is my puffer fat?

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petsrus6
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is my puffer fat?

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he sure looks it compared to the others. http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m18/ ... ferfat.jpg
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Was the pic taken immediately after feeding? If it wasn't, then he's definitely a fatty.
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Well, he's a fatty then, it was taken late in the evening when I noticed, Boy, you;re FAT!!! lol
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Read the article in the library about overfeeding. Its not good for the fish.
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over feeding

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I really didn't think I was, they are very picky eaters and only eat frozen bloodworms, frozen krill, and sometimes snails. I only feed them once a day, and only one is that fat, the others are normal. Kind of hard to seperate fish to feed them, LOL
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Cut down on the feedings to every couple of days or so and/or reduce the portions you feed them.
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Post by kass »

Maybe its eggs?
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That would be really cool, but from what I've read no one has ever been able to breed them in tanks.
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Post by Myaj »

No one has successfully raised fry..

But there have been cases of females filling up with eggs and purging them ocassionally, maybe even eggs being fertilized and hatching, I think the biggest problem was getting the fry to survive though.

So it very well could be a female carrying eggs... But either way its an awfully fat puffer!
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