Parasites Or Normal?

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Finally got a good picture of one of my female gouramis. Both of my females look like this. The male doesn't.

They are really healthy eaters and don't have any irregular looking poop. Are they just fat because they are female?
 

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It kinda looks bloated but im not sure.. I just couldnt resist commenting becuase your tank it so beautiful!
 
 If they are not pooping white, I wouldn't worry about the intestinal bloat parasite.  Our gourami always seemed to be really fat, always scared me, but i dewormed him and it didn't change so not really sure
 
she could be fat with eggs, over fed or have an internal parasite.
what you can do it stop feeding for a few days and see if the body changes. if not then the other possibility is fat with eggs or internal parasite.
 
On what diet are they ??? Do you feed some vegs as well? Try a starve-day once in a while. Won't harm them.
 
DoubleDutch said:
On what diet are they ??? Do you feed some vegs as well? Try a starve-day once in a while. Won't harm them.
I feed the whole tank on a "variety pack" frozen food. It has bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia, and something else in little frozen cubes. I also feed them some flakes sometimes. I feed my corydoras shrimp pellets and algae wafers and the gouramis eat on those as well.
Sundays are starve days and pwc days.
HHH said:
It kinda looks bloated but im not sure.. I just couldnt resist commenting becuase your tank it so beautiful!
thank you! : ) Thats really nice of you to say.
 
Mmmm not a lot wrong with that, but maybe you could try to feed the gouramis some more algae / vegs, being more omnivore than for instance Corys (95% carnivores) I feed them some lettuce that I boiled for a few minutes.
 
DoubleDutch said:
Mmmm not a lot wrong with that, but maybe you could try to feed the gouramis some more algae / vegs, being more omnivore than for instance Corys (95% carnivores) I feed them some lettuce that I boiled for a few minutes.
Thanks! I'll try that. I also got some of those algae wafers that stick on the side of the tank, so I can give them those every morning.
 

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