Trachyphillia swollen

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I recently lost my first trachy so maybe I am being paranoid. I realized that my white light spectrum was too intense and it burnt my first one so I made the correction, but not before I started seeing issues with the new one. Since I adjusted the light, this trachy has been inflating to twice the size.

So, I fed it yesterday (a mix of reef roids and reef chili), and I got a feeding response. Today the middle is very bloated. Is this normal? I'm not usually home during the day, so maybe this is normal? Is this how it flushes itself out?

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Looks happy to me.
I went out to do some errands and when I got home it was back to normal. I am assuming that it was absorbing extra water to flush itself out. It was almost round, lol.
 
It could have been flushing out its system, but I am just leaning towards an exaggerated feeding response. It could have caught a taste of amino acids and swelled up to catch as much as possible, or just buffing up to show off[emoji6].
 

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