Re: Ottos and fry

["ALEX PASTOR" <alexp@idirect.com>]

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From: IDMiamiBob@aol.com <IDMiamiBob@aol.com>
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 10:02 AM
Subject: Ottos and fry


>I have this ten gallon tank I was setting up for plants.  I dropped a pair
of
>cacatuoides in it to build up some nitrates a couple days before the
planats
>arrive.  The plants were late in shipping and now i have a female and
thrity
>or so fry in a brightly lit, non-planted tank.  Well, almost non-planted.
>Hair algae has sprung up (can't imagine why :-)).  I am thinking of tossing
in
>some otocincluis cats, since they have always done a great job with this
stuff
>in the past.  Anyone out there have any experience with whether ottos will
eat
>fry?  SAEs are not available in the area, and I am hesitant to order any in
as
>I can't guarantee that that is really what I will get.
>
>Bob Dixon
>
Ottos won't eat fry, although the female cacatoides does not know that.  She
will probably kill them in an unplanted 10 gallon tank.  Ottos don't eat
hair algae either.  But a little hair algae is not such a bad thing.  It
provides a place for micro-organisms to flourish, because it traps things.
If it's too abundant it may trap fry.

Alex


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