"Giant Ottos"

[Robert Flory]

Anyone know anything about "Giant Ottos"? I saw some in my LFS this weekend
when unloading some plants. They didn't know much about them except the
survival rate was higher than regular ottos.

bob

[Dinky]

I've seen Chinese Algae Eaters called these. Avoid them. You may have
seen something else, though.

Do they look like anything on this page?
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/cyprinid.html

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billy
"Robert Flory" > wrote in message
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| Anyone know anything about "Giant Ottos"? I saw some in my LFS
this weekend
| when unloading some plants. They didn't know much about them
except the
| survival rate was higher than regular ottos.
|
| bob
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|

[Dinky]

"Dinky" > wrote in message
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| I've seen Chinese Algae Eaters called these. Avoid them. You may
have


Ooh! Another nice page....
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/saephotos.html

[Robert Flory]

Nope ... like giant ottos.

bob


"Dinky" > wrote in message
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> I've seen Chinese Algae Eaters called these. Avoid them. You may have
> seen something else, though.
>
> Do they look like anything on this page?
> http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/cyprinid.html
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> billy
> "Robert Flory" > wrote in message
> ...
> | Anyone know anything about "Giant Ottos"? I saw some in my LFS
> this weekend
> | when unloading some plants. They didn't know much about them
> except the
> | survival rate was higher than regular ottos.
> |
> | bob
> |
> |
>
>

[Ross Vandegrift]

On 2004-06-03, Robert Flory > wrote:
> Nope ... like giant ottos.

I've seen a couple variants of ottos. Lots of people list them as
"dwarf ottos", so it would make sense that there's a non-dwarf variety.
It's also interesting to note that some of my ottos grow - they're
around 2 inches and as fat as a pencil, while others remain barely an
inch and stay skinny as a twig.

I once had a few "Hong Kong" Ottos that I couldn't find any info on.
They looked like really cool, primordial ottos! Unforutantely, I only
picked up three to add to my tank and none of them made it and I've
never seen them again.

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Ross Vandegrift


"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37

[Mean_Chlorine]

"Robert Flory" > wrote in message >...

> Nope ... like giant ottos.

Well, there's several genera which look a bit like ottos but grow
bigger, but if it was an otto, it was presumably either Otocinclus
flexilis or an presumably undescribed leopard-spotted species which
occasionally show up in shops and which tends to be sold as either O.
flexilis (which they may be) or O. xakriaba (which they're definitely
not).
O. flexilis and the "leopard" grow to about 65 mm TL, about twice the
size of "normal" ottos (mainly O. macrospilus and O. vittatus).

Here's flexilis: http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/Photos/PicturesSummary.cfm?ID=50441&what=species

Here's the "leopard":
http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?p=39733#39733

I have a couple of both, from a mixed shipment purportedly from Sao
Paulo.