I was playing with the new camera today, and mainly taking photos of my new betta, but I got some tropicals as well. Sorry for the quality, especially the glassy eyes. I'm not sure why it does that

Anyways, here are my black neon tetras.


And here is my pair of otos. I don't think I've posted their photo here before. They are in their usual day-time position here.

Cool photos! How big is your tropical tank?

So sweet and shiny . You take good clear focused pics!

Nice pictures Kissy, the Otos look so sweet

Great pic of the black neons Kissy.

I liked the fish Kissy,and I thought the pics were pretty darn nice too.What's the whole tank look like?

Oh man! I just saw that my oto photo was cut off. I'll go fix that cuz there's 1.5 more oto in the original lol. Thanks for the compliments everyone. They live in a 10 gallon so it is kind of small, but everyone seems happy. My final addition will be a sparkling gourami, and she's in qt right now. Does anyone else have otos? Do they spend most of the daytime in a certain spot? If I check on them after the lights go out that is when they are exploring over the tank. I know they're nocturnal, I just want to know if this is normal since they seem more active in the fish stores.

What's the rest of my tank look like? A mess, that's what! I still haven't been able to kill that darn blue-green algae. Its particularly bad in this photo since I hadn't cleaned or syphoned yet, so you can actually see some of it in there. Here's a photo of my tank several months ago before the algae issue.



It will look a lot different in a couple weeks. I'm doing a black-out soon and hopefully that will be the last of the algae. I threw that driftwood out long ago because it was rotting when I bought it and didn't realize it. I have new resin driftwood that even looks better. I plan to put that in, attach some new anubias and my lace-tipped java fern to that and another rock in the corner. The vals have actually perked up a lot since I started adding more ferts and excell, but I'm going to get rid of the 2-3 dieing plants and add some anacharis.

Here is the oto picture again:

they look great kissy

I love that tank nice tetras toooo

Beautiful fish Kissy.I love the otto's.Funny you should say usual daytime place my hong kong plecs hang out in same place during day in my goldie tank.I always know where to find them.

Oh Cool and what good pics

Pretty fish, and I love the tank too. Really great pics!!!

Awww the ottos are cute and the black neons are adorable. lovely tank.

Black Neons are great aren't they? They school really well I think!

your fish are beauitful kissy and your tank is gorgeous! I'm so jealous of people with planted tanks

like you i like black neon i just posted i got 1 baby black neon sometime today was a surprise to me

Thanks everyone *blush*

Bruce, did they breed for you?

Great looking fish, Kissy! I guess I'll have to look around for the gourami and betta pics?

Thanks Justin There are loads of new betta photos, but I can't tank a photo of my new gourami yet. She's in a rubbermaid qt and she's such a shy little thing. I have a photo of her tank if that counts? No fish though lol.

Yea, I saw that after posting here. I'm disappointed kissy... you should know better I'll get over it tho.
I'm still trying to find the betta pics. Hmm, maybe I'll try the betta section next. If there still is one ?! The board looks so different than I remember.

thats pretty cool

Do your Otos hide? I've had one for about 4 years and he's about 5-6 inches and all he does is hide in a little cave thingie in his tank. I've tried taking it out but when i do he somehow manages to move the gravel out from underneath the larger rockes i have in his tank.

I don't think you've got an otocinclus...those guys max out at 2". Maybe you can start your own thread to help identify him? I photo would definately help if you can get one.

Ok if i can get him out of his little house thingie i will post a picture of him. That's odd thoug, the guy at the pet store said that's what he was...oh well lol i'm sure i'll figure him out.