Mandarin Bloat??

[gotasplinter]

was wondering if any of you have had this problem in the past. weve had our madarin for roughly 2 years, and within the last 6 months hes grown to look like he has a grape on each side of him. I dont know if hes just a PIG or something could be wrong. He acts fine. we do have a problem with bubble algea that we are working on, wonder if he has swallowed some of the bubble and its growing inside of him.(long shot). but anyway any thoughts would be great.


Thanks alot Lee

[Jay4Robin]

As long as he is eating i would not worry. They eat worms and pods not bubble algae and have a tiny mouth. If he is actign strang then try to get him out and quarantine him and medicate.

[gotasplinter]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11483869#post11483869 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jay4Robin
As long as he is eating i would not worry. They eat worms and pods not bubble algae and have a tiny mouth. If he is actign strang then try to get him out and quarantine him and medicate.
Jay, Ill try to post a pic later. He doesnt look normal, but he acts normal. like he swallowed 2 marbles one on each side, he seems to be eating, been like this for roughly six moths or so. i didnt figure he ate bubble algea and got fat off of that, but had to give that option in there :) thanks for the post Lee

[gotasplinter]

Here are a couple pics, But they are taken with our video camera. Not very good.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2505/dsc00028xz3.th.jpg (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00028xz3.jpg) http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3149/dsc00029un6.th.jpg (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00029un6.jpg)