Black Moor is turning gold... looks cool. Black and gold! Seems perfectly fine! Water quality is good but I have never heard of a black moor turning gold. Anyone have this happen, perfectly black moor turning gold?

Patrick

Happens all the time, black is not a stable color for goldfish....

http://www.kokosgoldfish.invisionzone.com/...showtopic=56783

Yep, it's pretty common. My display pic is of my Moor George, he's been gold for years now. The same thing happened to my black oranda.

Chrissy

My moor is starting to show signs of the same thing. I can see some gold scales starting to show on his sides.

Mine will often show gold coming through on her belly, and then it will go back to black after a few days. It's weird, but I think there's possibly a correlation to the lighting. Her tank is in my boys' room, and there are times I run a little late turning on the light. It seems when that happens, she 'loses' some of her black for a while.

Which reminds me, I'd better go turn the light on!

Lisa

My black fish has turned gold as well - apart from a cute "mohawk" style "hairdo".

it could be sick, my black moors do that whenever they get ill, and then they turn jet-black again when they're well; try different things to improve their health, if nothing happens it could be due to lack of light, fish kept in dark conditions will slowly change to duller colours

My telescope, Spook, started out black and orange before turnning fully orange.

My dad has a comet that started out that way too, and now it's all orange with white-tipped fins.

Fish raised outdoors will often keep that nice velvet black color due to the sun light ! Indoor lighting often will cause that black to fade after time, I did an experiment in a indoor pond with a 250 watt metal halide lamp and it actually brought back the lost pigments in black moors, and some red orandas started to become a lot more "red" rather than that orange color ! unfortunatly it cost a small fortune in electricity every month and produced a ton of hair algae!