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03-17-2005

Posted by LM on March 17, 2005, 4:47 pm

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Hi all,

I (well, my husband. I tried and best I could get was a blurry blob)
finally managed to get some photos of the fat SAE I've been talking about..
not the best photos to show off his portliness, since he's really hard to
take a photo since they move so fast... so these photos are the best we
could manage...

so.. is he fat or still within the "normal SAE BMI range"?

linda

http://lindamar02.tripod.com/fat_SAE/

Posted by 2pods on March 17, 2005, 5:39 pm

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> Hi all,
>
> I (well, my husband. I tried and best I could get was a blurry blob)
> finally managed to get some photos of the fat SAE I've been talking
> about..
> not the best photos to show off his portliness, since he's really hard to
> take a photo since they move so fast... so these photos are the best we
> could manage...
>
> so.. is he fat or still within the "normal SAE BMI range"?
>
> linda
>
> http://lindamar02.tripod.com/fat_SAE/
>

If that was a Platy, I'd say it was pregnant :-)
Mine are about 6 months old and are big but not as fat as that.

Peter

Posted by Tony Volk on March 17, 2005, 5:48 pm

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ROTFLMAO- he's fat!

Tony

> so.. is he fat or still within the "normal SAE BMI range"?
>
> linda
>
> http://lindamar02.tripod.com/fat_SAE/
>
>

Posted by Mean_Chlorine on March 17, 2005, 6:13 pm

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>so.. is he fat or still within the "normal SAE BMI range"?
>
>http://lindamar02.tripod.com/fat_SAE/

She certainly looks a bit, uh, big boned.

I've only seen SAE's look like that immediately after a big meal.

It seems healty, so it's not dropsy. It could be some intestinal
parasite of course, but I doubt it.

Had it been another fish I'd have suggested it might be a gravid
female, but SAE's rarely if ever spawn in home aquaria, so that seems
unlikely.

So... It may be you've got obese SAE's, yes.

Posted by Liisa Sarakontu on March 17, 2005, 11:39 pm

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>>http://lindamar02.tripod.com/fat_SAE/

> So... It may be you've got obese SAE's, yes.

Yes, I second that.

> Had it been another fish I'd have suggested it might be a gravid
> female, but SAE's rarely if ever spawn in home aquaria, so that seems
> unlikely.

Well, that isn't actually so rare. They do spawn, and even when they don't,
they can get filled with eggs. The fatter fish might be a female belly full
of eggs - and fat, too. Give them LOTS of water movement, do a huge water
change and drop the temp with 1-3 degrees (C) and see what happens. If you
see them dancing with high heads and faded side stripes, they might thing
of laying eggs.

Liisa

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