BettaBuddy ~ Miley

I always seem to lose my otos then they just show up in the tank......... i havent found JDT yet but im sure he will show up.... idk..... its weird like the other day i lost DB but he turned up. Miley

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Wait now hes here.......... I think they may hide under the sea shells from Galveston i put in there. idk.... Miley

COBettaCouple

maybe he wants to play hide & seek?

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

LOL!!! I like that movie! :P LOL But ya they disappear then later they are there. Miley

Tom

Mine do that all the time, but they are usually hiding in the java moss and don't want to come out and play.
Tom

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Ya i have NO idea where mine go..... let me go see who i can find........ I found them both.... Miley

jsalemi

I picked up two last Saturday -- one of them is always hanging out near the front of the tank, either right on the glass, or on a plant that's near. He seems to like hanging with the corys. The other one was shy from the beginning, and disappears for long stretches at a time. I rarely see him in the morning, and usually only spot him in the evening.

I'm getting a lunar light for the tank today, so I'm going to be curious to see if the shy one is any more active after 'lights out'.

sirdarksol

In one of my tanks, they disappear and reappear all the time.
However, in my wife's betta's tank, they disappeared and stayed that way. (Ok, I found one of them, or a bit of fuzz that used to be one of them).

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Ok so im not the only one....... its weird how they do that.... Miley

jsalemi

I put in the lunar light last night, and did notice both of them are more active after 'dark'. They've been doing a great job cleaning off the green algae on the tank glass -- now they just need to find the spot or two of brown algae I saw on one of the plastic plants last night...

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Thats great Miley

jsalemi

They must have heard me -- when I got home from work yesterday and checked the tank, every bit of brown algae was gone, and two little fat-and-happy otos were hanging out on some leaves digesting away.

armadillo

Great stuff! Aaaaah, otos. :

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

LOL thats so cute!!! I got a really good pic of one of mine...... Dennis Bubbles. Miley -

COBettaCouple

that's a really cute pic.

Phloxface

They are quite good at disguising themselves as part of the plant stem, part of the heater, part of the gravel etc etc.
So far mine doesn't really hide and spends most of the time right out in the open chomping away at the algae on the driftwood, plants and heater. Sometimes if I can't find him he's just laying really still and if I look hard enough I see him hanging on the back of the filter intake tube or the stem of a plant.

armadillo

I loose my female and fry for hours at a time, but my male is always visible. Go figure.

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Thnx.

Ya idk - mine are always coming and going...... Miley

Tazmiche

Miley in the Asbo tank we have a head count every morning, 5 Cherry barbs ( 3 girls, 2 boys) 4 checkered barbs ( 1 male 3 girls) 4 white clouds ( not sure but i think 2 girls 2 boys) 3 oto's and 'Ugly' the armano shrimp. Most days 2 oto's and ugly will be hiding!! they are monkeys!

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Ya... I wake up or just go in by them and i have to usually search all over for Them LOL

Miley ♥

armadillo

I have the same problem with a fancy pleco we bought, except he's huge and we just don't get how he even fits in his hiding place!

COBettaCouple

he uses a compression algorithm, of course!

armadillo

Mmmmh, techie words, mmmmh.

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

LOL!!!

Miley ♥

COBettaCouple

LOL, control yourself! :P

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

LOL

Sinces ive posted this about them disappearing they havent disapeared as much! ..... little stinkers!!!

Miley ♥

COBettaCouple

do you think skip's been teaching them to be stinkers?

BettaBuddy ~ Miley

Hmmmm....... Possibley.... need to have a LONG talk with him!!!

Miley

kra-z-fishmumm

I had 4 ottos in my 55g, and since the first of last tuesday or Wednesdy, can't find #4! No body parts, no fat fishies, looked everywhere. Do cory cats eat ottos? Had a increase in thier # when my hubby brought two home after being told they were ottos!!!! lol

Amnagrla

I didn't even read the rest of this thread.... I just saw JD Turkleton and laughed so much because I am actually watching "Scrubs" right this very moment!!!!!!

awesomeness.