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Hello, me again with my DPs!
This time it's Borneo that gets a strange looking rather angular belly after eating. It's always on the same side, it looks strange, I don't know if I should worry or not? This started about a week ago. (Borneo is the one on the right, see the triangle bump?!)


It's really angular, but all he eats is bloodworm and he got it's first snail this week too. When he eats bloodworm, he often gets stucked with a piece of it out of it's mought and he doesn't seem able to get rid of it (he tries though1).
This other picture is not as clear but you see where on his belly that strange bump is (the second bump):


It seems to go away when he's not eating.
Bad or not?
Thanks!

Lumpy belly is a fairly common, food fills up the stomach and causes this effect. That one looks a bit of a glutton taking in quite a lot more than the other. Difficult to try and stop him taking as much especially with more than 1 puffer in the tank.

I just realised the picture is cut a little on the right. That angular bump doesn't appear on it's other side. The other side is round, that's why it worried me. The oher puffs get round bellies too, not triangle sides! Still nothing to worry?

When I feed my Abei mussel, sometimes one side lumps out and the other is flat, I wouldnt worry about it.

This happens to my guys all the time, by the next day they are just fine again.

Thanks you guys! I feel better knowing it's normal. Since I'm new to puffers, I never know if these things are normal or not. Luckily, you guys are here!

I went to see the forum from work today and realised that the pictures are not cut on the right side there! I guess my screen at home is too small! lol Need to update!

lol I need a new monitor too!!

I often found that Clooney would swell to his left side after a meal, nothing to worry about but try to offer as much variation in the diet to prevent any constipation, reaing snails and gut loading them with good veg is a way to get some roughage into them

Maybe we should do a group buy of computer screens!

I've started my snail breeding tank. Right now I have a ton of babies... will be giving them vegetables to add fibers to the puffers food! Thanks for the advise!