An other really round tetra

Tetras, Hatchetfish, Pencilfish, Other Characin Fish (Silver Dollar, Headstander, Leporinus)
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Tycho
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Quite worried about one of my tetra's, its been getting progressively more rounded, at first I thought that it might have been eggs but it looks more like its full of air, unfortunately I can't get a decent picture
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Cut down on the feeding, she looks like an alpha so will get the food first.....
To see what's going on, stop feeding for a couple of days, then only feed a crushed (cooked) pea, they won't eat the skin unfortunately, only the inside.
Then do a cooler water change and see what happens.
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Agree with @plankton

That's not completely what they look like with overeating, but it's certainly bloated.
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I have a 2-3 cardinals that look like this. I’m really not sure I’m over feeding as others look ok. They were like this for couple of months now at least. Very weird 🙈
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