Fancy Goldfish Lost Her Color!

[BajaRocco]

Poor Roxy girl lost her gorgeous black fins. Any advice? Are they gone for good? She has plenty of sunlight and we use Hikari?

 

[Kribensis27]

It might be the diet. If you’ve only been using one type of food for a while, it could’ve resulted in some color loss. Do you use any fresh vegetables? That’s a really nice fish!

 

[flopperfrog]

a varied diet is key
if you start feeding her different kinds of foods she might gain her color back.
some foods you can add that arent pellets or flakes- peas with the skin removed, bloodworms, and brine shrimp (live, frozen, or freeze-dried)
gorgeous fish btw!

 

[jtjgg]

black is the most unstable color in goldfish, even black moors will sometimes turn completely orange.

 

[SallImSayin]

My Black Moor turned completely orange, then completely white. He stayed white. My comets turned white, as well. One is starting to get orange splotches, again. She's 10+, the Black Moor was only 1ish when he turned and didn't turn back. Mine eat pellets, flakes, color enhancing flakes, algae wafers, brine shrimp, blood worms, peas, etc.

 

[BajaRocco]

Gang, thanks for the responses! I treat her really well so glad to hear it’s pretty normal & not stress. Thank you!