Fulgore2029
New Member
I was wondering why my Archerfish is always mostly black on it's bottom? Archerfish are suppost to be mostly a gold color with black stripes but my Archer turns totally black some times (a lot). Is this from stress or some disease I wonder? I only have 1 in the tank and he's bigger than any other fish in it, yet he's scared of any fish that comes within about a foot of him, why? Even why I come to feed them he gets very nervous. None of the other fish are attacking him so I'm wondering why he gets so scared all the time. There are only 3 other fish in the tank, 2 catfish and 1 Siamese Tiger Fish which are all small and smaller than the Archerfish. I think his color is probably from stress and I was wondering if I should get 1 or 2 more of them and maybe he won't be so stressed? My tank isn't that big, it's a 27 gallon tank so I don't want to many fish and I'm not sure if the Archer is a schooling fish. I'm also wondering if he needs a lot of plants/cover in the tank and if that would help. I don't have a testing kit so I don't know if the water is ok or not or how much salt I got in it and if thats the problem? Any help would be great 
