{"id":219,"date":"2006-05-10T22:26:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T22:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/05\/little-otto\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T22:26:39","slug":"little-otto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/05\/10\/little-otto\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Otto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven\u2019t been seeing Otto much for nearly a week now, and we suspected that he was most likely hiding somewhere in the tank and only appearing when the lights were off. However, several days ago when Otto finally did appear, Ling observed that he look tremendously pale and had lost much of his body colouration. Yesterday he wasn\u2019t swimming around very much any more, spending most of his time lying very weakly on the gravel. He finally expired today at around 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure what happened since the other critters seem to be doing OK, although Tinny and Patches seem to be losing a few of their scales (they haven\u2019t lost their appetites yet). It\u2019s possible that his source of food &#8211; algae &#8211; has diminished though, and while I did try feeding him small bits of Hikari algae wafers, he didn\u2019t seem to take to them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image54\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2006-Aquarium-PICT0909-otto.jpg\" alt=\"2006-Aquarium-PICT0909-otto.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rest in peace, Otto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven\u2019t been seeing Otto much for nearly a week now, and we suspected that he was most likely hiding somewhere in the tank and only appearing when the lights were off. However, several days ago when Otto finally did<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/05\/10\/little-otto\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Little Otto<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquarium-pets","wpcat-5-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}