Color of the Discus

[ChienHsu]

Hi!

I have a crazy thought:

Can we feed some kind of the foods so that the discus will change the color?

Chien

[Carol_Roberts]

Yes, you can enhance the red in your discus by feeding red colored foods. Hikari makes a red discus pellet and tetra bits are red.
Carol :heart1:

HI Chein: The answer is yes. I've been doing some research on discus diet for a few years. The Asian breeders are very good in using natural products like vegetables to turn the colour of a discus. If you feed them at a certain stage of a discus life and the color will stay. They're not hormone. Just vegetables.
This one is feed with Red Yeen Choi. at 2" and Azoo.
http://a5.cpimg.com/image/5B/EA/11443035-ee79-028001E0-.jpgURL
This one came from the same brood. He was fed Red pepper powder and tetrabits.
http://a1.cpimg.com/image/BF/F5/11443391-b126-028001E0-.jpgURL
You can compare and see the differences. HTH

Jimmy

[April]

great pics....Jimmy.
hows that breeding going?
where do you get your azoo?

Hi April: I just pick them up from LFS. The Chinese owner just buys them up from the wholesaler in Toronto. They're not that popular like tetrabits. Right now I only breed on demand. I breed for friends who never have experience of raising fry and willing to except the whole brood. They'll pick them up the first day I separate them from their parents.

Jimmy.

[ChienHsu]

Hi! Jimmy:

Thanks for the info. Do you mean to mix the vegetables into the processed food or just feed them the vegetable directly.

Chien

Chein:
The vegetables are part of the ingredients of the beef heart mix. First you boil the vegetables and chop it into pieces before mixing. HTH
Jimmy

[cobalt]

I add to my feed mix Red sweet Paprica for the antocyanines color the fish a nice red.
also give rolled oats (a bit) so that the thiamine can be turned into blue.
look on the net there is a lot of material about natural color enhancement
Cobalt

[taybelZ]

JimmyL,
i like those picture comparision shots.
just wondering AZOO as in the commercial food company?
Its avaliable in Australia.. tho not much selection which product was used Jim?

[ChienHsu]

Hi! Cobalt:

Can you tell me the name of the web(s) which has(have) about natural color enhancement.

Thanks

Chien

[cobalt]

I heard about the subject in a course on fish nutrition i will ask the proffesor when i see him.
Cobalt

[hunterbeav]

NaturaRose is a color enhanser you add to your beefheart mix brings out the red coloration also Spirulina powder boost the immune systems of your fish and brightens colors in your fish also add this to your beefheart mix. http://www.artemia-international.com/price_list.html oh bye the way 500g = 1 lb :)

[Cowboy]

I was talking to Cary the other night and he told me that feeding for red coloration will cause yellow discus to turn orange. (I hope I got that right). This was news to me so I thought I'd pass that along for anyone else that didn't know this.
Todd

[cobalt]

Yup
I thought that everbody new that pigment astaxantine (active stuff in natrurose) turns good looking lemon like discus into pale pidgeon blood.
thanks for bringing it up.

[Ajdiscuss]

This is my Super Malboro.


http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/b80d5c25/bc/Cpj+Collection/Dsc00649.jpg?bcUHG99A3FWq3J83

They are feed with natural booter. I also feed with Tetra "RED".


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