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While your goldfish may not turn completely white without any light whatsoever, they may become much paler. Goldfish do change colour as a response to light levels as they have chromatophores which produce the pigments that give colouration, or reflect light.
They do get some of their colouration from the types of food they eat as some of the food may contain pigments called carotenoids, or the food has had a pigment called canthaxanthin added to it.
So some folks say. I prefer to keep my fish happy and give them as near to natural conditions as possible.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 6y agoI have read that goldfish loose colour if they are kept in the dark for a long time. If you wish your Goldfish to be healthy you will try to imagine how you would feel if you were kept in a small dark place permanently and never got to see the daylight. Come on. Do the right thing by your fish. Put it/them in a sensible sized tank with live plants and proper lighting. The basic rules are :- 1 inch of fish needs at least 1 gallon of water. :- Every tank needs a permanently running cycled filter. :- Every tank needs at least 50% of its water replaced every week. If you are keeping your fish at the right temperature and feeding them correctly and also follow the above rules, your fish stand a chance of doing OK. If you are failing in any of the above rules I can guarantee that your fish will have constant health problems.
It will go much paler but not completely white.
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∙ 14y agoSo it has been reported. I guess you or I would get pale and may even suffer both psychologically and physically from light deprivation if we were kept permanently in the dark. I have never seen this happen to a Goldfish but I would not be cruel enough to even countenence keeping a living creature with normal light requirements in the dark permanently.
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∙ 14y agoIt has been reported that this will happen. I have never seen it happen but I would not be cruel enough to keep a normal light needing creature in the dark for the months or years it would take for this to occur.
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∙ 14y agoNo, they don't because there skin is gold and it cannot turn white.
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∙ 14y agoit grows maassive
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If you kept a goldfish in a dark room would it turn white?
The short answer to this question is 'probably not white, though the color will become much paler'.
Does a fish turn white in the dark?
goldfish do
Why do goldfish turn white?
the lack of light being in the dark
Why would a goldfish turn white if left in the dark?
Yes!
What will happen if a Goldfish is kept in a dark place?
Goldfish usually react positively to having a light source, however it is unhealthy to leave your fish tank illuminated constantly and the light also encourages algae to grow rapidly. Eight to twelve hours a day is sufficient for a happy goldfish.
How do goldfish react to being placed directly under a lamp?
If a goldfish is kept in the dark it will appear lighter in the morning, So if left in the dark for a long period of time, a goldfish will turn almost white. If kept in the light, it will absorb color, and often become a brighter gold. (almost the same as when we tan, the sun gives us color, and when we get less of it we turn whiter, or lighter)
What will happen If you keep a goldfish in a dark room?
It will eventually turn white.
How dark does a room have to be for goldfish to turn white?
Very dark, all the time, but truthfully it isn't healthy for the goldfish to be subjected to such conditions and it is just plain cruel to force a goldfish to stay in a dark room all the time.
What color will a goldfish turn in the dark?
Goldfish are not particularly attracted to any one colour.
What happens to a goldfish that is left in the dark?
It will turn white, or at least will start having some loss of color.
If you keep a goldfish in a dask room would it turn eventually white?
It has been reported that goldfish will loose colour if kept in low light conditions so I guess if you are silly enough to want to not see your fish and keep them (it) in the dark to find out if it goes white that is your right.
How long will it take to turn a goldfish white?
When ever you don't feed him or her.
