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i have a female glowlight that stomach looks very bloated.
Her colour is all good and she doesnt seem affected by it.
just wondering is she getting more than her fair share of food or she maybe ready to lay eggs?

When Tetras of many kinds are getting ready to release their eggs they can get quite large. There is however, the problem that sometimes they become egg bound and die. There really is nothing you can do about this, and it is troublingly common....

Also, a case of Dropsy will also cause the fish to look very fat and round. In small Tetras the size of Glowlights it can be extremely hard to see their tiny scales sticking up so Dropsy often goes undiagnosed. Of course, once the fish reaches the beach ball, pine-coning stage there is nothing you can really do about it either...

Hopefully your Tetra has neither of these problems and is simply a good egg producer. I don't remember how to tell if Glowlights are male or female, but if it's possible, that might be a good way to start trying to figure out what is really going on.

Good luck!
L.

i presume she was full of eggs cause the belly dissappeared over night. and with the amount of night time feeders i got there is little chance they survived...

Very often i see my Rummynose Tetra';s full of eggs & very fat, but in the morning, she'll be normal again & i think that she released the eggs, but unfortunatly got eaten by my Corydoras.


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i presume she was full of eggs cause the belly dissappeared over night. and with the amount of night time feeders i got there is little chance they survived...

It actually sounds like "she" just ate a lot of food. My Tetras were always fat one day after feeding and skinny again the next morning. Besides, Glowlights don't breed at night... Aren't they usually morning spawners?

Well really my point is you can't know that she was egg bound...the only thing that happened was the fish was fat and then it wasn't fat the next morning... there isn't any proof it was eggs...did you happen to feed a lot that day? Or was she getting gradually fat over a period of time?


Last edited by Tetra Fan at 17-Oct-2005 07:37

Tip.

If you can, feed small amounts often. That way, your fish don't gorge on one big meal a day, and any additional roundness rapidly becomes apparent as possible spawning ripeness.

My motley crew are fed at least 4 times a day. Controlled amounts each time. Also makes the fish happier because they don't eat big lots at one sitting in the wild, rather they get what they can when they can, and are adapted to this kind of feeding pattern. Feed small amounts often and they have reasonable fullness of belly without being bloated. Any fullness of outline over and above this and you know with that feeding régime that you have potential spawners on your hands.


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It has been my experience (not that I'll admit it happens at all anymore ) that when a fish overeats it normally shows some kind of other problem to go along with it's full belly. It swims a little wobbly, it's hiding, it looks uncomfortable, etc.....

Tetra Fan is right, Glowlights are known to tend to spawn in the morning- but their morning is not necessarily our morning and it all depends on what time you get up!!

L.