Bloated or pregnant?

[Sgooosh]

This smaller characodon has had her belly quite large for a while, do you think she is pregnant or constipated? No pineconing. Worried since she has such a large belly for a small fish
No other characodons or other fish have this issue

 

[Innesfan]

What are you feeding, and is she pooping?

 

[Sgooosh]

What are you feeding, and is she pooping?

I'm feeding them the normal high protein diet that I normally feed them (most consists of fluval bug bites) I have fed that to her since birth, and I will pay attention to see if she poops or not

 

[Sgooosh]

What are you feeding, and is she pooping?

also, interestingly enough, I just noticed a new fry of Characodon, honestly not sure which fish it was from, but no other characodons have large bellies.
Looking at her vent area, I do see a black line inside, but have yet to see her actually poop.

 

[emeraldking]

She only looks pregnant. But be aware of it that goodeids have a longer gestation period than most ovoviviparous livebearers. All viviparous livebearers take longer in comparison to ovoviviparous livebearers. Goodeids have an average gestation period of 6-8 weeks. Sometimes even longer.

 

[Sgooosh]

She only looks pregnant. But be aware of it that goodeids have a longer gestation period than most ovoviviparous livebearers. All viviparous livebearers take longer in comparison to ovoviviparous livebearers. Goodeids have a average gestation period of 6-8 weeks. Sometimes even longer.

Thanks! I'm relieved to know that. thought the new black soldier fly larva was making them constipated.
I see, her belly has started to grow more than a month ago, she's maybe almost there

 

[emeraldking]

Thanks! I'm relieved to know that. thought the new black soldier fly larva was making them constipated.
I see, her belly has started to grow more than a month ago, she's maybe almost there

I can imagine when most people are only used to the known big 4 (swordtail, platy, molly and guppy) with an average gestation period of 3-4 weeks (some times even longer), that a month and a half till 2 months seems weird. But this is the way how it works in real livebearers (viviparous) in comparison to ovoviviparous livebearers.

 

[Sgooosh]

I can imagine when most people are only used to the known big 4 (swordtail, platy, molly and guppy) with an average gestation period of 3-4 weeks (some times even longer), that a month and a half till 2 months seems weird. But this is the way how it works in real livebearers (viviparous) in comparison to ovoviviparous livebearers.

Yeah, definitely, my guppies just have pregnancies very frequently, so I didn't expect this characodon to have one for so long, but now I understand.
I'm very happy my LFS stocks up on these just spontaneously, It's cool learning more about these fish. I've found that even though there's not much information about them, they are really easy to keep since they haven't been inbred so much for colors.