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well in a 10 gallon i had 2 female 3 male ottos, 1 ram, and guppies...well i moved all the fish to an empty 29 gallon took out the decorative rocks (not the gravel)and plastic plants....well i dont know why, but i was just looking around the bottom of the tank, and saw somthing jumping around the gravel, i later discovered i had a breeding colony of water fleas, i see males females and tiny babys, but then, i see somthing diffrent, it looks like a tiny fry! i am guessing its an otto fry if it is one, i used my micro scope to look closer and it just kept looking for fryish, can some one explain what an otto fry would look like? it looks bigger than the big female daphinia with the eggs, it also looks like there r small wheite mayb eggs littering some areas, but not on the glass, im not sure what it is,


how do i care for the daphinia? i do not want to move them, and i want to breed bettas and put the fry in there, i have 2 older betta fry that i had wanted to put in there but if there r ottos fry, will the bettas eat the fry?

can i still do water changes? im affariad to do gravel vacs, but can i fill the tank up with water from another tank with a brown algae problem?

not sure about the fry, but u can do just water changes, useing a cup and bucket.

How are you sexing your otos? Shape is not always accurate. I'm sure you'll know if you have oto fry--they hang onto ornamentation with their disks as do all loricariids. and have a distinct vertical striping on their tails, which will evetually be replaced by the horizontal body stripe commonly seen in o. vittatus.

how big r they when they hatch? and i can see the eggs in the females, they appear slightly orange, and i havent fed anyhting orangy in weeks, also, the other 3 r thin, and dont have the orangy appearance..

If your females are in breeding condition, the ovipositor should show. I've never myself witnessed my otos breed, though--new additions always seem to pop up. I do notice, however, from time to time with my flexilis, what I assume to be VERY gravid females with ovipositors jutting out. The next day, said fish has retracted any and all papilia and is noticeably thinner. Still no fry from them, though; only the vittatus.

Good luck with the young oto; they are quite easy to care for in that you really don't need to. Don't worry about it, and let it contently rasp off awfuchs deposited on your aquarium surfaces. What's more; when there's one, there are probably more. .

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 15-Aug-2005 15:22

i do hope so insted of risking it and adding the older betta fry, i just seperated them in a floating container, i will continue to moniter the tanks inhabitants