Update on my odoe

[Aronus]

Doing very well in my 200. Eats 3-6 dozen feeders a week. Can't get him to eat anything else. Very aggressive and very spooky at the same time. Around 9-10 inches long, still real young, only 5 months or so old. Been very interesting raising my first odoe.

 

[MHDevelopments]

Mine shows no aggression to any tank mates but sure is nervous and very jumpy. Water changes are very stressful for him

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Its more calm if you have a shoal of them, I used to have a shoal 9x juv odoe in a heavy planted tank they are come to glass begging for food when i'm in the room, they are a lot more skittish with open space setup tank. Also, these odoe don't like strong water current so keep it low as possible.

 

[Aronus]

Mine shows no aggression to any tank mates but sure is nervous and very jumpy. Water changes are very stressful for him

Yeah mine is very jumpy as well! Freaks out when I try to watch them. And yes water changes are stressful on it as well. It's tore my payara up pretty bad twice now but he has healed ok. I think it's the shininess of the tat. The odoe won't bother my purple wolf at all.

 

[MHDevelopments]

Yeah mine is very jumpy as well! Freaks out when I try to watch them. And yes water changes are stressful on it as well. It's tore my payara up pretty bad twice now but he has healed ok. I think it's the shininess of the tat. The odoe won't bother my purple wolf at all.

I wish I could say mine tore something up, anything apart from the water whenever I get remotely close to the tank

 

[moe214]

Give them time, after about a month mine was coming to the front of the glass begging for food. Showed no aggression till a few weeks ago but my curupira put him in his place. All is settled now.

 

[HarleyK]

Juvenile odoe get along fine. In my experience, they start getting skittish, even in a group, around 4''. Still get along fine at that point.
Trouble starts when they start to courtship, and other odoe will not be tolerated in the tank once a pair has formed. I made those observations even with sufficient plants and hiding spots.

As for the live food: cut-up frozen krill has worked wonders for me, on a couple of different batches of odoe. Even though they can devour huge feeders, I found that transitioning them to krill was best achieved with small (1/8''-1/4'' for your size odoe) krill pieces. My small pikes have started to even pick it off the bottom of the tank. Then transition to pre-soaked sinking carnivore pellets.

Awesome fish