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waynecc · Finger Mullet Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 11

Has anyone ever seen or heard of blue tailed red fish. We caught a few of them this past Friday.

lil-red-hunter14 · Guest

Thats just a pretty red. The younger reds will have that grayish blue tip and/or half of the tail.

chuck · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: BLUE TAILED RED FISH

Coach · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject:

yes, in the young ones. the older ones will sometimes have a blue outline. I Florida, all the reds I caught had com,pletely blue tails - diet does it
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AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

Healthy reds have blue tails, put em on a stringer and they start to lose it...same with drum ...they can be silver in colder waters and once on a stringer there stripes become more noticeable..

Matt · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject:

I see it often in the rat reds I consistently catch and release Razz

Have not seen it in a keeper though.
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AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

Heres a bull..

cant see too well but you can tell that the tail is blue...

gdavis · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:38 am Post subject:

Red's colors change when they are taken out of the water. Some will show up with really blue tails, and others will have pinkish tails. However when they get out of the water for a while they will start to turn that deep bronze color. It's normal for reds to have blue tails imo.

ROBDOG · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:46 pm Post subject:

A lot of it is the iodine in their diet.

osopup · Finger Mullet Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 22

AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

Haha pictures are worth a thousand words Wink

Could be the crab diet, Arapaima have a red tail depending on a crab diet, people turn yellow if they drink too much tomatoe juice Wink