How fat is too fat ?

[shilo_1]

I started feeding sea veggies "seaweed" for my new Yellow Tang, and now its a fight as to who gets to finish the "weed" every night.
Since I started feeding it about two weeks ago, the blenny has....grown (in the girth) A LOT ! lol
Is there such a thing as too fat ?

Before (June):

After (1 month larer, July):

 

[CompNrdCR]

Thats fat! =)

He swims ok right?

 

[shilo_1]

lol...

Yes, swimming is totally normal, as he always has. You can watch him sit at the spont on the rock where I put the sea veggies under the rubber band...he picks at it with the YT and you can watch his belly grow.

I only feed about a 1"x2" piece a night, so I don't think I'm overfeeding it....all the other fish in the tank pick at it too as they swim by from time to time.

 

[shilo_1]

Anyone else have any comments ?

 

[AquaReeferMan]

He looks good to me. Usually when I see lawnmowers they are fat like that. As long as it is not struggling to move around he should be ok.

 

[ablazinob]

mine is chubbby and happy

 

[MDboyz]

Yupe.. mine is always like that.

 

[picnic]

mine looks like that and he seems happy

 

[Hop]

Seems like part of a Jay Leno monolog. Even the fish in America are fat

 

[mraafat]

I wonder in general how healthy it is for a fish to be fat. My blue regal tang eats like a monster (why we called her Jaws), and can easily eat an entire cube of frozen fodder in a day. She is nice and fat, swims around all day but at what point is it too much? Sorry if I hijack this thread.

 

[wds21921]

Consider this.

Fish for the most part are in some sort of constant physical exertion or movement (few excepetions). Unlike cats, dogs or humans, much of there survivability is dependent on there quickness or adaptation to there enviroment and other inhabitants. Breathing and constant foraging for food is exercise no matter how you look at it.
Even slower more sedated fish (Cardinals) have to constantly use there muscles to maintain there 'hover mode' lol.

I guess if you really tried you could make a fat fish but with that much feeding I think you'd probably kill it (water pollution) first.

My algae blenny is about 5"-6" in length and he's a little rolly polly as well and seems to be fine.

 

[melev]

Fat fish are happy fish.

 

[lux_06]

hey its refreshing to see a concern over a fish eating, rather then the usual issues with marine fish not eating!!!