biofilm surfaces
Otos live on biofilm: algae, diatoms, fungal and algal spores, plus lots of attached ("sessile") single-celled organisms. Plants provide great surfaces for these green meadows of biofilm. But other surfaces would do: stones and cobbles, wood and twigs and fallen leaves.
Question: when Otos root around in detritus, are they still mostly picking algae off the shredded surfaces? Or are they eating detritus particles themselves? A patient fishkeeper with good eyesight and a magnifier might have good answers.
Of course we'realways helping out, with spirulina tablets and shredded spinach and zucchini slices. Do these good things count as detritus in the natural world? They would in a week or so...
Otos thrive in dense jungley tanks on the whole.
Otos live on biofilm: algae, diatoms, fungal and algal spores, plus lots of attached ("sessile") single-celled organisms. Plants provide great surfaces for these green meadows of biofilm. But other surfaces would do: stones and cobbles, wood and twigs and fallen leaves.
Question: when Otos root around in detritus, are they still mostly picking algae off the shredded surfaces? Or are they eating detritus particles themselves? A patient fishkeeper with good eyesight and a magnifier might have good answers.
Of course we'realways helping out, with spirulina tablets and shredded spinach and zucchini slices. Do these good things count as detritus in the natural world? They would in a week or so...
Otos thrive in dense jungley tanks on the whole.
