Bringing out the colour

[dr_sudz]

What types of food do you feed your arowanas to bring out the most colour in them?

 

[Boydo]

market prawns injected with Kent Zeo. new life spectrum pellets are probably the best pellet available, i perfer the prawn myself.

 

[dr_sudz]

What about feeding crickets, and meal worms. Is this mainly good for nutrition?

 

[RE TurboII]

i use hikari cichlid gold and my old aro was really nice in color

dont mind the tore up fins. the oscars got him one night but i got rid of them and his fins were perfect in a week. i miss that guy R.I.P

 

[dodgefreak8]

hands down the best food I have found for color is frozen krill. You need to make sure they have a variety though

 

[shwag]

yeah i agree that krill is really good for brining out colors mostly reds but oishi is some good stuff as far as pellets go, but they are really small in size and i've only seen one size bag

 

[kriztu]

prawns and crickets gut loaded with lots of carotene rich food do quite well

 

[IoStrisciare]

beta carotene enhances the red color...
mussels helps in yellow...

for greens and blues i'm not so sure..

 

[zennzzo]

Prawns loaded with floating Hikari pelets, f/d krill, crickets and meaLworms...does the trick

 

[Snapper]

Well, the best is to give a variety of enerything to ensure it has a balanced diet. But frankly, i think 90% of its colour potential comes from its genes.