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Re: fat res


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Posted by trinket on April 12, 2003 at 12:34:38:

In Reply to: Re: fat res posted by slpin on April 11, 2003 at 22:42:06:

Well, you can feed them in nearly anything that holds water really...it doesn't have to be a tank. Do you feed them anything other than goldfish? If it was harder for them to catch the fish I bet they would not catch so many (i.e. if they were in something bigger). If you are short on money maybe you could look into a big plastic strage container or, if you have the room, a stock tank. Two RES are gonna need a lot of room someday. Also, you can check local papers and online ads (if you are in a big city there are always tanks listed). I got a 50 gal. tank for like 30. in Chicago, so it pays to look around. Best of luck!

:yeah - the small one is getting pretty chubby. thats a he. i only have one tank - and as you can see, its not very big. i am hoping to get a bigger tank in the future though. i just throw goldfish in the tank and they would get it. but my smart ass parents kept giving them ALOT of goldfish even though i told them not to. the small one is VERY GIFTED at catching goldfish - and will catch 20-30 of them no trouble. :/

::Your RES does look pretty chubby. What do you feed her? Is there any way you could feed them in seperate tanks? Also, in the picture with the two it looks like the tank is kinda small. Maybe I just saw the shallow part but if they are confined in too small a space they could become aggresive to one another.

:::hey all

:::i am new here. i have two res. one is a female, and i think is about 1 or 1 1/2 years old and a 2 years old male.

:::the female is alot bigger than the male - and alot more "outgoing" and agreesive

:::the smaller one used to eat alot - but now seems to stop - and it also got really fat... any ideas on what is should do?

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