My fish are turning pink, is that a bad thing?

[Mac Cool]

I have a white betta with two rasbora hets as tank mates. They are all
slowly turning reddish pink. I don't know if it's the food or something
bad. The water tests fine. I feed them 3 types of food:
Omega One Betta Buffet
Ginger Betta Pellets (with natural color enhancers)
Live Daphnia

I mix it up, feeding them flakes 4-5x/wk and pellets 2x/wk and a few
daphnia every day. The betta, Rocky, will eat anything but he is fond of
the pellets while the hets seem to prefer the flakes. I suspect the
pellets are too big and crunchy for the hets. They all love the daphnia of
course. My wife found a daphnia in the outdoor tank that was so large the
het couldn't eat it and swam around with it in his lips for several
minutes.

I was concerned because my indoor daphnia tend to be reddish and I'm told
it's because of poor water quality although they are thriving.

The betta has red fins so he looks fine turning pinkish red but the hets
were shiny silver and I don't really care for them looking pink.

Nothing in the tank is pink or red so they aren't matching their
surroundings.
-
Mac Cool

[swarvegorilla]

hets? explain....
The white betta is colouring up. Look on the foods to try spot the
ingredient astaxathine..... that colours fish the quickest.
Are you sure the daphnia are daphnia is my next question? Large one sounds
bigger than mosquito larvae!
Excellent food tho, no wonder the colours are coming out.




"Mac Cool" > wrote in message
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>I have a white betta with two rasbora hets as tank mates. They are all
> slowly turning reddish pink. I don't know if it's the food or something
> bad. The water tests fine. I feed them 3 types of food:
> Omega One Betta Buffet
> Ginger Betta Pellets (with natural color enhancers)
> Live Daphnia
>
> I mix it up, feeding them flakes 4-5x/wk and pellets 2x/wk and a few
> daphnia every day. The betta, Rocky, will eat anything but he is fond of
> the pellets while the hets seem to prefer the flakes. I suspect the
> pellets are too big and crunchy for the hets. They all love the daphnia of
> course. My wife found a daphnia in the outdoor tank that was so large the
> het couldn't eat it and swam around with it in his lips for several
> minutes.
>
> I was concerned because my indoor daphnia tend to be reddish and I'm told
> it's because of poor water quality although they are thriving.
>
> The betta has red fins so he looks fine turning pinkish red but the hets
> were shiny silver and I don't really care for them looking pink.
>
> Nothing in the tank is pink or red so they aren't matching their
> surroundings.
> -
> Mac Cool