Chubby Zebra

[Sowilu]

One of my first zebra danios is a hog. It will eat every single bloodworm it can find. I feed them flakes, frozen bloodworms, and freeze-dried bloodworms and everytime I do this its stomach gets humonguos. I always see it going to the food first and it even fights over it. The other fish only get a small amount and if I try to give them their share the it hogs the food. I am afraid it will pop! Can they pop from eating too much? What can I do to stop it from doing this or is there even a way? Odd questions right.

[eyebeatbadgers]

Pop ? I really doubt it, unless it is diseased or something really weird is going on. I have a small school of zebras in my tank too, and there is a dominant fish that always tries to fight for the food. Once he gets his fill, he will continue trying to eat food, but it usually ends up coming back up. I would try dropping flakes on two different sides of the tank at the same time, that would give him a harder time hogging all the food.

[SearunSimpson]

You could buy (2.99) or make some feeding rings and place two or three in different parts of your tank to drop the flakes/freezdried into it, that way they will have to choose only one of three places to eat, and it keeps the food from spreading across the surface.

[Sowilu]

Originally Posted by SearunSimpson

You could buy (2.99) or make some feeding rings and place two or three in different parts of your tank to drop the flakes/freezdried into it, that way they will have to choose only one of three places to eat, and it keeps the food from spreading across the surface.

For right now I am feeding my cories the same food until I can go to the lfs. Will this affect on how I feed them too? I do spread the food all over the fish tank and that little zebra is fast. I know danios are fast but this one is super fast when it comes to food!