Lost Oto

[MeganL3985]

Lost one of my oto's today....or yesterday, or recently.....
A body "washed up" onto one of the rocks.....still had a bit of back color, but no head. Not sure how long it was dead, since the last oto that I had die a few months ago was completely jelly like with zero color. Darnit..... :( I guess I can not feel too bad though, since oto losses are fairly common. Especially newly bought ones. But Booooooo anyway.....

[KcEE]

Awww....that's sad...sorry for your loss megan...

[squirt_12]

sorry to hear that megan :11:

[markbob]

Thats unfortunate Meg, was it the one that started out as a loner that you bought the friends for?

[MeganL3985]

No, it was one of the 4 little guys that I bought recently.

[kurly]

I'm so sorry your little oto died Megan. :( Did you say that it's head was missing? Or was that its head was missing color?

[Nick_Pavlovski]

Did this headless corpse look bitten, or like the head was removed too neatly?

[MeganL3985]

It looked either rotted off or ripped off. I dont think the gourami would've done anything though.....they haven't bothered with any of the neons or other oto's. Think something happened? Are dwarf gourami notorious for eating others?

[cocoa_pleco]

i dont think the gourami is the culprit, theyre not too fast so the otto would have been able to get away

[Futureboy]

Boooooooooooooo indeed!

[SkarloeysMom]

Sorry Megan! You're right though. Otos are hard to transition. I was just wondering since your tank is so new that maybe there wasn't too much algae buildup for them to clean. Are you feeding them algae wafers too?

[Nick_Pavlovski]

Hmmm...sorry Megan. Perhaps he was just starting to become infected when you got him.