Have you thought about breeding Parotocinclus haroldoi (Galaxy otocinclus) or maybe the Panda Garra ,new challenge for you

There growing well ,your the pied piper of Otocinclus

At three weeks old now and still going strong by the looks of it ,I'd imagine the tank has a decent amount of algae by now also ,how are the adults doing, any more spawning?

That's good to hear your fry are eating and growing well, there's other alternatives to Bacter Ae which are preferred by the professional Caradina shrimp breeders ,a guy on YouTube shrimpmania explains how bacter ae takes alot of oxygen out of the water and he uses an Asian bacteria which does not ...

Be careful with bacter Ae and Rapashy I had a nitrate spike in my shrimp tank I think was caused by the bacter,and Otos might have digestive problems with to much Rapashy, after losing some of my Otos recently i feel these two foods might of played a role,I would only feed the adult ones this food ...

Do you know the male to female ratio ,and I remember an old oto breeding video on youtube who was using bacopa as a spawning plant !

That's good so far mate,I will be even more impressed if you manage to raise lots of fry ,a small green water tank with driftwood and lots of biofilm was something I was going to try had I got to that stage, keep it going.

Keep us updated, looks positive so far.

Thanks I will check it out,I was thinking if it was the wrong food or to much food then why was it only the gravid females that died,but I've scrapped the breeding project for now and have stopped feeding them frozen foods !

Two more gravid ones aren't looking good today,one looks to have white spot also,I've done a small water change and dosed Esha Exit

I don't see anything wrong with those numbers. And I presume you have a group of these otos, the rest of which are doing okay. A lot of people find big dead female Loricariids and assume they were egg bound, and yet there's another (often indeterminate) cause of death. But with eggs coming out of ...

Tank conditions are soft ro water,tds 130ppm,temp 22 degrees, planted and driftwood PH 6.5 KH 0-1, I put an air stone in and they like staying right above it in the current, Ammonia 0,Nitrite 0,nitrate sometimes gets up around 30-40 ppm then I will do a small water change drip the water back in ...

I found one of my Otos upside down bloated, i went out and got some epsom salt and by the time I got home she was dead,I noticed what could be eggs coming out of her ,I have been trying to condition them over the last couple of weeks feeding them brine shrimp and Rapashy bacter Ae ect ,anyone know ...