SnowyzMom
Fishaholic
A few months ago I rescued a couple of teeny Ottocinclus's (or is it Ottochinclus? My brain! argh 
). Anyways I think they'd been forgotten at the lfs...one was in an empty lightsout tank and I almost didn't see it hiding on the only piece of plastic wood in there 
. The other was alone in a mixed fish tank. They also had tanks with groups of much larger ottos in them so I was thinking these two got overlooked. As I was needing to buy about 5 ottos anyways I included those two in the batch and the store clerk was really surprised to see them in those tanks when I asked for them specifically, which supports my theory they got forgotten and not fed .
The question since then is: they are thriving in my 29 gallon along with 2 other ottos(or 3, maybe, but one is always vanishing on me! ). However those two have never grown at ALL. Could they have been starved too long? Can you have runt ottos? I have a runt cat I rescued, never did grow very big but healthy as all get out.
Anybody got any experience with this? Just curious.
). Anyways I think they'd been forgotten at the lfs...one was in an empty lightsout tank and I almost didn't see it hiding on the only piece of plastic wood in there . The other was alone in a mixed fish tank. They also had tanks with groups of much larger ottos in them so I was thinking these two got overlooked. As I was needing to buy about 5 ottos anyways I included those two in the batch and the store clerk was really surprised to see them in those tanks when I asked for them specifically, which supports my theory they got forgotten and not fed .The question since then is: they are thriving in my 29 gallon along with 2 other ottos(or 3, maybe, but one is always vanishing on me!
). However those two have never grown at ALL. Could they have been starved too long? Can you have runt ottos? I have a runt cat I rescued, never did grow very big but healthy as all get out.Anybody got any experience with this? Just curious.
