Re: [Killietalk] RE: Role of vitamins in fish color

["Markus Brown" <TheBiologist at charter_net>]

Perhaps vitamins play a role in the coloration of fish, but indirectly. A 
healthy specimen will have a balance of the necessary vitamins and minerals 
for their circulatory system, allowing them to move blood faster, and more 
effectively. More blood to certain pigment cells, will change their color. 
My diapterons change colors depending on mood/fear. They are certainly most 
spectacular when the males are chasing one another around competing for the 
ladies. Its no brain twister to relate health to observed color intensity.

Markus
Chasing Big Mouth Bass in Clatsop County!

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