Orange Cardinal

[shamrocks]

I am new to this website, but i need a little advice. We have a cardinal in our tank, black and white strips. He is in there over a month and was doing really great. Yesterday we noticed that he was looking orange and his black strips were grey. He's a picky eater, but he gets his fair share eventually. Which is frozen brine shrimp.
About 10 days ago our blue damasal bite off the end of his tail. We got rid of our damasal as he then killed one of our chromis.
Could it be stress related?
We have the following fish in our tank. Clown fish, 3 chromis, algea blenny, spotted mandrain, chocolate chip star fish, longspine black urchine, a banded coral shrimp, 5 hermits and 5 snails. And live rock of course.
Any information would be great. Thanks.

 

[blout]

Good choice to get rid of the little devil , do you only feed brine shrimp as theres not much nutrician in those and some fish have been known to starve to death from it. try adding some other food like marine flake food or mysis or even cyclo-peeze as all have higher nutrician valuesthose colours should come back really fast.



also when you notice his colour loss is it first thing in the morning ?

 

[ecto1]

How big is your tank? Damsels are aggressive when other fish come in to their territory; your tank could be overstocked.

 

[shamrocks]

Well our Damsel is gone now. Our tank is 30 gallons, and really very healthy. I will try out this food that you are talking about, however our fish mow down the brine shrimp. Our fish store recommended it. But we will research this other food. Our cardinal (beetlejuice) is doing much better, his colour has returned, and his tail looks great, still shorter then the top part, but getting there.
Thanks very much for all your advice.