Hey guys nice forum glad i found it. So hmm here's whats going on. My tank finished cycling a few days ago took 17 days. well i have 6 fat healthy oto cats since the beginning. the 10gallon is dedicated to them lots of plants and caves and such waters always at 80dagrees i supplement there diet with zucchini. Well on day 19 around 4 pm after about 8 hours of light on i notices what looked like hundred of dust particles coming from the top left corner. at closer inspection i noticed 2 types of creatures one of witch look and act like lil otos sucking onto the glass and mimicking the swimming behavior of them they seem to be getting bigger and i def can see little suckers they seem to be growing up just fin 3 days into it the other creatures look like lil squiggly worms from what I've read there benign. and when the lil otos get bigger gravel cleaning should take care of them. my question i guess is could these seemingly oto fry be some sort of mite or what. any advice in raising fry / what they could or could not be is welcomed. thanks for your time..
Oto Cat Fry?
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Interesting. From what I've heard oto cats are extremely hard, if not impossible to breed in captivity. What other fish do you have in the tank?
Congrats! I only know 2 other people that have successfully raised their oto fry, I've had oto eggs before but the community tank ate them all before I had the chance of moving them.
Just keep feeding them zuchini, while the zuchini is in the water it will feed the infusoria present and that will multiply and the fry can feed on both those and the zuchini.
They grow at a fairly fast rate, the most recent person I talked to who has had them breed had them go from tiny/miniscule things to identical adolescent seeming otos (with stripes, they are more banded at a young age than the parents in the pics) in about 2 months.
Just keep feeding them zuchini, while the zuchini is in the water it will feed the infusoria present and that will multiply and the fry can feed on both those and the zuchini.
They grow at a fairly fast rate, the most recent person I talked to who has had them breed had them go from tiny/miniscule things to identical adolescent seeming otos (with stripes, they are more banded at a young age than the parents in the pics) in about 2 months.