh that's interesting!

The worrying thing is I've had them about 7 months now, and I'm not sure this one was always pale like this tbh, but they moved so fast at first, they're calmer now so I can really look at them all. So it could be sick I guess. Guess there's no way of knowing!
 
As GaryE said its probably a colour variation. golden white cloud mountain minnows can can vary quite a bit from white looking. to gold some can have a variation of colour in their fins.
 
fish48 said:
As GaryE said its probably a colour variation. golden white cloud mountain minnows can can vary quite a bit from white looking. to gold some can have a variation of colour in their fins.
Click to expand...
Yes hopefully it's just that!

Do you know if neon tetras can live with the fish I have? I'm thinking of getting them a larger tank, and I'd like some variety but not sure what else I can put with them.
 
Yes, white clouds and neon Tetris can happily live together.
A colour variation from the from the normal type. white cloud
Yellow tipped white clouds.

IMG_6964.jpg
 
Not all specimens will have the same intensity in coloration. But also the mood they're in can make them change color.
 
moonmist said:
I’m sorry to hear your fish died ): I was going to say that 2 days ago I noticed one of my ember tetras was pale just like in your photo and they died the next day. So sad
Click to expand...
Oh I'm sorry to hear about your fish :(

I wish I knew what happened to mine tbh
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

E
White cloud mountain minnow gender?
Replies
2
Views
99
fishorama
F
B
White cloud mountain minnows - gold and regular
Replies
9
Views
837
Beastije
B
B
Which fish would YOU add
Replies
6
Views
359
Beastije
B
TwoTankAmin
Lots of tanks, plants, equipment, decors and fish/inverts for Sale
Replies
1
Views
251
Colin_T
Colin_T
A
Sick minnow+danio+guppy?
Replies
6
Views
1K
Ami_bby
A

Most reactions

Useful Links

Back
Top