Its been 2 weeks since I got 25 cardinal tetras for my 4 foot 100 gallon planted tank. Apart from one all the rest have weak to absent red color. The blue neon band is well developed in of them. Apart from the cardinals I have 13 very red nosed rummy noses, 12 bright orange henglei rasbora, 9 pencil fishes, 5 Otos, 3 bn pleco, 2 sae and one neon gourami. Am running two filters eheim 2217 and sunsun 303b. Parameters r normal with 0 ammonia and 10 nitrate. PH is 6.4.. tank has pressurised co2 and is densely planted. I am feeding micropellets, wafers and fd blood worms and the cardinals feed well too. The color is not related to night day cycle. It's always like that 24 x7. Lfs guy says it sometimes takes weeks for them to settle down and develop color. They don't seem stressed out and no other fish s chasing them. Just can't figure this out.. am I dealing with a bad batch. Attaching some photos.
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