Help with my Red Devil???

Question

It lost its color so now it doesnt look red anymore. Is there anything I can do to get the colors back?

Answer 1

That's normal. Mine's almost white, with little orange "eyeliner" around his eyes. You can try feeding some shrimp, just salad or cocktail shrimp a few times a week. I buy the frozen kind, just thaw it in some tank water in a bowl before feeding. Cut it up a little. He'll love it too. There's also color enhancing pellets/flakes. I don't think that'll bring back the peachy orange color though. Here's some links on them, you can see their color varies a bit. But I do believe from what I've mostly read/heard, they get a pale/white color with peachy undertones. And also, another thing I've heard quite a bit, there was a lot of cross breeding with the Midas cichlid and Red Devils, and alot of times they're mislabeled as Red Devils and they're Midas's. It's pretty much gotten to where it's hard to tell the difference. Someone told me you can tell by the mouth. One has thinner lips then the other. I just call mine the Red Devil/Midas guy :)

http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10cichlid_reddevil.htm

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/374.htm

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/496.htm

Answer 2

Aren't Red Devils cichlids? Anyway, it is completely normal for Red Devils to lose their color and get lighter or get white or black patches on them, however, poor water quality can change their color too, so to be on the safe side, test your water. To maintain the best color feed them some live food and Hikari Cichlid Gold Pellets.

Answer 3

When red devils get larger they tend to fade in colour to a washed kind of pinky. This is normal. You can feed it colour enhancing flake food but devils that are larger prefer live or pellet type food.

Answer 4

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