Weeble Zebra

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:30 am

So one of my Zebras is ballooning up like crazy. I'm sure it's not illness - it's still lookin' fine and eatin' like a hog. I'd upped water changes a lil' on their tank so I vaguely hope that it might be that this one is female and becoming gravid in response.

It kinda almost looks like it's becoming a Weeble

The underside is visibly lifting the body up from the bottom of the tank.

Does anyone have any good pics of a gravid female from below and from the side? Or does this sound like a gravid female?

smithrc · Post by **smithrc** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:04 am

generally a gravid female 'sweels' relativly evenly, like blowing up a balloon.

If the swelling is isolated to one area its normally bad... eg if the body is normal but the belly is bluging

deos that make sense?

crazie.eddie · Post by **crazie.eddie** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:14 pm

Maybe provide a pic of it's underside and top view?

Post by **Barbie** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:25 pm

Males also tend to store up reserves before spawning season in order to allow them to stay all that time with the eggs without coming out to eat and what not. Here's a pic of my dominant male a month or two before they started spawning the first time.

The females will look more round behind the pectoral fins, but have the same weeblish underline.

Barbie

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:37 pm

I'll definitely haveta get a pic.

I should be moving some tanks around, including the tank the Zebras are in, over the next few days so there should be an opportunity.

Jojoyojimbi · Post by **Jojoyojimbi** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:13 pm

they weeble and they wobble but they don't fall down

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:56 am

n00dl3 · Post by **n00dl3** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:26 am

Wow.. he is going to explode... I think it is time for him to spawn just like barbie say..

blueblue · Post by **blueblue** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:46 am

He is just a fat male zebra ^.^
my alpha male also looks like that, very strong and fat

Edlund · Post by **Edlund** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:16 pm

thats was a big one hehe