foods for color enhancement?

[Leviathan_XE]

I posted this question in the reef discussion forum but it didn't get much of a response. I'm asking for fish in general but I came up with the question because of some newly aquired clowns. When I first got them they seemed amazingly bright, but since that time their color seemed to fade a little. It's not a health problem, they've been in OT going on 4 weeks now and they are much more lively than when I first got them. I feed them a variety of foods same as all my fish(Form 1 pellet & flake, From 2 pellet, Brine shrimp plus flake, Cyclopeeze frozen & flake, Spirulina Brine, Mysis, bloodworms, daphina, with zoecon or selcon. But I'm wondering is there a particular food that anyone is feeding where they noticed a marked improvment in color? Something that I can add to the mix.
I did get one endorsment for Rod's Reef food, has anyone here noticed color improvment from this or anything else they can think of?

 

[Eklikewhoa]

I feed my onyx NewLifeSpectrum which I have used on various other fish and have seen a great deal of improvement.

I just recently obtained some of Rod's Reef food and it does drive them nuts but too early to know if it effects them any.

Had Robert Di Marco give a presentation for out local club and he states that cyclopeeze works.

 

[cbowman]

I noticed a great increase of orange in my percs when i fed them mostly cyclopeeze. It has some sort of carotene or something, i dont remember the exact word that adds to their pigmentation and makes them a prettier brighter orange, i fed them cyclopeeze every other day and then regular food the other days, i saw an increase in about a week and half.

 

[magellan007]

my clownfish eats cyclopeeze(sometimes garlic pellet) and meaty items (squid, shrimp, etc.) She has darkened considerably, but she's a maroon, so it's expected. I wouldn't worry if the colors change as long as you have them on a good diet. A trip to the local asian store for some fresh seafood to freeze would be an excellent, inexpensive solution.

 

[DesigDiver]

i heard ORA Glo was suppose to be really good..

 

[magellan007]

When in doubt, feed them what they'd eat in the wild. I doubt there are arctic reef fish eating cyclopeeze at the north pole, lmao.

 

[bencozzy]

anything with astaxanthin in it will enhance color.

canthaxanthin too.

plus beta carotene but to a much lower degree. astaxanthin is the major player here.

ora glo worked wonders on making my FW ramshorn snails a dark red probable due to the paprika.

 

[lr1001]

I have noticed that the dry cyclops really gives the my young clowns some serious deep orange color. It is quite dramatic to the point that the developing white stripes almost seen electric contrasting with the more dramatic orange. So yes, the food does make a difference for the juvenile fish IMO.

 

[Bmgrocks]

Cyclops contains a variety of caretioniods, they enhance reds, yellow, and orange pigments. Its a form of vitamin a, better known as beta carotine.

Spirulina, the blue green algae enhances blues, and greens

and anxstnastin (sp.) enhances your yellows

these additives are all natural, and simply, as stated enhance color pigments in fish, by concentrating the strain of vitamin a.

 

[block head]

just look at the difference between wild salmon and farmed salmon flesh ,pink vs white