Is there are reason that p-l-e-c-o-s always get asterisked? Are they a dirty word? :)

I had a couple of big ones in my tank and they ate everything in sight. It was nice that they were thriving so well, but my tank sure looked sorry after a while. I was glad to be able to exchange them for less ...

Oh and BTW, i dont mean to insult your "fish store" but a chinese algae eater and a oto are pretty diferrent...and grossly mislabeled fish usually means some of the employees dont know much about fish...

That's what I figured when I started looking at pics of the chinese algae eaters "Those don't ...

I have mixed feelings about oto cats.... ive had the experience of unexplained initial fatalities. But once they are through the first couple of days they usually are pretty hardy.


saw an interesting possible explanation on why this might be happening at: http://www.otocinclus.com/newoto.html ...

Uh......this store doesnt sound too knowledgable about fish...i really hope you are not buying fish at PETCO or something like that...So do yourself a favor, go to a real fish store...

Actually, this is a "real" fish store, so I was surprised that the fish were that badly mislabelled. However ...

Excellent, this is good to know. Thanks.

I'll see if I can get some more.

The comment about vaccuum cleaners was related to the green
algae that is getting carried away on some of my rocks - I didn't
mean to suggest that catfish are indiscriminate scavengers <grin>.


Thanks again.

Got a couple of these guys a few weeks ago. I was told they were " chinese algae eaters " but having looked them up,
I suspect they are actually otocinclus (dwarf algae eaters?).

They are happy little fish and I'd like to get some more (my 40 gallon tank could use a few more vaccuum cleaners). If ...