giant width vs length

We notice that a number of giants available in the market have tendencies being ok on length, i.e. they're 2.8" or so in length, but they're in fact quite 'skinny'.....

Our giants, at the age of 3.5 months, are actually very thick on the body as well as lengthy (2.6 inches). For instance, check out the 2 blurry pictures shown of our giants in previous post awhile back. One of the giant is very thick and the other one is quite skinny. The thick one becomes the majority for us these days (or maybe because we had the tendency to choose thicker ones for spawning).

The problem with the thick one is that it is very difficult for the male to wrap the female. Once the size of the female gets to 2.8 inches, the male can only try and try to wrap the female without much success. These females have tendencies of being very fat and huge as well, so their width is quite easily upto 1.5 times the width of the male (mind the eggs!). This reminds me of "bender" of Futurama when he's trying to bend thick steel. Perhaps that's the reason why we don't see much of 3+ inches females available, cause in order to wrap such female, one needs at least 3.5 or 4 inches male for ease of spawning experience ;)