Yellow lab---time for a diet?

[bobgobucks]

He ate everything. No forensic evidence was recovered, but I suspect he ate my new Demasoni his first night. I am sure there were others.
And when he wasn't eating he was harassing the cichlids just for fun!

 

[mike dunagan]

Nothing you can do. Perhaps feed in multiple areas in the tank.

 

[RD.]

Excessive fat doesn't cause bloat, nor does excesive protein cause a fish to become fat. It's simply a case of too many calories, period.
What excessive fat does cause is premature death (fatty liver disease), so saying that "there's nothing wrong with a fat fish" is quite true, if you don't mind shaving a few yrs off of the life of your fish.

Case in point, the yellow lab shown below didn't die from bloat.

As far as feeding, other than what Mike suggested there really isn't a whole lot you can do if you keep this fish in a mixed tank.

 

[Red Devil]

Excessive fat doesn't cause bloat, nor does excesive protein cause a fish to become fat. It's simply a case of too many calories, period.
What excessive fat does cause is premature death (fatty liver disease), so saying that "there's nothing wrong with a fat fish" is quite true, if you don't mind shaving a few yrs off of the life of your fish.

Case in point, the yellow lab shown below didn't die from bloat.

As far as feeding, other than what Mike suggested there really isn't a whole lot you can do if you keep this fish in a mixed tank.

thank you for pointing out the difference ...of course it ends with the same result unless you intervene...but i always thought one led to the other.. so thanks..

 

[krazy4country]

they definatley need a diet lol

 

[AfroCichlidKeeper]

you need to get him on a treadmill lol

 

[Blue2Fyre]

Here's a tip i do to make sure my smaller fish get food. I put pellets in first and all the big aggressive eaters grab them up. Then I sprinkle in some veggie flake food. Since the bigger fish stuffed their faces with pellets, they can't gobble up the flakes in the same manner and they drift down to the waiting catfish and smaller fish.

 

[brujah]

haha, that is one chubby fishy