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
Thanks,
genral72
Do Otos eat your plants?
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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
Mark
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.