The bright, bright orange is due to the tank lighting - I added on a T12 lighting strip in addition to the T8 strip already there (18" is too wide for one strip to light the whole tank, and my fish love to swim in the area not lit by the one strip) and that bulb is some sort of plant bulb that adds a bit of purple to the light - and it makes anything remotely orange colored really pop! It's amazing - the saulosi females are yellow under the T8 and orange under the T12. If both bulbs were the same spectrum it would be better - I'll have to check if I can get a regular T12 at Wal-Mart. Trouble with keeping the purple is that I'd have to get a planted tank T8 and those are more expensive - kind of pointless for an mbuna tank too!
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