Bought a Red tail cat fish and found out something
- Thread starter Ruii
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Not big enough, a bare minimum for a fully grown RTC is a 12' x 4' x 3'. Please get the tank first before an RTC.
They can and will grow 1" per week if fed well and will easily outgrow a 6' tank.
They can and will grow 1" per week if fed well and will easily outgrow a 6' tank.
you're all wasting your time. no one believes you when you tell them how fast an RTC grows.. and they just don't get how big they actually get.. and nothing you can say will change their mind. my ex KNEW how big they got and had some idea how fast they grew, and he STILL insisted on getting one.
here it is 6 or 7 years later and i still don't own an aquarium large enough to house an RTC properly or for more than a few months at best.
here it is 6 or 7 years later and i still don't own an aquarium large enough to house an RTC properly or for more than a few months at best.
Au contrair, Pepper hasn't eaten his tankmate yet. But this sure isn't common!
Man, he will probably be 10 inches by the end of the week.
Hoping your 6 foot tank is 10 foot long then. Cause otherwise, you cannot house one for more than maybe 6 months at the most.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all week...do you realize how much more a red tail will eat than a snakehead?
I think we should all be worried if you think a 6' tank is big enough for a red tail....
it's a problem i have no longer. she over-ate and vomited while i was gone grocery shopping and killed herself and my TSN a few years ago. But she was beautiful, i miss her, but i'll never own another RTC till i have a tank large enough to keep one for life. and by that i mean something similar to JohnPTC's tank. i won't even cramp an RTC into my 10' x 4' tank.
