Genral72
06-18-2006, 10:01 AM
I have a heavily planted 30 gallon tank that I would like to get some otos for. I was just wondering if they would eat your plants.
Thanks,
genral72
wesleydnunder
06-18-2006, 10:08 AM
Not that I've ever seen. I've kept otos in all my planted tanks and have them in planted setups now. They're great little algae eaters.
Mark
RockabillyChick
06-18-2006, 10:37 AM
they will eat decaying plant matter, but will not touch the live plants. their mouth parts are not sophistocated enough to eat through the cell wall of a plant. they love brown algae, and will eat green slime algae. if they run out of that, you have to suppliment their diet with blanched veggies (blanching=putting zucchini, green beans, romaine lettuce, cucumber, etc. into a small cup of tank water and nuking it for a minute or so) blanching starts breaking down the cell wall of the veggie so the otos can eat it.