Talk:Otocinclus

message: Lots of opinions on this fish.  I am going to get a few from my local fish store to try them out.  When I follow the links I see much disparity of facts on this fish.  Seems to good to be true: an algae eater that won't grow beyond two inches.  For such a miracle fish you would think that there would be encyclopeadic tombs written.  But, alas, no.  Can anyone contribute something, anything, substantive, here?  Please. Anthronify 04:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

message: Uploaded this image, but didn't have the time to add to article. 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otocinclus.jpg  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Graham73may (talk • contribs) 20:13, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The color balance looks peculiarly blue. --Tryptofish (talk) 13:23, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dwarf Otocinclus 

message: FishBase, used as a reference in this article, does not use initials in author citations for any of the species in this genus (Scientific Names where Genus Equals Otocinclus); neither does Catalog of Fishes, another major fish database which FishBase itself very often uses as a reference regarding taxonomy & nomenclature (Species in the genus Otocinclus).
From the WP article on author citation:
:"If the same surname is common to more than one author, initials are sometimes given" but "not all animal groups / databases use this convention" and "it should be noted that in the examples given in the Code and also the ICZN Official Lists and Indexes, initials are not used". XenoVon (talk) 10:05, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Author citation 

message: Discovered several algae-eating baby sucker fish in my external filter 3 days ago, am I right to guess they are baby otos even though they don't have a black stripe like the adults? Or is this a Chinese butterfly? BACbKA (talk) 11:44, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure, but they seem to have vertical striping, which I would not expect for otos. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:42, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

text: Thanks for posting the adult photos. I don't know the answers to those last two questions, but my gut feeling is that the fry are beaufortia, because the striping pattern matches so closely. In any case, my congratulations on getting this to happen in captivity, which is a very nice accomplishment! --Tryptofish (talk) 13:59, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

text: Good! Yes, it's very clear now that they are not otos. My compliments on your fishkeeping as well as your photographic skills! --Tryptofish (talk) 22:44, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baby otocinclus or Chinese butterfly? 

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message: "Only wild caught Otocinclus are available to hobbyists".
I personally breed them along with tons of other hobbies. This should be deleted. Two secons google search give you hundreds of breeder 6thstreetfisherman (talk) 02:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual incorrect