My female is really really really fat!!

[heather]

lately i have been feeding them less, but i have just noticed that cathrine looks really really fat...she has never been this fat before, How come she is so fat?......Im a little worried about her

is there any reason to be? i nolonger have rocks in the tank but her stomach looks like it has some big bulges and oh it looks kinda scary

i dont know whats going on with her

 

[benjamin]

Could she be gravid (about to lay eggs)?

 

[dave]

Pebbles, stones etc can take some time to pass through. They shop i got my first axie from kept them on small stones and it took about a month or 2 to get rid of them all. How long ago did u remove the stones? As ben said it could be eggs

 

[mik]

Heather, remind us how old she is. The females sometimes body up when really approaching sexual maturity - 1 year.

Check out the piccy below. Psylocke is wonderfully rounded - melanoid at bottom of piccy. I'm glad to say the female wildtype and the female leucisitc are now both filling out to same shape.

 

[heather]

Catherine is only 6/7 months old, thats why i was a little freaked out i did think she would be mature at such a young age

 

[heather]

I have a few piccys of her that arent that good, but you can still see her belly. these pics are before it got really big and it has actually gone down a bit

(Message edited by jennewt on September 23, 2004)

 

[benjamin]

How big is she. Do you have any pictures of her recently?

 

[heather]

i took these like a week ago
as i said she doesnt look as fat any more and she got fat after i took out the stones

 

[benjamin]

When I said recently I meant of her being fat.

 

[anastasia]

My axolotl is kind of fat to. I wouldn't worry.

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