Maintain black white colour Of Panda Dragon Eye, Is there a special requirement to maintain the colour of Panda Moor? Options

[Ray Ng]

I have tried keeping Panda Moors a few times and most of them ended up being "bleached"; meaning the black color disappears as they grow (usually takes about 6 months). Is there some tips on maintaining the panda look of these moors?

I have one Panda moor kept in an outdoor tub with algae wall and another kept in a sheltered fish tank. Both of them turn white after a while. I was just wondering what could be the right environment for pandas. My setup all uses coral chips and the ph is quite stable.

Just an extra note; panda kept in the outdoor tub begins to show "flesh coloration tint under” its white skin area. I'm not sure whether this phenomenon was a result from feeding too much from the algae wall.

Hope someone can enlighten me

[bekko]

Sonny, in my limited experience, the black moors will stay black, the red-and-black telescopes will remain red-and-black for quite a while but are prone to loose the black, the red-and-black-and-white telescopes will turn grey-and-brown, and the black-and-white telescopes will turn grey-and-white. If I'm not mistaken, the metallic white is a relatively recent development in telescopes. The white could have appeared as a mutation or it could have been bought in for selective breeding from another variety. Since oranda have the same problem, maybe the white was bred into telescopes from oranda. I too am curious about the history/process. Perhaps the gene for white and the gene for the unstable blue-black are somehow linked.

-steve