otocinclus?

[christine]

I have 2 gold platies, 1 silver mollie. I was thinking about adding an otociclus ( no sure of the spelling ) however, my water is slightly brackish. 1 tbsp salt in a 10 gal tank. Can the otocinclus survive in an enviornment like this?
Thanx!!!!!

 

[jjsdad]

Otos are fresh water only !!

 

[Kissifish]

Scaleless fish can tolerate the salt well if at all. It burns their skin.

What you could do though is ween your other fish off the salt gradually, they don't actually need it, and then, add otos. Just be sure you get otos and not "algae eaters" which are sometimes passed off as otos and are really Siamese Algae eaters.

BTW, I have mollies and otos together with no salt.

 

[Feline]

I wish siamese algae eaters r as easy to find as otocinclus!!

1 tablespoon salt in 10 gallon is fine for ur oto imo.

 

[pharoh08]

no ottos they do terrible in salt , they wont last long, and your right mollies dont need, salt but they live longer and are healtheir with it. there are alot of cases of mollies being keep in fresh, and and i forgot it also lowers there amune system.

for salt get some gobbies they dont do the cleanup work but do look cool and are brackish