Valchitsa

One of my little neons has turned almost completely white. Now pretty much the only color he has are the blue and red stripes. But even the red is starting to disappear. He is still eating, he's actually more excited about food then the rest of them. And he is swimming normally and staying with the school and no one is trying to kill him or keep him away. So why is he turning white? He really isn't showing any signs of NTD except for the white body. But I read that if a fish gets to that point hes going to die soon and he really doesn't seem like that at all. Has he decided to turn albino on me or is he preparing to be a ghost for Halloween?

Jess

Sorry to say, with my experience, it doesn't look good. : (

pinkfloydpuffer

I would quarantine him asap, so that if it is NTS your other guys won't get it. Good luck

Shawnie

whenever I had color changes of white on my fishies, I had ammonia...what are your water parimeters? goodluck..I hope he does better

Valchitsa

My water parameters are 0.0 ammonia, the pH is at 6.4. And he has been white for over a month now without any changes in behavior.

Shawnie

they are big nippers..could someone be terrorizing him? stress will cause major changes also ..

Valchitsa

Well he's in there with 4 other neons, 7 zebra danios, an oto and a rainbow shark. The only one I'm really worried about is the shark, but he only seems to notice the danios. He ignores the oto and seems to tolerate the neons. I never seen him show any kind of violance towards the neons, even when they invade one of his caves. Plus if they were being terrorized then wouldn't they all turn white? So far only one of em has.

I guess I'll quarantine him and see what happens. I just hope he won't die from the stress and loneliness of being quarantined. Thanks for the advice everybody. I'll keep you updated.