okay I have a baby rtc in a small 90 litre tank until its big enough to go into the big tank. there was a molly in ther until last night. It was a big molly, as mollies go it was definately full size. anyway this morning ive seen the tail of the molly just a little bit out of the mouth of the rtc, the rtc is only about an inch longer. The rtc looks absolutley abnormal, ive seen it fat off prawns before but this is massive!! it seems impossible for this to happen, and Im not exaggerating, the stomach extends down another 100% the depth of its body. How long should i leave it before I feed it and will it be okay?
what in gods name has just happened
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Sounds like standard RTC behavior to me. Plan on a big poopage from the cat soon if not already. For an adult, I'd wait a few days before feeding it again. However, young cats have a very high metabolism so, another feeding by tomorrow evening will likely be due. Keep the water pristine so as to reduce the risk of bacterial bloating.
Yes catfish try to eat anything they can fit in their mouths, not sure what you can do now that it is down in its stomach, try to net the cat fish and try to get him to throw itup.
I pulled it out, it was still whole. I would prefer to feed the redtai prawns instead of bad nutritional fish, so instead i fed it my little oscar, which sounds like i deliberately gave it a bad meal, but I would prefer the redtail to have more managable meals 
at least the molly hasnt died for nothing.
at least the molly hasnt died for nothing.Sounds normal. I have a shovel nose cat that is 13" long and had some cichlids in with him that I was trying to sell. The smallest cichlid was a female jd, she was about 8" and I thought was bigger then the mouth of the cat. BUt i came home from work one day sat down and watched the tank for a few minutes before I noticed something was missing. I went straight for the cat and found he had a huge belly.