[Fabian]

Well, otocinclus is rather shooling fish :wink: , look here (it isn’t nice picture) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilnitMs1LRk
Good Bacillariophyceae, Bacillariophyta, Diatomeae eater.

[Fabian]

I think that otocinclus sp. won’t eat the eggs. He is small vegetarian.

[Fabian]

Second photo – I think it might be rotala indica look here – http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rotindica017xw.jpg I have elswhere another photo of indica and rotundifolia and it seems that it is indica on the photo of petford.com. Indica has more rounded leaves than rotundifolia. It’s strange but in nature also rotundifolia can be viewed like this. That’s the problem. Aren’t they the same plants? :wink:

[Fabian]

I think that this is problem of our culture, problem of education, problem of not wanting difficult and sudden changes in our lives, problem of economy, problem of creating new diet, of different interests directed towards making money ( as the problem of catching our “galaxies” in the nature, imagine that Heiko Bleher collected some pseudomugils from the deep forest of Papua and now he says that all the pseudomugils furcatus in our aquariums originate from exactly those catched in one single journey! Isn’t it sounds strange? That is great feat of those aquarists who breed them in captivity. We can stop the collecting the same way, breeding them in our tanks and selling cheaper.) These are hard problems to solve, hard because of ignorance, laziness and always wanting more the easiest way… we are so strange and ambivalent creatures It is sad but also our “galaxies” were food for some people in Myanmar. And probably they still are. This is my first post on this forum, it is sad but I hope that we breed these wonderful fish enough to end collecting them in nature. Maybe that’s why are we here for? – To save them?…

PS – don’t blame the exporters, they really don’t know what they do… We need only few fish guys… not 15.000

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