Oto greed

[Bill Stock]

I recently purchased 9 more Otos for the big tank, but left them in the
office tank for a few weeks to pass the health check. I moved six Otos to
the big tank last week, leaving one Oto in the office tank. (I have no idea
where the other two went.) I then added two SAEs to the office tank for a
stop over on their way to the big tank.

Since the office tank recently underwent a severe Algae cleaning by the
Otos, there is absolutely ZERO Algae left in the tank. So I decided to try
feeding the SAEs some Algae wafers. They found these to their liking and eat
4 or 5 a day. One day I found the remaining Oto fighting over a wafer with
the two SAEs. This is very strange, since the Otos would not touch the
wafers in the past.

[Liz McGuire]

Bill,

I couldn't get my otos (also new) to eat the wafers until the algae
was gone, so I think it's a preference kinda thing - once the yummy
stuff is gone, they'll settle for wafers. :-)

Liz


Bill Stock wrote:
>
> I recently purchased 9 more Otos for the big tank, but left them in the
> office tank for a few weeks to pass the health check. I moved six Otos to
> the big tank last week, leaving one Oto in the office tank. (I have no idea
> where the other two went.) I then added two SAEs to the office tank for a
> stop over on their way to the big tank.
>
> Since the office tank recently underwent a severe Algae cleaning by the
> Otos, there is absolutely ZERO Algae left in the tank. So I decided to try
> feeding the SAEs some Algae wafers. They found these to their liking and eat
> 4 or 5 a day. One day I found the remaining Oto fighting over a wafer with
> the two SAEs. This is very strange, since the Otos would not touch the
> wafers in the past.

[Koi-lo]

"Liz McGuire" > wrote in message
...
> Bill,
>
> I couldn't get my otos (also new) to eat the wafers until the algae
> was gone, so I think it's a preference kinda thing - once the yummy
> stuff is gone, they'll settle for wafers. :-)
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When the algae in my tank was gone they refused all other foods and died.
:-(

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[Mean_Chlorine]

Thusly "Bill Stock" > Spake Unto All:

>4 or 5 a day. One day I found the remaining Oto fighting over a wafer with
>the two SAEs. This is very strange, since the Otos would not touch the
>wafers in the past.

Otos eat wafers (once they've figured out the wafers are food, which
may take quite some time) but do not defend/monopolize food the way
ancistrus and SAE's do, and tend to get bullied & excluded from the
food by SAE's. You may have seen exactly that.