undercutter
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- May 9, 2011
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now I have 16 gallons planted tank with a betta, 6 oto cats, about 8 cherry shrimp and 2 assassin snails
it was impossible to feed my cories because betta would go for their sinking pallets until he was completely bloated so I would have to quarantine him in a net each time which was a pain, feeding at night didn't make any difference either
it seems to work out because I have significant algae growth for some reason, even though it's a low light 18 watt set-up with no fertilizer. still have brown algae diatoms after 6 months even though it doesn't seem to grow much anymore, and if I don't clean the glass for a month I get green growth on the glass which I have to scrape off with a metal scraper
it's been almost 2 weeks and otos keep eating algae and completely ignore an algae wafer if I drop it in so they must be getting enough food
I think I'm going to crush a piece of algae wafer in water once a week and put it in the tank just to give them something extra to suck on, as well as for shrimp and snails, since I'm not feeding bottom feeders directly they still need something to eat I assume?
oto cats
my betta
the tank
it was impossible to feed my cories because betta would go for their sinking pallets until he was completely bloated so I would have to quarantine him in a net each time which was a pain, feeding at night didn't make any difference either
it seems to work out because I have significant algae growth for some reason, even though it's a low light 18 watt set-up with no fertilizer. still have brown algae diatoms after 6 months even though it doesn't seem to grow much anymore, and if I don't clean the glass for a month I get green growth on the glass which I have to scrape off with a metal scraper
it's been almost 2 weeks and otos keep eating algae and completely ignore an algae wafer if I drop it in so they must be getting enough food
I think I'm going to crush a piece of algae wafer in water once a week and put it in the tank just to give them something extra to suck on, as well as for shrimp and snails, since I'm not feeding bottom feeders directly they still need something to eat I assume?
oto cats
my betta
the tank