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Haven't looked at enough to sex them yet. LFS here hardly ever has them available..so I snatched up 6 they got in (although my female betta in the tank killed one of these, she is now removed!)..and 12 more they were able to get the following weak..at under $2 a piece. Question is.. I have a few Ottos left in the tank..so far they are leaving they Pygmies alone.and even schooling at times with them, but if I hope to breed..should i plan on moving the Ottos to another tank? Read that Pygmies ignore their eggs ..but i doubt the ottos would. This is a 20 gal (long) planted tank. I know I need to put a sponge over the filter intake..for one. Besides the ottos, they are the only inhabitants since big bad betta girl was removed to another locale..and I can easily put the ottos in another larger community tank I have that already has some ottos.

Ottos are almost one-hundred percent herbivorous though, and they won't go after fish eggs like many other Loricariids will. It doesn't seem like they would eat any C. pygmaeus eggs, simply because ottos don't care about meaty foods at all. I really doubt that you'll have problems with the ottos in there. However, if anybody with actual experience with Otocinclus in an egg-layer breeding tank can prove otherwise, then listen to them and not me.

Last edited by sirbooks at 20-Sep-2005 21:21

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I know in some places it states that they are herbivores, but the ottos i have seen have always like bloodworms and other meaty foods..and I've had a number of well fed that were slime suckers,some to a point of being little pests. We'll see..they'd be great to leave in for algage control.