Illness/Sickness: Overfed juvie? can see intestines, is this normal even for an albino?

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I may just be a worried new mom but my 4in (10cm) juvie seems overweight?
They're an albino and i can also see their white intestines against what I assume is their dark stomach?
They're on black sand substrate and I fed them a brine shrimp cube per day (in a small bowl on the sand) before noticing their weight gain... I have given them only half a cube for the past few days.
Is this normal? I can't find many pictures of juveniles that age (someone told me a 4in is probably 6-10 months old) therefore I can't tell if this is normal...
I have a video of them, only a minute long, that shows them walking and from many angles as they turn. You can see the intestines near the end.
video:
http://youtu.be/Ddv1pLfVWTQ

Are they overweight? Are they impacted? Am I feeding them too much? What do I need to do for them?
Thanks!!
 
I'm not an expert, but as far as I could see in the video they looked normal sized :happy:
 
Looks to be normal sized. Could there be any gravel/substrate causing such dark areas....just thought it looked a little bumpy?
 
They haven't been on any gravel or anything larger than sand since I've had them, and when they arrived they were pretty tiny but not bumpy. I noticed that too, though... Other than gravel, what else could it be? I don't see any air bubbles...
 
In smaller pale axies you can usually see their intestines and liver - normal and nothing to worry about.
 
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