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Considering a mild salt treatment, see if that makes a difference.

Females could be full of eggs or just fat from overfeeding. Males can also be overweight.

What's their poop like?

If they're eating well but producing stringy white poop, I'd say intestinal worms are a strong possibility.


It's possible that the fish are eating the larval stages of those ...

They're kept in cement tanks, lots of algae. Maybe they've eaten too much algae and it's built up in their bellies. I don't think it's dropsy, their scales look fine and they're swimming actively.

Females could be full of eggs or just fat from overfeeding. Males can also be overweight.

What's their poop like?

If they're eating well but producing stringy white poop, I'd say intestinal worms are a strong possibility.


Their feces look perfectly normal and they eat without hesitation as ...

Hi,
I'm having trouble figuring out what's going on with my fin-tanks - they have these weirdly swollen stomachs (check the attached pics). It's strange, but they're behaving normally, eating well, and swimming actively. No fin rot or other issues. The swollen stomachs are throwing me off, though ...