Female Bettas - may sound like a "dumb question"

[Suzie-Q]

That's okay. I'm new at this and don't mind asking the dumb question
now and then.

I have three female bettas (in three separate tanks). They're all looking
kinda fat! Fatter than they were when I bought them a couple of months
ago! What could be the cause? Roe? Overeating?

Is a fat female betta a bad thing?

Another dumb question: Will females, um, "develop" roe if there's no male
around? If so, what happens if no male shows up? Do they just carry this
roe around indefinitely waiting for a chance meeting?

Thanks in advance for your answers and your patience!
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[NetMax]

"Suzie-Q" > wrote in message
...
> That's okay. I'm new at this and don't mind asking the dumb question
> now and then.
>
> I have three female bettas (in three separate tanks). They're all
> looking
> kinda fat! Fatter than they were when I bought them a couple of months
> ago! What could be the cause? Roe? Overeating?
>
> Is a fat female betta a bad thing?
>
> Another dumb question: Will females, um, "develop" roe if there's no
> male
> around? If so, what happens if no male shows up? Do they just carry
> this
> roe around indefinitely waiting for a chance meeting?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers and your patience!
> --
> 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail)

Could be roe. Could be overeating (you should know if it's that by not
feeding them for 3 days). If roe, I really don't know too much on the
subject. I've heard that the eggs will harmlessly dissolve after a time
period (or by season), and I've heard of some impaction issues
(unsubstantiated in my mind). There might be some variety in how this
affects different types of fish. Wait for more opinions.
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[Lord Don]

"NetMax" > wrote in message
. ..
> "Suzie-Q" > wrote in message
> ...
>> That's okay. I'm new at this and don't mind asking the dumb question
>> now and then.
>>
>> I have three female bettas (in three separate tanks). They're all looking
>> kinda fat! Fatter than they were when I bought them a couple of months
>> ago! What could be the cause? Roe? Overeating?
>>
>> Is a fat female betta a bad thing?
>>
>> Another dumb question: Will females, um, "develop" roe if there's no male
>> around? If so, what happens if no male shows up? Do they just carry this
>> roe around indefinitely waiting for a chance meeting?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your answers and your patience!
>> --
>> 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail)
>
> Could be roe. Could be overeating (you should know if it's that by not
> feeding them for 3 days). If roe, I really don't know too much on the
> subject. I've heard that the eggs will harmlessly dissolve after a time
> period (or by season), and I've heard of some impaction issues
> (unsubstantiated in my mind). There might be some variety in how this
> affects different types of fish. Wait for more opinions.
> --
> www.NetMax.tk
>




They could be ripe with eggs and it is good to let females lay, they will
usually absorb with no prob though.
If the scales are sticking out horizontally (pine coning) then it's bad.
Real bad. Possibly fish tb. Labrynth fish are suseptable to this disease, so
don't clean a swollen fishes tank with a cut on your hand.
If the fish just look fat, but are still healthy and eating it's just fat!
Fat around a girls ovaries can stop her breeding many of my female fish
(espec africans) will spawn when I go on holiday and starve the things for a
week or so.
May be worth looking at the food and getting one with less fat. A diet if
you will.
Or if you don't want to bred and ya like fat happy fish don't worry about
it.
HTH