Re: Agassizii Yellow tail turns Orange-Red

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>]

Jerry,

As I say over & over, color means nothing in apisto ID. My guess is that you have
been using a lot of food, like brine shrimp, that has red color enhancers. That
will turn most yellow pigment red. If fed on a lot of algae flakes & other foods
that don't produce red, I imagine that your aggies will turn yellow again. Now
the question is: were your original aggies truly red aggies or only red color
enhanced aggies? ;-)

Mike Wise

Mike Wise

JerrCarol@aol.com wrote:

> Question folks,
>   was I taken or what? I bought a pair of yellow tail Aggies about a month
> ago at one of my LFS's.
>
>   They spawned a couple weeks after I had them and them seem to be doing real
> well. So well, that the male has actually just about doubled in size. He now
> looks just like my other male double red. Only problem with that was when I
> first bought them it was because they were different. He had a very Yellow
> tail. Now his tail is almost red more orange-red like the double red. Was
> this ever really a yellow tail? Do you think someone has taken to dying Aggie
> tails or something?
>   Just curious?
>                                                               JerryB
>
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