Nice fish!!! Congratulations!!

In the first pic, his gut looks a little thinner near where your brother's right hand is, but then, in the next pic, it's bulky gut looks like it extends further out towards the tail.

It almost looks like the contents of the fish's stomach redistributed when moving from horizontal to vertical.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."