I have some sad news that I just wanted to share with everyone. Yesterday while dropping an algae wafer into my 29 gal. for the otos and gouramis, I found one of my zebra otos dead 
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An algae wafer had landed in a crevice between a large piece of driftwood and the glass a couple of days before. I didn't have anything handy to remove it with, and didn't want to move stuff all around and disturb the tank, so it stayed there. On Saturday I had noticed one of the zebras trying to get at it, but unfortunately I didn't think much of it (in retrospect that should have been a red flag).
Well last night, I found it there.....wedged into the crevice and quite dead. I don't know how long it had struggled, but it managed to cram itself in there very tightly in the process. I feel terrible about it, and can't help but feel guilty.
These fish are quite hard to come by, and I was so glad to get healthy, robust stock. This was such a terrible loss :sad
Well, thanks for letting me vent. I guess I should be glad that the remaining three zebras are very healthy and doing great. I'm now considering doing some tank rearrangement though.
!An algae wafer had landed in a crevice between a large piece of driftwood and the glass a couple of days before. I didn't have anything handy to remove it with, and didn't want to move stuff all around and disturb the tank, so it stayed there. On Saturday I had noticed one of the zebras trying to get at it, but unfortunately I didn't think much of it (in retrospect that should have been a red flag).
Well last night, I found it there.....wedged into the crevice and quite dead. I don't know how long it had struggled, but it managed to cram itself in there very tightly in the process. I feel terrible about it, and can't help but feel guilty.
These fish are quite hard to come by, and I was so glad to get healthy, robust stock. This was such a terrible loss :sad
Well, thanks for letting me vent. I guess I should be glad that the remaining three zebras are very healthy and doing great. I'm now considering doing some tank rearrangement though.
