blue Zaire moba frontosa

[rizzo]

I have 6 moba fronts and there about 8 months old. My thing is they were blue in my 75g tank now I upgraded to a 150g and its been up and running a month now. They only get blue when I feed them krill then they go back pale blue, im wondering has anyone had this happen with there fronts?
I do weekly water changes add cichlid salt and buffer my ph is 8.4
Filtration fluval fx5,aquatop cf500uv, 850gph powerhead, topfin 60 for agitation. Thankx in advance if you can help me.

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Maybe something is stressing them out? Have you added any new fish? Are you testing the water parameters? Stress is the main thing i would look into for fish losing color.

 

[rizzo]

Yea I added a new fish but it is a acei and the fronts are 3x his size, I just upgraded from 75g tank to a 150g and I think they haven't adjusted yet. You may be rite any suggestions and I just checked my water.nitrate 40ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Ammo 0ppm
Gh 180ppm
Kh 240ppm

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Your right, they just may not feel at home yet in the new tank. Im sure as they settle in they will get their vibrance back. Good luck with them.

 

[rizzo]

Thankx I hope so! you can see a vid on YouTube search 1ozzir
Someone said because there still juvies this happens but as they mature color up.