Originally Posted By: snrub
Originally Posted By: DonoBBD
With my experience with tropical fish, as well as our pond fish over the years the sun will darken the fish colours as well as the fish food.

With tropical fish the food with more reds in it will bring out the colour of the fish. I don't know what is in the red foods or the blood worms but man will it colour up a fish.

Cheers Don.


White flamingos and pink flamingos are the same bird. The difference is the pink ones have eaten a lot of brine shrimp and that is what gives the birds the pink feathers. The red coloration in the brine shrimp.


There you go. That makes sense to me now. I knew about the flamingo and that it was their food that changed their colour but didn't know it was the brine shrimp.

We fed large pickle jars of brine shrimp to our angel fish fry just after hatching. I am sure the red food was brine shrimp base too.

Thanks for connecting the dots for me.

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