Clown Fry have bloated bellies!!!

[MTracyRN]

I have a group of clown fry that are around 55 days old, they've been doing great but over the last week or two some of them have become extremely bloated. I started them on Metro and even fed them 1/3 of what i normally feed but it still is not going away. Please help I am desperate and cannot find any info anywhere.

 

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@F i s h y ?

 

[F i s h y]

What foods are you feeding them? I noticed some of mine seem to get constipated when feeding TDO. Not sure why. I have found that doing a feeding or 2 of frozen baby brine typically clears it up. I will note, none of mine have been that way for "week or two". i hope this is helpful, my best advice is a varied diet. I feed TDO, but i also feed baby brine, minced mysis, cyclopeeze, and basically anything else that will fit in their mouth.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have a group of clown fry that are around 55 days old, they've been doing great but over the last week or two some of them have become extremely bloated. I started them on Metro and even fed them 1/3 of what i normally feed but it still is not going away. Please help I am desperate and cannot find any info anywhere.

TDO may not be as palatable opposed to feeding rotifiiers and baby brine shrimp

 

[MTracyRN]

What foods are you feeding them? I noticed some of mine seem to get constipated when feeding TDO. Not sure why. I have found that doing a feeding or 2 of frozen baby brine typically clears it up. I will note, none of mine have been that way for "week or two". i hope this is helpful, my best advice is a varied diet. I feed TDO, but i also feed baby brine, minced mysis, cyclopeeze, and basically anything else that will fit in their mouth.

maybe an exageration, its been a few days for sure though. Only feeding TDO at the moment so i will get some BBS and see if that helps. Thank you!

 

[dthom]

I may be wrong, but in my experience their appetite really increases and they start feeding pretty hard. For me their stomachs OFTEN looked just like your pictures. Are you sure it is not just that they have really full bellies? Have you tried skipping a feeding and see if it reduces? Just a thought.

 

[F i s h y]

maybe an exageration, its been a few days for sure though. Only feeding TDO at the moment so i will get some BBS and see if that helps. Thank you!

lol I assumed so. and @dthom is right, their appetites really start ramping up at that stage. mine still destroy 4 feedings a day easily. so they could just be gorging when they eat.

 

[MTracyRN]

I may be wrong, but in my experience their appetite really increases and they start feeding pretty hard. For me their stomachs OFTEN looked just like your pictures. Are you sure it is not just that they have really full bellies? Have you tried skipping a feeding and see if it reduces? Just a thought.

some are not so bad, hard to get picks of some of the bad ones, one was so bad it was swimming almost upside down. I did lay off feeding quite a bit all the way down to once a day for 3 days and it didnt do much

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

some are not so bad, hard to get picks of some of the bad ones, one was so bad it was swimming almost upside down. I did lay off feeding quite a bit all the way down to once a day for 3 days and it didnt do much

Was the bad fish swimming upside down due to gas in the gut do you think? It’s possible there is bacterial decomposition of old food in the gut and that can produce gas.

I like to feed small amounts of TDO and LBB multiple times a day, but don’t let them gorge themselves.