Thanks! Will give them a call when i knock off :P
Hopefully weekend still have leftover for me ahah.
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<insert expletive> cheapo china TEM chiller started giving me problems since Monday morning. Had been fine for over a month until it chose to kick in at way higher temperatures by itself sometimes 29c !! <insert expletive again>!!!
Current casualties:
- 1 Zebra Oto
- 1 yamato (or was it a red nose I can't confirm as the blue CPO cum suspected crayfish was chomping on it)
- 3 CRS.
Thankfully the wet weather past few days helped a bit and I also managed to stabilize the temp to around 27c by supplementing with my Ista crossflow fan which I didn't manage to sell in AQ marketplace(maybe a blessing in disguise). I have decided to search for a real chiller now with all these expensive livestock and plants sitting in my tank.
So in answer to your question Bro Dscheng. Left 2 Zebras Otos now.
Off-topic : Bro, if you haven't been to C328, you just have to set aside sometime for a trip there man! It's like one of those shops in Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter movies. Stock from top of ceiling to bottom with narrow lanes full of curiosities!
Last edited by ZIr; 6th May 2015 at 11:19.
I think oto can survive at that temp, shud be no prob
That shit Cray!
Don't worry, I believe my zebra Oto most probably died due to fluctuating parameters. 1st the temp swing up and down due to <insert expletive> cheapo TEM chiller. Then when I used fan to supplement, evaporation was like 2L+. God knows how the inhabitants felt.
I'm keeping another 2 normal Otos in my balcony (transferred out from main tank when the Zebra Otos arrived) in a shallow bare 2L tank with (no chiller/ fan/ filter.. nothing) which I'm using to grow fissidens on rocks. Temperature there can exceed 30c when full sunlight. They are doing ok so far last I checked this morning.
HBK, i been to C328 many time. Really super messy, basically thing anyhow throw here and that and not to mention the crowd. Especially weekend. Time to invest into compressor chiller ! No regret, i on like 12 hour daily, electricity bill like less than 10 bucks?
Chiller not meant to on for the whole day?
That shit Cray!
Otos can tolerate 29-30°C temperatures, some of my planted tanks with otos regularly peak at those higher temperatures during hot afternoons, and the fishes are still okay.
The main thing is to ensure that they are already healthy when first bought from the LFS (ie. active with rounded tummies, no injuries), they must be properly and slowly acclimated to your tank conditions (ie. extended drip acclimation), the tank must be a mature setup with stable parameters, and there must be sufficient natural algae and bio-film for them to graze on (otherwise you need to constantly supplement their diet with algae wafers and blanched vegetable slices).
Note that zebra otos are generally much larger in size than normal otos, so they need much more food supply to sustain them over the long term.
Got two from there. Was circling polyart thinking its c328 lol.Got the boss to help me fish two. Look very diff frm pictures on the internet...
They will usually look pale and washed out in LFS tanks and during initial introduction into a new tank... but once they acclimate and settle in with good water conditions, combined with an ample diet of algae, their bold black and white striped patterns will become alot more distinct.
Mine look fatter at the head than your pictures LOL
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