No Luck With Neons... But Possibly Lucky Neons... Or Not?

[PrairieSunflower]

After a bad start with neons (NTD) and a long break with seemingly healthy neons... we are back on the downward spiral with the occasional fish coming down with NTD again.   So... my numbers continue to drop (I'm not planning on replacing them).
 
My strange fat female is still fat... she varies from so fat the people on this forum said she'd not live much longer (still here thriving) to moderately fat.  She is a mystery to me.  I am sure that super crazy fat is when she is ready to scatter some eggs but no idea why she isn't normal female round the rest of the time.  I seem to have a second female now heading for a similar fatness... not quite there but getting there.  I cut down feeding significantly some time ago (as in months) to help.
 
Now... this morning I thought I was about to net a dead neon but was surprised to find it was the mostly amazingly trapped neon... so amazing I haven't the foggiest clue how he got trapped in the first place.  I have a fluval U3 and he was trapped within the... sort of frame bit with the suction cups that the filter slides into.  My frame was firmly suctioned to the glass so there were mere millimeters of space between that and the glass.  He seems no more worse for wear... but I know that isn't a good sign to get trapped anywhere.
 
Do you suppose he is likely to die?  He has been actively swimming since.

 

[NeonBlueLeon]

I'm sure if he's swimming around and behaving normally, he'll be just fine.  Are there any injuries you can see? 
 
My schooling tetras love to swim behind little spaces between decor and equipment that I never considered before, such as the space between my heater and tank wall, space between my HOB filter intake, space between my airline and tank.  This might have been an experiment gone awry.
 
Also neons seem kind of stupid to me, someone prove me wrong if they think otherwise.    And they generally have been weaken through all the generations of captivity breeding, so sorry to hear about your NTD and bloated female.  I'll be trying to get cardinals when my LFS gets them.

 

[PrairieSunflower]

He looks fine.  He had one scale out of place initially but it either fell off within minutes or popped back into place.
 
I love neons, but my experience isn't so great.  I was thinking cardinals for awhile but now I have a long term plan for honey gouramis one day when my current stock passes on (I have aging guppies, my neons will probably be long gone by then and I might have a few platies left)... I'm thinking a year from now or slightly longer.  LOL