Colour Enhancement

[Dave]

Just a general question to see what people feed their fish to enhance the colour.

 

[suemack]

just a varied diet of flake, tablets, dried foods, vegetables, frozen foods and live foods when they're available

 

[AquaUK]

Tetra Prima is a great granular food that boost the colours of tropical fish

 

[noelberg]

I feed my fish a color-enhancing flake food; along with frozen bloodworms once or twice weekly. Natural foods definitely help enhance color.

Good water conditions and a lack of stress will also help to keep colors bright.

 

[Tropjunky]

yah wot they said and just look after them properly

 

[cutechic]

TetraColor Natural Color Enhancer Tropical Flakes, and frozen foods.

 

[billy61788]

i use the same food as cutechic...the TetraColor Natural Color Enhancer Tropical Flakesalong with Hikari Tropical micro pellets

 

[guppymonkey]

I have heard that some color enhancing fish foods (the manufactured foods not natural stuff) have hormones that boost the colors. Sort of like putting the fish into mating season constantly so that their colors are more vivid. I read that kind of color enhancing food is very bad for the fish as it stressed their bodies out from being in mating season all the time. Was I reading bad info or has anyone else heard something like that?

 

[Annastasia]

just a varied diet of flake, tablets, dried foods, vegetables, frozen foods and live foods when they're available

Yep, same here.

 

[akhtar]

make sure theyre happy aswell... therye colour will be more nicer when theyre not stressed

 

[cometcattle]

Guppymonkey,

That is very interesting. Has anyone esle heard that? Sounds like an X-file.

 

[Angry_Platy]

colour enhancing flake food....dunno if it helps though...all my fish are bright colours due to the higher water temp here