how to keep the bright colour of fish?

[sinhotang]

how to keep the bright colour of fish?

 

[JimmyR1rider]

A lot has to do with their diets. Some flake foods have specific ingredients to enhance fishes colors.

 

[duromega]

good diet
no bully tank mates
and of course good water parameters

 

[oh207]

I feed NLS

 

[Dre]

Fresh Natural foods.

 

[Ledreef]

 

[FlyPenFly]

live food, good lights with lots of whites and a broad spectrum light. Shining blue/royal blue LEDs all day on fish make them look like a red light district hooker.

 

[FlyPenFly]

Light nooot. Help whit color for the fish. Fish don't need light

You need light to see the fish. If you don't have a broad spectrum light your fish will look crappy

 

[thirty6]

Nop

I can see the color from my fish in the dark

View attachment 147855 from the dark

you have some great looking fish. how long have the two tangs been together for? I have one that drives me nuts sometimes as i went weeks thinking something was wrong with it and in fact it was perfectly fine

 

[thirty6]

Fresh Natural foods.

DRE,

what do you use? i feed frozen and pellets and algae sheets. i have tried rods before, fish went crazy for it. thinking of getting different type this time
any live foods?

 

[Ledreef]

My blue hippo is female e male I have for more than 1 yr

 

[Ledreef]

1 single cube of froze Bryan per day for 34 fish

Brine *

 

[Dre]

DRE,

what do you use? i feed frozen and pellets and algae sheets. i have tried rods before, fish went crazy for it. thinking of getting different type this time
any live foods?

Siversides, shrimps, clams, fish eggs, baby octopus which is readily available at fish markets throught out Chinatown and much cheaper than the store brand. Green and purple algae sheet, spirulina flakes and pellets sometimes. When the fish eat natural foods it take a longer time to digest. In other words, the fish stay full longer.

 

[Dre]

Brine *

You should take some time and read up on the nutritional value of brine. You will have a brighter picture if you do a little research. You might cut back or stop using it to feed salt water fish entirely.

 

[JimmyR1rider]

You should take some time and read up on the nutritional value of brine. You will have a brighter picture if you do a little research. You might cut back or stop using it to feed salt water fish entirely.

+1

I always refer to them like potato chips for fish. No real nutritional value compared to many other foods out there.

 

[albano]

1 single cube of froze Bryan per day for 34 fish

Brine *

You're starving your fish!

 

[lnevo]

I have orange line chromis that have lost their orange line. I read that they need vitamins to maintain that color and ive supplemented vitamin-c and vitachem but the lines no more... Anyone else with experience with these?

 

[oh207]

Here is my 2 cents. Very broad question but I think the amount fed is all dependant on the number of livestock, nutrient export in place, and filtration.
I feed once a day a mix of flakes and NLS pellets from an automatic Eheim feeder. Livestock includes 3 clowns, 1 flame angel, 2 henionchus butterfly, 1 lawnmower blenny, 1 bi-color blenny, 1 cardinal, 1 yellow tang. The fishes seem to know when its feeding time because a few minutes before they all get excited and gather around where the food falls into the tank. Twice a week I will place half a strip of green algae for the yellow tang and the butterfly fishes. They go crazy over it. And on Saturday I will feed 1 cube of PE mysis and spirulina brine. And every other week I feed a piece of Rods food.

 

[Dre]

Here is my 2 cents. Very broad question but I think the amount fed is all dependant on the number of livestock, nutrient export in place, and filtration.
I feed once a day a mix of flakes and NLS pellets from an automatic Eheim feeder. Livestock includes 3 clowns, 1 flame angel, 2 henionchus butterfly, 1 lawnmower blenny, 1 bi-color blenny, 1 cardinal, 1 yellow tang. The fishes seem to know when its feeding time because a few minutes before they all get excited and gather around where the food falls into the tank. Twice a week I will place half a strip of green algae for the yellow tang and the butterfly fishes. They go crazy over it. And on Saturday I will feed 1 cube of PE mysis and spirulina brine. And every other week I feed a piece of Rods food.

The question was, how to keep the bright color of fish? It depends on what you feed to who and the ecosystem the fish is kept in. A yellow belly damsele for example . in an established tank could go for months without food feed to it and you couldn't tell the difference. If i was to feed brine to a yellow tang several times a day it would start to turn white. Know what and how you're fish eat in the wild...

 

[Ledreef]

I hate fat fish.