Can you overfeed your Dat?

soulFish

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My big guy always seems to be begging for food, kinda like an oscar. I feed him everyday, and he gorges himself till he's bloated. He doesnt through up, but he does need to go rest after he eats. But am I doing a bad thing by letting him eat so much? Do these fish get greedy enough to hurt themselves by eating too much?
 

DiXoN

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yes it is possible my large dat has threw up twice he was so greedy he ate everyones food.
it was really bad too i lost a fish due to it.
 

Kobi9019

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DiXoN;793966; said:
yes it is possible my large dat has threw up twice he was so greedy he ate everyones food.
it was really bad too i lost a fish due to it.
O thanks for the heads up I'll have to be carefull of that
 

DiXoN

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it eat around 18 whitebait, 6 prawns and pellets too.
the whitebait were around 2-3'' each and all this food was for a tigrinus,RTG aro,ray plus the dat and a few other smaller fish.
it did this twice and brought up the lot the next day whilst i was at work, i came back to some really bad water and lost a 6'' geophagus.
i actually consider myself lucky as i could have lost a lot more.
 

ewurm

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My thinbar is finicky. One problem that I have is that he is smaller than some of the fish in the tank, so it takes a little coaxing to get him to come out and eat.
 
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