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Re: [APD] Plant safe algae eaters
>I've read in a few reasonably reliable places that otos are caught with
>cyanide. They live in plant-clogged areas and can't be netted. Too
>much cyanide, and they don't recover and just waste away. The best
>thing to do is find some that have been in LFS for a while, or look for
>the occasional shipment of higher-priced, tank-raised fish. The next
>trick is not keeping too many of them, and only adding them if there is
>visible algae in the tank. They often refuse to eat anything but soft
>algae, so they'll slowly starve in a tank that's too clean. Once I get
>them past the first month or two, otos usually live 3-5 years for me,
>longer than Amanos.
That would make sense as they seem to last a while, then show up as
little white corpses in about the amount of time I've read marine
fish collected with cyanide die in.
Charming.
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