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I just got a RES about two months ago. It is great. Slowly becoming my favorite animal. In fact I just got his/her brother/sister about two weeks ago. The guy I got the first one from only had three left and since they were all born together, I thought it would be cool to have the brother/sister of the one I got. They are still too small to sex so I do not know what they are yet. How big is your RES?