Delhezi eating to much?

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Yes it can eat itself to death. Happened to me twice already. It can happen fairly quickly now that it's in a new environment. Post a pic of it when it is full. One thing is a fat del, another is one that just does not know when to stop. Strangely this eat til I explode behavior has only been with captive bred and never wild caught.
 
You might want to put the del in another tank. No need to fast the entire tank because once you resume normal feeding schedule, it will gorge itself again. take a pic and we go from there.
 
This is the best i could get because he wonnt stop moving :/ This is a little smaller than it usually is.

 
That doesn't look too bad. I've had Senegals look worse.
 
Well all the teugs seem to be completely slender and then you see my del with about a 1" stomach. But if its ok i guess ill just hope he doesnt eat himself to death, could he be eating because hes depressed? Haha a little far fetched but this started happening when i first moved them to the 180 gallon and his buddy jumped out of the tank, no idea how because theres literally no holes anywhere on my tank, and he dried up :( So maybe thats it? I just dont wanna lose my other del, i raised them from 1" and they have amazing patterns :/
 
When she was smaller the biggest she got was this...

Or this
 
Catch the del in a net or cup before you feed to slim her down. If doesn't work, sounds like you might have to rehome it. Idk.
 
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