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I've recently noticed that my smalltooth whiptail, pentapodus caninus, fades almost entirely to a whiteish colour with random brown splotches at night; I actually thought the fish was dead the first time I saw it. But the fish is fine; it resumes normal colouration within a few seconds of the lights coming on in the morning.
None of my other fish show such dramatic transitions to diurnal conditions, including the matted filefish, which has an interesting camo pattern at night. Does anyone have a reason why it adopts this interesting colouration? It sleeps on the sand -- is it attempting to colour match for camouflage?
None of my other fish show such dramatic transitions to diurnal conditions, including the matted filefish, which has an interesting camo pattern at night. Does anyone have a reason why it adopts this interesting colouration? It sleeps on the sand -- is it attempting to colour match for camouflage?