Skinny Female

[sde09001]

so i finally decided that my two new bettas are actually wild splendens and not imbellis like i thought they were. now that i know that i'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my female, bella. she is very skinny for a female splendens, and her ovipositor is very small compared to all teh females i have had in the past. she is larger than my male, but only in length. he is fatter and always has been. i'm treating the tank for parasites with jungle parasite clear thinking she might have IPs. she still isn't fattening up, but is eating like a pig and pooing normally. why would she be so much skinnier than him? and also her fins aren't healing nearly as fast as his did. all of his tears from the tank change or healed while hers don't look like they've started to heal at all (other than her tail fin but its only got a little bit of the white tissue that forms at the beginning of the healing process). my only idea of why she is so skinny is becuase she isn't making eggs, which i've never had a problem with when showing a female to a male. is it possible for fish to go through menopause and stop producing eggs once they hit a certain age?

 

[Azaeil]

Hmm, can we see photos? As for the egg thing I'm not entirely sure if they go through the same stage us mammals do when they get old..

 

[sde09001]

here's what she looked like when i first got her

here she shortly after i put her in the new tank (maybe a week ago max)

 

[Azaeil]

Hmm, that is one long girl aside the issue at hand. How much do you currently feed her? Ovipositor size doesn't always match betta size, one of my girl's ovipositor is large, while another's of the same body size is notably smaller.

 

[BethK]

I think, tbh, with the cross breeding of her, it's like a deformatiy, over anything else

 

[sde09001]

i feed her once a day. either three hikari betta bio gold pellets or some frozen food (either blood worms or brine shrimp depending what i feel like, thawed of course). Just out of curioaity why do you think she's a cross breed? and across of what, imbellis and splendens?

 

[BethK]

Just her body shape, the length etc, she isn't in proportion