Neon's Stripe Is Turning Gold/silver

[ParadiseGuerrero]

Well as the title says, the stripe on one of my neon tetras is turning gold/silver. It seems healthy otherwise (hence why i didn't post in the emergency section) and it's mostly the second half of the stripe near the tail. Any ideas why it would do this?

 

[fluttermoth]

Is this something you've noticed happening gradually, or something that's come on suddenly?

I ask because many fish in the neon family can lose or change colour very dramatically. I once switched my bedroom tank lights on when the room was very dark and my green neons had lost all their blue/green and the stripe was a coppery red. Even if they've just been hiding behind the bogwood when I turn the lights on they can have gold/copper patches on the stripe.

 

[ParadiseGuerrero]

very sudden. I suppose it could be it had been sitting in a shaded patch. There doesn't seem to be any with a gold stripe any more If I hadn't asked my sister to look to I would have thought I'd imagined it. It pretty cool they can have such dramatic changes I take it it's nothing to worry about then?

 

[fluttermoth]

No, that sounds perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

 

[smokeyjo]

My neons always lose their colour when the lights are off at first I thought something was wrong but its never botherd them and the regained their colour soon enough