Me too.. Sorry for your loss.. These are very beautifull and rare to find Oto's..
My lfs has them sometimes... but they are expensive too... I've had him since March of 2017...
Me too.. Sorry for your loss.. These are very beautifull and rare to find Oto's..
Ficus pumila to add to the stump on the left and they never seem to take from stem cuttings... it's root or nothing...
Bottle trap?I wish I could get them out of there...
Small fish are usually happier with as much cover as possible, partially because it breaks up "line of sight".Good grief... open space means maximum velocity for the remaining Celestichthys choprae to chase and harass the other fish...
Great to see updates on this one
I still think your H polysperma isn’t all that happy - do you have soft or hard tap water?
Hi all, Small fish are usually happier with as much cover as possible, partially because it breaks up "line of sight".
I actually prefer tanks where you can't see all the fish easily.
cheers Darrel
I'm not saying it is a poor environment for them, it is a wonderful tank, and even if it didn't have any submersed plants it would still be better in terms of fish welfare than 99% of other tanks.Either way, the open space is actually only about half the tank space in total... there's plenty of hiding spots they utilize in and behind the hardscape...
This is sort of it.i watched the fish for a long time and they still seemed skitish because they were all so separated... now that it's open the kubotai are schooling out in the open
As far as it being an anthropomorphic idea, sure, but I was taking the idea based on some species like danios needing open space to swim... before I set up this tank I watched a lot of YouTube videos of the natural habitats in Burma and other asian countries... marginal vegetation along with a border of crypt species and then open water seemed to prevail the small fish seemed to flit about in the open and dart back into cover and come out again... in the case of lake Inle where cpds are from there's a lot of floating hornwort ect so I can see that being beneficial but ugly from a aquascape standpoint...
But either way, when I added the kubotai as dither fish, the game changed... I believe the Asian rummy nose or Sabwa resplendens takes that chore at lake Inle, but I don't like the look of those guys or their behaviour... I was actually looking at them yesterday at the my lfs...
Maybe if you could plant some more lower growing plants such as crypts or maybe echinodorus tennellus that way your fish get the best of both worlds, open water up top but plenty of cover on the bottom for the cpds.
Cheers
Conor
I still think your H polysperma isn’t all that happy - do you have soft or hard tap water?