been a while... trying a few new Otto's

[Magnum Man]

I think I've been reading about several common Otto's, being bred in aquariums... I have a thing for the zebra Otto's and they were recently in stock at Dan's, and I ordered a group... they have been on hold for a week, I just received an e-mail , that they were sent to "the lab" and tested positive for a digestive parasite, and that they should be able to ship them again in 2 weeks... I curious if anyone had had any of the Otto family thriving on their tank, for a few years??? I had one zebra go to almost 2 years a while back... looking forward to trying them again...

 

[MattW]

I have always had a soft spot for Oto's, they are a luck of the draw fish IME, however. I just had the common affinis, I think in total 7 across 3 years or so. I had 3 do very well from 2021-2024 until my paludarium design flaws caused serious injury to 2 of them..

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Any member of the Family Loricariidae I have ever kept save one has thrived in my tanks. The one exception was otocinclus. I must have killed 65 or more vittatus and a few zebra Otos before I realized they were my bug-a-boo fish.

A bug-a-boo species is one which most folks find to be relatively easy to keep but which you cannot. No matter how experience one is and how hard one tries to keep their bug-a-boo fish, we never succeed. So, I did the only humane thing I could, I stopped trying to have otos in any of my tanks

Oddly, I did have one lone vittatus that lived for several years in my high tech planted tank. The one below was a zebra i think?