Fat spotted rapheal

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Aome pics of our fat raph. He eats like a machine and sometimes looks like hes gonna pop easily double the size of the striped rapheal.we have. Ive seen pics of them this fat but is it ok ?
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Yup, he's good, for now anyways, just a sign that he's well fed :). If you're worried about him being overweight then just mix up his diet, what are you currently feeding?
 
He gets a mix of nls, omega one super color pellets, omegaone kepl pellets and omega one shrimp pellets. Basically what everyone else gets. He will also steel algea wafers

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Try giving him some occasional blackworms, bloodworms, and chopped up fruit as well if you want, since I started giving those to my striped raph he's grown substantially.
 
It has been seen. I struggle to convince myself it is within a healthy norm but cannot atm provide scientific proof. It depends what this mass "around the waist" is. I doubt it is fat. It is probably intestines stretched with food being slowly digested, slower than the intake is. The worst case, it could be a bloat (gas), or a clog, or a parasite infestation but all these things spoil its appetite.

So to sum it up, I think there is too much food mass in his intestines but perhaps in a communal tank setting it is unavoidable with raphs. IDK.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
It has been seen. I struggle to convince myself it is within a healthy norm but cannot atm provide scientific proof. It depends what this mass "around the waist" is. I doubt it is fat. It is probably intestines stretched with food being slowly digested, slower than the intake is. The worst case, it could be a bloat (gas), or a clog, or a parasite infestation but all these things spoil its appetite.

So to sum it up, I think there is too much food mass in his intestines but perhaps in a communal tank setting it is unavoidable with raphs. IDK.
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If there is aomething wrong such as bloat how would I be able to tell. The rhing has an insane apetite

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As stated, I think it'd lose its appetite completely and that's for starters. That's why I discarded the bloat.

Yes, these guys are known to inhale all and any foods and loads of it, so, again, as stated, this may be largely an insurmountable problem in a community tank. But IDK if it is a problem. I only tend to think it is. Ideally (outside a lab), one would need say 20 of these guys in 20 perfect hobbyist tanks in 20 countries or states with 10 kept "fit" and 10 kept "fat" for their lifetime which can be 30 years (for striped raphs, IDK about spotted).

We will unlikely ever possess such a database so all this is a guessing game and we are reduced to inklings :)

Necro played a mortician with great many cats and said he saw significant fat deposits but he is not around to remind us whether they were only temperate catfish or tropical, or both, or cats fed fatty foods from warm-blooded animals ("wrong" fat), or tropical catfish on a goldfish diet (too much "right" fat), etc.
 
Thanks and appreciate the info just fed him some shelled peas .... gonna start feeding the comm tank more peas

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