Hi All,

thanks for all the replies.. seems like I'm just bound to keep them "fat"
and not worry... (altho one of my lace gouramis are getting abit pot-bellied
too... hmmm) at least it's nice to know it's hard to over-feed the tank
with SAE's on the loose.

I'll try to take a photo of them to see if they look unhealthily chubby. 2
of the 4 looks like a shark profile (if you know what I mean), but the other
2 looks like they swallowed a small rugby ball in their bellies.. definitely
a noticable potbelly. (as in "fat bellies" and not "cancerous growth
bellies")

Hopefully they'll be ok.. I thought they were only supposed to grow to 4in?
currently they are about 4in long from tip of their nose to the base of
their tailfins. are they going to get larger?? Now I'm worried if I have
overstocked my planted 37G tank:

4 SAE
4 pearl gouramis (t. leeri)
4 zebra loaches (b. striata)
3 chain/dwarf loaches (b. sidthemunkis)
? otocincluses (more than 3, less than 7...)
2 danios (both 2+ yr old, so they're getting old... don't intend to replace
them after they go to fish heaven)

my worry is that I started out with 3 young dwarf loaches (sidthemunkis)
that are about 1in long.. but now I can only see 2 at any given time. not
sure if the third one is hiding somewhere in the sword plant bush, or became
midnight SAE snack...

linda