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Hi all, just wanted to check and see if anyone else is having issues locally with otocinclus. I picked some up from Petsmart over a year ago when I set up my first tank. I still have one from that batch, and have replaced the others here and there. I'm currently down to one in my 10g and 2 in my 55g. Over the past few weeks they've been extremely hard to come by. I managed to get three from Petsmart a while back (the one in my 10, one of them in the 55 and one died) and they haven't gotten any in the last few weeks. I went to Petco (out of desperation) and they had 1 tiny little one. I felt bad so I brought it home. It seemed to acclimate fine, swam around and ate and frolicked with the others, then after a day and a half there it was stuck to the filter. I called the only reputable LFS to ask if they had any and she told me, very honestly I thought, that they kept ordering them in and having them die off almost entirely after a couple days in quarantine. So they've stopped ordering them for awhile. Anyone else having issues in their area of MI finding otos? I'm hesitant to order them online because I don't want to pay the huge shipping costs unless I know for a fact that they're tank-raised and heartier....