Otos

[White Whale]

I have a live planted 2.5g tank that housed 2 otos and one betta. One of the otos is swollen with eggs, the other I will assume is a male since it seems to 'court' the other. I removed the betta to give them privacy and kept the light on a little longer to try to grow some algae for their diet. What conditions do I need should she deposit her eggs? And if she has fry, what do I feed them? Apparently, the conditions seem to be okay or close to correct if she is producing eggs. In the 6 months I've had her, I've never seen her swollen this much.

 

[balloon molly]

try feeding her high quality algae wafers(hikari or others)
thats all i know pretty much
sorry

 

[White Whale]

Feed the fry algae wafers? I got the Hikari wafers already anyway, so at least I know someone out there thinks it's high quality food.

 

[balloon molly]

i heard liquifry for egglayers do good.

 

[White Whale]

There's also these little white worm thingies traveling on the glass. Would the fry eat those?

 

[White Whale]

i heard liquifry for egglayers do good.

That's a Hikari product, yes?

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Itty Bitty Betta

Lucky you! Otos can spawn in home tanks, but they seldom seem to do it. I hope yours are successful and we can follow their progress.

Here's some links that might be useful to you:

http/www.angelfire.com/wa/AquariaWeb/oto.html

http/www.otocinclus.com/

Best of luck to you with them.

 

[White Whale]

Thanx! If they are successful, the first few go to Julie cuz she was looking for some and I tried looking for some for her and was unsuccessful.I'll give away more if available.

 

[balloon molly]

if they do breed can u loan me some.i dont have any where i live.
i belive liquifry for egglayers is a hikari product but i am not too sure.ill look it up for you

 

[White Whale]

Nevermind. Von Bismarck has passed away....

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Itty Bitty Betta

I'm so sorry to learn about your oto's passing.

What do you think happened?

 

[White Whale]

I dunno. All I know is that the belly was round and white and even. I removed Buttons that morning. When I got home, Von Bismarck was expired, stuck in one of the hornwort branches. The tummy then looked somewhat like the engine part of the USS Excelsior, with that big gap going towards the tail.

 

[kenneth_kpe]

maybe she' wasn't pregnant ? dunno really... but if it will still help i feed my otto's cocumbers they seem to like it