New acquisition for the A. cacatuoide community tank

[jose_vogel]

I´ve a community tank for the A. cacatuoide and I bought 5 individuals of this beauties which will share cacatuoide´s tank.

They´re Otocinclus cocama and I paid U$S 12 for each directly from the importer.

 

[ed seeley]

Lovely! I really like these and keep toying with getting a bunch for my planted tank, but the price puts me off!

 

[jose_vogel]

Which is the price in the UK?

 

[ed seeley]

Which is the price in the UK?

Only £7 plus delivery from an online place or around £12 from my LFS. It's just that I'd want a nice half dozen! :biggrin:

 

[chris1932]

This is one of my favorite fish.

 

[cageman]

Super fish!
I have 25 of them swimming in a single tank.

 

[georgedv]

I have had problems keeping more then five in tanks 29gal and up. They just die. I feed spirulina tabs, flakes or frozen cube once a day...I watch the food sink (always in the same corner). Most of the time I an see them eating there.

They are not territorial to compete with the dwarfs in the tank. I have not been able to figure it out.


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[cageman]

I always make sure there is some Courgette/Zuccini or Cucumber for them to snack on.
They really appreciate it. In the beginning there were two losses, all the rest is still swimming and happy.
The tank is 150L.

 

[ProAquatics]

very nice,they would be a rare find in my area.looks good

 

[grumpy55]

I put a dozen Otos in a 55 gallon tank with my Cacatoos, and the Cacatoos killed every one of them in two days.

 

[dw1305]

Otocinclus and A. cacatuoides

Hi all,
I'm interested in the Apistogramma cacatuoides killing your Otocinclus. I've kept them together for several years, and the Apistogrammas totally ignore the Otocinclus (probably O. mariae), the only time I've ever seen them interact is when a female has free-swimming fry in a pit under some bog-wood etc and if the Otocinclus are resting within the pit, the female will peck at them till they move. It's not a very "fish on fish" interaction, its more in the way she picks up bits of grit and MTS and spits them (at the boundary of the pit).

The Otocinclus have also successfully spawned and raised fry in the tank with both A. cacatuoides and Black Neon Tetra "dithers". One thing I have found is that they are now entirely nocturnal, and do relatively little leaf or glass cleaning.

I've managed to keep the same 4 Ottos in a 60 litre tank for several years.
I think its because I keep a very weedy tank, with lots of cover and I tend to ignore the algae and mulm. Like Cagemans they always have a slice of either cucumber or courgette available (embedded with "spirulina rich" plec pellets), and after lights out they will be feeding on it every every night.

cheers Darrel