Hi everyone! Very new here, and have a very basic (potentially stupid!) question...
I've just recently started up with zebra and leopard danios after many successful years of raising moors, orandas, and Bettas. I don't know enough yet about my danios to know if the following is normal or not, so I may just be being paranoid. Please let me know!
One of my fancy leopard danios gets a very pronounced, pointed lump on its underside when it eats. It goes away within 15 minutes so I'm pretty sure it isn't an illness such as dropsy, but it's there during and after every feeding. I'm not sure if the lump is in the location of the fish's stomach, it looks too close to the head.
I am currently feeding them tropical granules (I know they are too big, I bought them on reccomendation of the pet store without seeing the size and so have been crushing them up a bit before feeding) and occasionally red grubs. The lump is there no matter what I feed them.
So is my little leopard just gorging itself and getting fat? Should I be concerned and/or change the food? The others don't seem to get anything similar, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks in advance!
I've just recently started up with zebra and leopard danios after many successful years of raising moors, orandas, and Bettas. I don't know enough yet about my danios to know if the following is normal or not, so I may just be being paranoid. Please let me know!
One of my fancy leopard danios gets a very pronounced, pointed lump on its underside when it eats. It goes away within 15 minutes so I'm pretty sure it isn't an illness such as dropsy, but it's there during and after every feeding. I'm not sure if the lump is in the location of the fish's stomach, it looks too close to the head.
I am currently feeding them tropical granules (I know they are too big, I bought them on reccomendation of the pet store without seeing the size and so have been crushing them up a bit before feeding) and occasionally red grubs. The lump is there no matter what I feed them.
So is my little leopard just gorging itself and getting fat? Should I be concerned and/or change the food? The others don't seem to get anything similar, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks in advance!
