yep the photo appeared ))) you cant never really tell what color they will end up, but yours does tend to look more bronze than red. I personally like the color, it looks natural. and I have had one similar myself a few yrs back.
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mine are very red - and I learned on this board there are ingredients in the food you can look for that enhance color. In this thread (about page 4 or so) explains it. I would attribute my O's 'redness' to their genetics as well as their diet.
My red has been labeled "Bronze" and no matter how much Hikari colour enhanced i give to him, he stays bronze-orange coloured...
It's it's natural appearance, and as you can see it's a totally different red colour as on my tiger.
just feed a varied diet and their best colour will come out eventualy!
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pristine water and varied foods will make your fish healthy.
a healthy fish will always have vibrant color... later on,
you will find his true color....
Thanks everyone for your nice comments. He's just attitude plus as you'll see from the video if it appears - Can you tell I'm new at this technology lol
Once again guys thank you very much for all your nice comments about Felix. I know he would just love you all.
I wasn't complaining about his colour, just wondered if the hikari gold would make him more red or just enhance the golden colour he already is. I like his colour too. He can go a beautiful dark bronze to a nice copper colour. He also gets along most of the time with everyone else in his little world - except for me. I think he hates me at the moment. We just moved house. You'll notice a small mark on 1 of his sides which is more than likely from the crayfish but he will torment her. That mark will go away in about a week. But, he shares his world with 2 clown loaches, a pleco, 3 silver dollars and the crayfish. when they all get bigger, I'll be moving things around into other tanks. Hopefully a better video this time where you won't have to turn your monitor sideways.
sometimes when fish get stressed they loose there colar my red parrot was being chased around and he lost his pure orange colar for a while then when everything was fine he gained his pure orange colar back unfortunintly he gets stressed easly
