"the color enhancing feed from Aquamax"
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Cecil, can you elaborate on this. Is it Koi food? Ric's right. Beautiful fish!
Found out about it from Dr. Mark Griffith or Griffin? of Aquamax at the convention. (Aquamax grower AX 5D19.)
I was able to order it through my Aquamax dealer just like the other feed as soon as I got home. It has an ingredient known as "astaxanthin" added to the feed, which is primarily used for trout growers to give the trout flesh a red color, which makes it look more appealing at the fish counter and on the plate. (Mimics wild caught trout and salmon flesh that naturally have carotin in their diets from micro and macro crusteaceans and organisms that feed on those crusteaceans.
According to Dr. Griffith it also enhances the reds on the outside of brook trout and I have been told this by other growers.
Anyway the cost was only a couple of bucks more a bag (if my memory serves me correct) and the pellet size is in between a 5D05 and a 5D06. Supposed to take about 90 days to have full effect, but I have been feeding it since mid July and I already notice a difference the outside. Of course I probably overfeed my fish so that may have something to do with the faster effect.
