Strange or not maybe.

[rigsby]

I keep my Shanjing in a four tank with a biggish water area which the rarely use , i also have a tank with four Verrucosus which are totally aquatic. Recently i noticed one of the shanjing was turning noticably dark, at first i feared there was something amiss with it but it was feeding and quite happy so i left it in with the others. Then a few weeks ago i saw it was spending more and more time in the water and about a week ago it was refusing to leave the water at all. I took it out and compaired it with my dark form of Verrucosus and it was identical , since then has been leading a totally aquatic life in the tank with them and i can't tell which one was the original shanjing.So maybe they aren't such a seperate species afterall.

 

[louise]

How old is he?

 

[freves]

That is my thought as well. Are your shanjing CB or WC?
Chip

 

[Jennewt]

Aside from the darker color, did the prominence of the orange spots also change?

 

[John]

It sounds like you have the lighter form of verrucosus and confused it with shanjing. I've see lighter form verrucosus that are almost indistinguishable from shanjing.