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is my puffer fat?
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:01 am
by petsrus6
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:36 am
by Dinsdale
Was the pic taken immediately after feeding? If it wasn't, then he's definitely a fatty.
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:00 am
by petsrus6
Well, he's a fatty then, it was taken late in the evening when I noticed, Boy, you;re FAT!!! lol
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:40 am
by Boxermom
Read the article in the library about overfeeding. Its not good for the fish.
over feeding
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:01 pm
by petsrus6
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
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:12 pm
by Hilly
Cut down on the feedings to every couple of days or so and/or reduce the portions you feed them.
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:28 pm
by kass
Maybe its eggs?
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:30 pm
by petsrus6
That would be really cool, but from what I've read no one has ever been able to breed them in tanks.
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:00 pm
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!
