TheAquaHolic001 Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 Either he's sick or guarding something idk I'm confused he went from a real light colour to what he is now, he no longer runs away from the rams who hate gudgeons I'm confused, he is also really aggressive. sorry for the bad photo once again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) What sort of gudgeon is it? Is there others in the tank? What's the white on side of the filter? Could be eggs that have gone fungused? Just for your information Your substrate isn't the best in my opinion Being quite large stones there is great potential for food to be trapped between stones and go septic a finer gravel(1mm) doesn't allow this to happen....fine sand doesn't work for plants as it tends to pack too hard, but it is preferred by rams who sift sand for food Edited October 13, 2015 by Rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
none Posted October 14, 2015 Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 As Rod mentioned above it does look like (although your photo is terrible!) the male Gudgeon may be guarding dead eggs on the filter. If it is a Firetail or similar 'dwarf' then that is possible. At first when I struggled to see the fish I thought firetail but the more I look at it the more the fins look Empire. If Empire it's way too small to breed. You've got to take better photos if you want answers re: disease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAquaHolic001 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 White on the side of pump is just the id tag and stuff for it warranty, it is a firetail gudgeon, all is good now to found out it was on eggs but the rams decided that won't happen and ate them all. Also I do have gravel in the tank it is just I have rocks on top because the canister I have running is so powerful it kicks it all up. Food can still get trapped yes but I have 8 Cory's for that. My main question was why has it gone black and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAquaHolic001 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 As Rod mentioned above it does look like (although your photo is terrible!) the male Gudgeon may be guarding dead eggs on the filter. If it is a Firetail or similar 'dwarf' then that is possible. At first when I struggled to see the fish I thought firetail but the more I look at it the more the fins look Empire. If Empire it's way too small to breed. You've got to take better photos if you want answers re: disease. I'll take a photo with my camera if you want, photo is terrible because it's on my ipod that only has a camera facing towards the thing you are photographing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
none Posted October 14, 2015 Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 My main question was why has it gone black and why? Because it had heightened breeding / defensive colours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAquaHolic001 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 Because it had heightened breeding / defensive colours Cheers! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to lose a small fortune worth of fish to a 5 cent feeder fish I decided to keep +10 others, 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
