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Weeble Zebra
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:30 am
by Pete
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?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:04 am
by smithrc
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?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:14 pm
by crazie.eddie
Maybe provide a pic of it's underside and top view?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:25 pm
by Barbie
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
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:37 pm
by Pete
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.
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:13 pm
by Jojoyojimbi
they weeble and they wobble but they don't fall down
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:56 am
by Pete
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:26 am
by n00dl3
Wow.. he is going to explode... I think it is time for him to spawn just like barbie say..
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:46 am
by blueblue
He is just a fat male zebra ^.^
my alpha male also looks like that, very strong and fat
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:16 pm
by Edlund
thats was a big one hehe
