Platys bulging

[arj]

I'm quite worried about some of my fish.

Recently, the platy's and neon tetras have been bulging around the underside of the stomach. I thought that maybe this was jsut general growth, but just now I realised that on one of the platy babies has got a serious bulge. some of the tetra's are showing this too, but just not as much as the platies....

Any comments? help? thanks.

 

[StarOrbs]

I've notice the bulge get bigger on my platies after they eat some food.

 

[WILDER]

Try some shelled peas, what do you feed your fish.

 

[arj]

At the moment, I'm giving flakes pellets alternating every day. I leave out two days a week. Sometimes I give bloodworms instead of the flakes / pellets.

What sort of feeding do you do?

 

[WILDER]

To many dry foods can cause constipation, swim bladder and dropsy, so a varied diet is important, with frozen food and veg in there diet, can the fish maintain there balance in the water, and do scales stick out like a pinecomb.

 

[arj]

I don't think that their scales are poking out.

What do you mean by 'dry food'? What is a 'non - dry' food?

And isn't it pinecone? lol

 

[WILDER]

Dry foods are flakes, pellets, frozen foods are good, and veg.