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Well, changed the substrate to Black Diamond sand and voila - ranchu is back to black! Funny, my LED doesn't look nearly as bright as it did with the white sand, so no need to make any changes there. Thanks for everyone's advice!

Well, I guess I have an project for the weekend!

I think without screening, my fish would mix the black and white sand as they're always combing through it!

I just ran a little experiment. Had some black ceramic tiles and laid them over the front half of my tank from left to right. My ranchu's color is almost black again. While I LOVE the look of white sand, I love my fish's colors more. I only have about 1" of white sand. How would I go about...

Thanks for your responses. My last tank had black background and Black Diamond sand. This time around I wanted to do something different. I took quite a while to find my heavy black calico, so imagine my disappointment after I moved him to my light tank! I have changed the pale gray background...

I have a calico ranchu that had majority matte black coloring when I bought him (1st pic) and through quarantine. As soon as I put him in my main tank, with white sand, his black coloring looked brown. The main tank seeded the QT, and the parameters were the same at time of transfer. He is...

Thank you so much!

Thank you, Aiken Drum, for your prompt reply. My HOB filter is a Marineland 200, rated for 30-50 gal tanks. I have 2 of them running since my research told me Goldies are very messy. I hope this is enough! I only plan on adding 1 more small fancy goldfish in the coming weeks. I don't plan to...

Hi all, I have a 40 gal breeder tank I set up 6 weeks ago and dosed with Prime and Stability. I was only semi-informed about the nitrogen cycle, and added 2 3" goldfish after 3 weeks, but before it was probably cycled. I lost 1 of them after 2 weeks and then started doing either 30% water...