pleco - changes colors?

[Briarmoor]

I thought my pleco might be getting sick because its color got lighter yesterday. My husband commented on it, so I wasn't imagining it. Then when I turned the light out last night and it swam into the darker brown log, it was a dark brown again. Can they change colors? I swear this one was lighter brown when it was lying on the lighter brown gravel. Weird. It seems fine, eating and swimming, not sickly.

P.

 

[kevin007]

Yes they can..they turn very light colored when i change my tank water..and when it's on the gravel like you said, normal

 

[Ami]

I thought my pleco might be getting sick because its color got lighter yesterday. My husband commented on it, so I wasn't imagining it. Then when I turned the light out last night and it swam into the darker brown log, it was a dark brown again. Can they change colors? I swear this one was lighter brown when it was lying on the lighter brown gravel. Weird. It seems fine, eating and swimming, not sickly.

P.

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Hey Pam, are those new puppies I see in your avatar?

The plecs with spots can camouflage themselves just like big cats can in the wild. The main time I noticed it was when the lighting levels in the tank changed because he took a wee while to catch up!

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

Ahhhh! That would explain the P. I always sign with a P. too and we both share the same name. Except if anyone calls me Pam they will be tortured horribly and painfully.
The more I learn about catfish, the more they amaze me and the more I love them.
Hugs,
P.