FAT Green Mandarin

[David MC Lee]

I think my green mandarin is obese?
This is not the best pic.
She has been they way for months now so I think she is alright.



This pic looks a little better.

[medic29]

wooow. I thought mine was chunky! lol

[webbstock]

Wow,

I would suspect some sort of tumor or if it is an older female perhaps a reproductive issue. I know with freshwater fish that in old females the eggs etc. kinda "crystalize" and cause an obvious bulge. In my old lab, we used Zebrafish for some studies and one of our old females did the same thing. (One of the grad students at the time scooped her up and squeezed her and a large amount of "crystalized" eggs came out and she looked normal...plus she lived another 3-4 months, however I don't recommend doing that).

[David MC Lee]

Its a female.

[webbstock]

I was also thinking that it could be a sign of bacterial infection like dropsy or M. marinum. Or just a fat fish...

[marcsmith73]

Just looks like a fat happy Mandarin. good for you! =)

[David MC Lee]

She acts normal. Spend all day going around the reef eating stuff. Fins look good, color looks good.

[panaboy95]

wow that is a chubby fish. nice to here of one of these getting too much to eat. all you ever here is how someone puts on in a 20 gallon tank and wonder why it died.

[dcombs44]

Geez....and I was proud of how plump mine had gotten.

[David MC Lee]

My fear is some night I will hear a pop sound from the fish tank.

[fatheadfisheye]

does she eat mysis or any other type of prepared food or just pods?

[David MC Lee]

Just pods

[Reefdiver72]

Do you have a pod growing tank the way shes eating you might not have anyleft LOL. Nice fat happy fish I have a copperband I loan out to keep that way all he eats is aptasia. he will eat mysis if real hungry.