Achilles pics
 

So I was taking my usual 600,000 pics today without finding any I liked but what I did get was a strong feeling that it was time Doofus went on a diet.
Does anyone else think this might be unhealthy? :neutral:

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I'm including the pic below to show that he is the picture of health if you don't look at his beer gut :lol:

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Great pic Marie. What a beautiful and healthy looking fish. :D

What a gorgeous fish! WOW Marie...nice!

Wow! Is his name really Doofus?

Your angle also looks plump!

He was aptly named Doofus by my daughter. Here is a video I took of him last year when he was half the size :lol:


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nice pics one of my top tangs and also neat video he must be dizzy after all that spinning lol

I think it is healthy for fish to be fat...to a point, I suppose. My Achilles does not look quite as heavy as yours, but I would guess it is close. He eats a tremendous amount, but also expends a lot of energy.

OK..I just watched the video and your fish is certainly weirder than mine. The really fast swimming is the same...as is the quick looping...but I've never seen mine go upsidedown!

You should spend hours watching that fish live like TomR, Irene & I have done. It's a hoot and a half. Real nutty.:lol:

I like my fish fat:biggrin:

Anthony

Which should tell you what a party town Powell River is :lol:




Geez, I can't believe I'm up this early packing up corals. See ya later Anthony

YEAH! It's Saturday Night! Grab a beer and watch our fish do somersaults!
Party-On Powell River!! "YAAAAAAH"

I don't think the whole diet thing is going very well :rolleyes:

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Fatty, Fatty 2 x 4
Couldn't get through the coral corridor :cry:

Maybe some extra weight will slow him down a bit....

Haha, that's awesome.. Looks like a happy fish, good work. :)

A beautiful fish, one of my favorites. What size is your achilles? About 7" of so - always tough to sell in the pictures.

He's probably around 7"-8" .

Hard to believe he started as a tiny 2 1/2- 3", he didn't look completely oversized when he started out in a 20g quarantine tank :lol:

Good lord Marie, that is one fat fish. So awesome to see them like that :biggrin:

Hi, my name is doofus and I have an eating disorder :eating:

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This is also the only top down photo that I liked but I don't think I want people voting him the fattest fish ever so I didn't enter it into the photo contest :razz:


All kidding aside, all my fish are going to be fed less even if my regal angel nibbles on corals

OH MY Marie...he does have an issue doesn't he????? HOLY!

There are no words beyond wow for that!

Geeze Marie have you been slipping the fish some roids in there food.:lol:
Chris

People always talk about how fat their fish are, and I have often gazed at mine, wondering if they're fat enough. Now that I've seen this, I'd say mine are.....fit. :p

What a beautiful fish you have there, Marie. I really love him....and can sympathize with the fellow, in that he obviously loves to eat ;)

That's the closest I've ever seen a tang in a tank look like a tang in the wild. The ones I saw in Hawaii a couple years ago (Achilles too) were absolutely wide loads.

Spectacular! :)

Wow, he is a porker! But then again, I must agree with what Delphinus said, if you watch film and documentaries and reefs/reef fish, a lot of them in the wild are pretty chunky.

I have to know, how did he get so plump? What do you feed?

Simply awesome :biggrin:

McDonald's Cheeseburgers... :lol:

And extra large fries

Extra large drink too? Although maybe a diet one.

I was feeding mysis shrimp and a full sheet of nori in the morning then in the afternoon frozen angel food or flake food of some kind and another full sheet of nori. (I was feeding so much to keep the angel from eating corals...it didn't work).
Now, I've cut out the afternoon feed and only feed 3 sheets of nori every 2 days

WOW! I thought my fish were fat, but I think you win :razz: I bet mine come close though :biggrin: