Neon question

[aquaboy]

I have a 33 gal community tank including 9 neons. One of them has a huge stomach and I was wondering whether that means it has the dreaded "neon tetra disease" or something else. Also, should I quarantine this fish before it causes the other fish to get sick?

Thanks

 

[Ems]

I noticed this happened to a couple of my neons, at different times. Only one of them died while it had a big stomach. You'll want to make sure its nothing serious, so I would recommend quarantining it so you can control just how much the one fish eats. It could very well be bladder related, or maybe it's just being overfed?

 

[Obsidian]

Does the fish look kind of like a miniature whale... swollen belly but not distended? It could just be a gravid female. Mine occasionally looks like she's ready to pop, and then the fish start spawning and she goes back to being fairly normal.

Obsidian

 

[aquaboy]

The stomach of one of the neons was quite big and it was keeping to itself, while another one's skin was looking discoloured and the fins were torn. I was looking on a couple other comments and it sounded like NTD.