Re: Are wide fish a health concern or just overfed?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:14 am
It's kinda weird, I don't usually look at my fish from the top, but from the side it looks normal.coltin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:41 pm I'd love to get a better look at your cherry barb, but based on the photos, I'm going to take a guess that it's a male given its red coloration - female cherry barbs tend to be brown.
A couple of things to check: are the scales protruding from the sides of its body? Is it eating as usual? What about its poop - is it looking normal?
If it's stopped eating and its scales are sticking out, that's a bad sign - it might have an internal bacterial infection, also known as dropsy, and unfortunately, that's usually fatal.
It's eating fine, no issues there.
The water's clear, no cloudiness or anything.
I've got a waterfall filter on the tank, and to be honest, I don't clean it that often. I'm worried about messing up the bacteria in the substrate, so I only clean it when it gets clogged with algae and poop.