I have searched this bb for egg binding, and looked in the disease database (even though it's not a disease) and come up empty. Would someone please provide info on egg binding?
Reason for the question: Have several Tiger Barbs. About a month ago one got a real belly, but only a belly. Scales were not proud, fish ate and swam fine - so dropsey wasn't the reason for the belly. The tb is still doing fine, and belly seems a little smaller - or I could just be getting used to it.
Egg binding supposedly happens if the fish can't, don't want to, choose not to, or the conditions are not right, for spawning. Is this correct? I can understand this, being that there are multiplt tb's, so I would expect that there is at least 1 female and 1 male in the bunch.
But what if there is only 1 of a given species in a tank? Can egg binding still occur? Could the fish be a female and ready to spawn but because she is a solo act, doesn't release her eggs and gets a belly?
Ooohhh - the drama of it all. I don't want to breed fish, but I also don't want the little fishies to swell up and get stretch marks cause their not making time...
Reason for the question: Have several Tiger Barbs. About a month ago one got a real belly, but only a belly. Scales were not proud, fish ate and swam fine - so dropsey wasn't the reason for the belly. The tb is still doing fine, and belly seems a little smaller - or I could just be getting used to it.
Egg binding supposedly happens if the fish can't, don't want to, choose not to, or the conditions are not right, for spawning. Is this correct? I can understand this, being that there are multiplt tb's, so I would expect that there is at least 1 female and 1 male in the bunch.
But what if there is only 1 of a given species in a tank? Can egg binding still occur? Could the fish be a female and ready to spawn but because she is a solo act, doesn't release her eggs and gets a belly?
Ooohhh - the drama of it all. I don't want to breed fish, but I also don't want the little fishies to swell up and get stretch marks cause their not making time...