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Well, I looked at the 5 gallon this morning without spotting my oto, and I believe I located his carcass behind one of the rocks, but I was unable to retrieve it. So that sucks. I decided to check the water, feeling that perhaps without any water changes, despite the low bio-load, perhaps the water quality had plummeted. A bit to my surprise, I found the pH to be about 7.6, and nitrates to be at or below 10 ppm. Not bad! I'm left to wonder, though, what doomed my oto...

I took my weekly plant cuttings to Alamo, and while purveying the fish selection, I was drawn back to the "curviceps" (I believe they are also called dwarf flag cichlid). They didn't have any female blue rams, so Mona picked me out a male and female curviceps. They colored right up almost as soon as they were put in the tank. While they behave relatively peacefully, not giving the black skirt tetras any grief, I did spy one stalking and attacking a pond snail. I hope the shrimp can avoid their wrath!


Also, when they ate and spit up my fish flakes, I realized I didn't have any cichlid food. I took a frozen block of blood worms and dropped them in the floating basket I had bought a while ago. I'm hoping that will tide them over until I can get to a fish store on Tuesday...