The Oto Journal

05/30: Another disaster strikes after a water change. This time though it was not of my doing or bad water. We lost power today. Power line went down out there somewhere. We were out for over three hours. Only visible casulties found were (3) yellow shrimp. Not a whole lot of activity like before, but I did see quite a few baby oto's and baby shrimp lingering about.

One area of interest....seems baby oto's as well like zuccini. They are all over two of the pieces. These pieces have been sitting in the tank for a couple of days. They were blanced extremely well...over (6) mins. Kind of kewl watchin them work it over.
 
Pics from today. Wanted to get some with the little ones workin over the zuc.

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Keep up the great work with them! Maybe the key to getting them interested in zuchinni in the first place is to make it really, really soft. Just watch your filter with the soft zuchinni, it can slime it up pretty good!
 
06/02 Had to shift some plants on the top around. Still haven't haven't found the time to prune. The ricca carpet floating up top has grown considerably. May have to split it. Another smaller one has formed. Hopefully can get in there and prune tomorrow.

On the baby front, quite a bit of activity around today. Swarming all over the place. Still counted (8) little ones (as they were on the glass). Couple of swimmers so it's hard to get an accurate count.

Mama was REALLY busy. Found (16) eggs. This is the largest batch I have seen. I think I may be on to something on their breeding. Their activity has been very tight the past two days. When I checked today (after the discovery) they were at seperate ends. Will continue to monitor this behavior.

Had to turn on the airstone to break up the surface. Co2 needs recharging as well. Water test pending.
 
06/02

Water Test Results:
Temp: 74
PH: ~7.4
NO3: 20
NO2 and NH3 ~ 0
KH: 6
GH: 10

Attribute NitrAte drop due to lack of fert dosing. I stopped dosing dry ferts until I can trim and take back control.
 
06/03: Big storms rolled through last night knocking out power. Was down for another three hour period. When power was restored, I only checked to make sure the filter was running. Will access any damage later today.
 
More eggs....How excellent! keep up the good work. :thumbsup:
 
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