Hello Shrimpers,
Last night I fed an algae wafer for the first time since adding these amazing shrimps to my 125L community tank. I always put the wafer (in two pieces), in the two areas where the otos and the pandas hangout. I do this shortly after adding a small amount of flake for the others, and I have enjoyed watching the ground crew feasting many times on both wafers and catfish pellets. This time, knowing that shrimp like algae, I managed to break the wafer into 5 pieces, and added them to the same areas. What happened next was astonishing - the amanos went straight to the pieces, picked them up and disappeared, leaving the smallest male amano without any (5 into 6 doesn't go). Two largish females had a right "set to" over the biggest piece! Thirty seconds later, not a shrimp to be seen anywhere! Meanwhile, the otos and pandas were looking somewhat bemused! Hopefully, the fish found the leftovers. I am beginning to think that the dominant "fish" in my tank won't be a fish!. A certain Glowlight Danio, who thinks he "rules the roost", is possibly in for a surprise!
Skittler