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Ember Tetra Colour

90FScaper

90FScaper

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I have just purchased a small batch of Ember Tetras from my lfs. They are a much brighter orange than my first batch bought from a different store! Does anyone know why this might be the case?
Thanks
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I have a little shoal.of eight and I do notice their colour goes up and down depending on what I feed them. In particular Tetra Min seems to bring the colour up.
 
I can’t get Embers to colour up in my tank.. I’ve had them from different sources but they all remained pale, despite being in a densely planted aquarium and fed good quality foods.🙁
 
They usually come pale and colour up. If the second batch came coloured up, sounds like they liked the tank they came from. It will be interesting if they keep the colour or become pale. If your orginals haven't coloured up there is something not optimum, if your running CO2 it may be a bit high for them, you could try adding oxygen at night. Good quality foods inc. live foods can help. They are a softer water species, but not super fussy so hard might be less than ideal but soft to medium ok.
 
I was a little disappointed that my Lemon Tetras weren't colouring up (apart from one). It took a good couple of months, but they seemed to colour up almost instantly after I did a bit of a rescape.
 
Hi all,
90FScaper said:
They are a much brighter orange than my first batch bought from a different store! Does anyone know why this might be the case?
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Chez_ said:
In particular Tetra Min seems to bring the colour up.
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tam said:
... If the second batch came coloured up, sounds like they liked the tank they came from. It will be interesting if they keep the colour or become pale. If your orginals haven't coloured up there is something not optimum
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Maf 2500 said:
maybe the ones at the fish shop were fed with colour enhancing food to boost the red/orange?
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Assuming they aren't in a really brightly lit tank, I think it is <"largely a food issue">. I'm going to assume that "Tetra Min" contains carotenoid pigments and these are the pigments that make Flamingos (and Salmon flesh) pink.

cheers Darrel
 
dw1305 said:
Assuming they aren't in a really brightly lit tank, I think it is <"largely a food issue">. I'm going to assume that "Tetra Min" contains carotenoid pigments and these are the pigments that make Flamingos (and Salmon flesh) pink.
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This is most likely.

Yes in almost all stores fish look quite plain. Best thing is to look if they are healthy and well fed, no visual forms of decease. Here all my fish colour up nicely with a good diet of color enhancing dry foods and frozen food also if they came from different stores with time there is no difference noticeable.
 
Hello all, I thought I would hijack this thread rather than start another. I hope that's OK.

I am about to purchase some Embers to accompany my colony of RCS.
I have bought some Fluval Bug Bites and Interpet Freeze-dried Brine Shrimp for the Embers.

Would the Embers also eat the Glasgarten Shrimp Baby food I have? I was just wondering if I could make all 3 foods "interchangeable" for both species, so to speak. I was also wondering if the Embers colour might benefit from the Shrimp food!
 
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wearsbunnyslippers said:
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I've found them! Thanks for the help 🙂
 
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