Carrying Eggs or sick fish?

[fishmom]

Here are my white cloud minnows.  I have always just thought they were carrying eggs but they never seem to drop any.  Is something else going on? Unheated tank, about 74 degrees usually, pH 7.6, 0 ammonia and nitrites, very few if any Nitrates (<10), GH 300ppm, KH about 100. Tank mates include neon tetra, gold neon tetra, and khulis. 

[Colu]

Have you tryed fasting them for a couple of days  they could just be over weight or it could be egg bound 

[fishmom]

On 10/12/2021 at 2:03 PM, Colu said:

Have you tryed fasting them for a couple of days  they could just be over weight or it could be egg bound 

They usually get fasted at least 1 day a week.  Could they just hold eggs for a long time?

[Colu]

In my experience with tetra is the females go very plump for a while after a couple of days to a week they will lose the weight as like to lay their eggs first thing  they seem to put the weight back on after a couple of days if your not seeing any pineconing of the scales and fish are eating ok and active it's more then likely carrying eggs or just fat the females usually get the lion share of the food