I don’t believe it would have anything to do with dominance or hierarchyAn update on my end from the original post (I believe it was nearly more than a year ago?)
The Orange shoulder remained "yellow-ish" for the duration of this entire year. But started a bout a week ago the fish suddenly begin color transition, the head gets blue and the body grows darker, finally looking more like an adult orange shoulder. There are two major changes to the tank during this time:
1. I began soaking nori sheets in selcon for an hour before I feed
2. Added a goldflake angel, convict tang, and a clown tang. All smaller than the OS and are mingling well with existing tank members.
Personally I am leaning towards the attributing the color shift based on selcon's nutritional benefits. But I also wonder by adding more "submissive" fish to the tank pushing the OS up in the hierarchy helps boost its confident to finally shift in color.
Thoughts?
I got mine it still had a little yellowish but the back half was starting to change to a different shade
now it will go from different shades of grey to almost jet black with a florescent orange “shoulder “
As you can see by the pictures he’s not the largest . And I would argue the yellow tang and juv emperor are the dictators of the system