Improving red colours in fish

[becks]

What’s the best way to improve the red colours in fish?

I feed a variety of RS mysis, easy reef masstick, small krill, spirulina enriched brine shrimp, omega 3 enriched brine shrimp and I add vitamins to the reefsticks.

Is NLS red enhancer worth buying?

 

[eatbreakfast]

Varied diet and keep them disease free. The healthier and more stress free they are the better their colors will be.

 

[becks]

I do Quarantine and I think I’m going to start making my own food from frozen seafood having read some articles.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

LRS frozen food is about as high quality as you can buy and most of the time, cheaper than making your own. It also has ingredients that would make home made frozen really expensive.

 

[becks]

Unfortunately I can’t purchase LRS frozen food in the uk

 

[Foothill Corals]

I saw a definite improvement of color in my orange clown (that I have had for 11 years) after I started feeding P.E. Calanus. It is very small so only smaller fish will be into it. I was told it helps with orange and red colors and it seems to work.

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/frozen-calanus-blister-pack-4-oz-piscine-energetics.html

 

[becks]

I can get frozen calanus in the U.K. I’ll purchase some too

I made some diy food, all fresh

Tuna fillet steak
Mackerel
King prawns
Clams
Muscles
Nori
RS mysis

I chopped it all up finely with an electric chopper and feed the fish, the response was amazing, then I put the block in a bag and froze it

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Unfortunately I can’t purchase LRS frozen food in the uk

I think it might be a EU food importing thing, because I know he's international with his foods. It's too bad you cannot get LRS, my fish go absolutely nuts for it... to the point my clowns actually come halfway out of the water before I feed it to them.

I saw a definite improvement of color in my orange clown (that I have had for 11 years) after I started feeding P.E. Calanus. It is very small so only smaller fish will be into it. I was told it helps with orange and red colors and it seems to work.

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/frozen-calanus-blister-pack-4-oz-piscine-energetics.html

I'll have to get some of that in my rotation. I have a new coral beauty that has great colors but I wonder if the orange will pop more....

 

[K. Steven]

Anything containing red/orange pigments, like TDO and Calanus, which contain higher concentrations of astaxanthin.