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keithgh
 
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I have just purchased a small container of "Shrimp Pellets Formula" and noticed as soon as I put a few in they dissolved very quickly. I also noticed very few Cherry Red Shrimps were eating them.

I have also noticed during the later afternoon the shrimps seem to come out to play. Seeing this I decided to try a different feeding pattern.

I dropped 1 pellet into a area where the shrimps usually are. Within a few seconds the Khuli Loaches took over this spread the breaking up pellet around. The Cardinal Tetras picked up the fine pieces floating around and about the shrimps had a field day cleaning up all the little scraps.
BUT there was some thing very strange there were 14-16 shrimps at the gathering and all were females. The only males in site were in and around the Anubias nana, half a tank away.

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hahaha sounds cool maybe the females just kicked the males out? wat ever the reson is it sounds intersting
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Hi Keith,
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keithgh
 
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I tried the same time feeding next day and a very similar behaviour happened again. I think there could be one male CRS there.
I tried to take a photo but very difficult to do.

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The pattern you are noting is something that I have seen in my tank also. I am not sure why it happens either but it seems that there isn't a lot of mixing of genders at feeding time.

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I noticed today when I dropped 1 pellet there were a few males around close to where the pellet landed. After the khuli's finished the males were still there but out came the females and actually pushed the males away.

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I have so many shrimps and babies I am up to 4 pellets now.
Never noticed if males were stand offish tho. I will have to watch next time.
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