Great photo, but is he really this red? never seen one this red...

Stefan, why the name change?

I would love some fry from him.

I call my self stiffe in all the other forum´s so I thought that it would be easyer to do it here to

Great photo, but is he really this red?
Thanks, yes he is he likes Astaxanthin ;)

That's fine. I was just wondering.

you really feed him Astaxanthin?

I had to look that one(astaxanthin) up, never heard of it.
For others that might not know here's what I found....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astaxanthin

Stefan, how do you give it to your fish? What form and how much?

Bip, they do sell some color enhansing foods that use different fish hormones to produce the enhancement int he color, but I have not heard of astaxanthin being used.

Thanks again for the info Tang. Hopefully Stefan will share his 'secret' with us as to how he does it/where he finds it ect.

Bip it is in omega one fish foods which I use & love it

Thanks Vince. That's good news, I use Omega One also. I like it's results and the fish go crazy for it. Win-Win.

Omega one and O.S.I. i use both so they have a little variety

Her you go, you can buy astaansanin powder on kens fish annd it to flakes and pellets and it will male red fish or orange color fish redder than you could ever imagine . Its not a hormone. Its tha bomb if you guys own hongi or srt you should try it .Regular hongi will look like SRT and SRT will be insane red. 2009 Breeder Top Secret. Enjoy

I didn't think this fish even was a "red" fish

hmmmm might have to try this, but i dont want to take away from what the fish should really look like just my opinion.

I agree Christian, which is why I stopped using anything with "color enhansing"... natrose was one that I found quite a bit, but didn't want to alter anything that would be considered "natural"

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1696

Thats not what its like, see its like feeding fish with blues and yellows 100% spirulina it brings out the way the fish is suppose to look its natural potential. In the wild they graze all day mbuna that is. Its natural

its more of an orange color

hmmm... and do they fare well with peacocks?

I use NatuRose Astaxanthin in my "shrimpmix" and it´s very common i Sweden http://www.ciklider.se/artiklar/mp_rakmix.shtml
Here you can see the recipie but I don´t know if it´s available in english if not you can use a translater ;)

In Sweden this color of the speices called Labeotropheus trewavasae Chilumba "occra" but I don´t know if it´s a wild form or if it´s come out from breeding .

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1696

Astaxanthin hot up everthing thats red or yellow in and here you can read some more about it
http://naturose.com/astaxanthin.html

http://www.ciklid.org/artregister/artreg_visa_art_fangstplats.php?ID=745&fangstplats=Chilumba&fp=02

awesome camera quality:)
i use omega one too...and nutrafin

Omega one is a new one for me I don´t heard of anyone in sweden who use it.
What does it do?

it makes the color of the fish better..it does really.....my goldfish and cichlids go crazy for it.....Really good meal for them..I mix goldfish flakes with the cichlid food ..

i have used omega one for just about 2 weeks and have already seen a huge difference.

i know isnt it awesome!........i also use tetracolor cichlid granules...but its nothing compared to omega....Nutrafin is awesome too..but its big so uhave to mash it.

My fish won't eat the Omega One :(

pam, maybe you could try mixing it in with the food that they do eat

Pamela yes they will. Just fast them. Then feed it to them. They will not turn down food if hungry..

If all this is true, then what is the difference between this food additive and a hormone. If you are a breeder and you sell someone a fish, their fish would look nothing like yours unless you also fed the same additive, or an adult purchased would lose color soon thereafter.