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illustrae   Fish Addict Posts: 820 Kudos: 876 Registered: 04-May-2005   | So, I have a feamle betta in a 5 gal. tank. She's been there for about two months now, and for 6 of those 8 weeks she's had a belly full of eggs and a little ovipositor sticking out. But it's been six weeks... shouldn't she have dropped the eggs or absorbed them or something by now? She seems happy and healthy, very active and eating heartily. Should I worry? Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean... |
 Posted 03-Mar-2006 21:10 |      |
Callatya       Moderator The girl's got crabs! Posts: 9662 Kudos: 5261 Registered: 16-Sep-2001   | nope. the ovipositor will always be visible, so don't worry about that.  the eggs will always be there as long as she is healthy and in a breeding fr The only time you have to worry is if she swells up like she has swallowed a pea, then you can start to think of ways to convince her to drop eggs, but otherwise its not a drama perfectly natural (BTW, I think gravid may be the wrong word, thats primarily used for fish that give birth to live young. Eggla |
| Posted 05-Mar-2006 15:59 |  |
| illustrae Fish Addict Posts: 820 Kudos: 876 Registered: 04-May-2005 | Well that's good to know. (Y'know, I actually looked up gravid on dictionary.com and it does specifically refer to livebearers, but also included egg-laying fish. I figured you guys would know what I meant.  )Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean... |
| Posted 06-Mar-2006 17:51 | |
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