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How can you tell if your goldfish is overweight or underweight?

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Underweight: the head will be wider than the fishes body

Overweight: the fishes body will have a disproportionally large pot belly (please note that certain kind of fancy goldfish such as ranchu, pearl scales and lionhead naturally have a pot belly)

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