Corbidorbidoodle Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I was watching some of my yellow cherry shrimp doing the weirdest thing. There were two sort of floating around fighting. One was pretty much taking a beating, so I thought it was dead and the other one was eating it. Then another joined in, and I was just figuring circle of life. Then they broke it up and the "dead" one swam up to a leaf and started eating. Now, maybe I sound like a kindergartner, cuz maybe they weren't "fighting", but I didn't think that's how cherry shrimps went about that activity. Lemme know if I'm wrong, please. Oh, I didn't get a picture of the fighting or whatever, but here's a pic of some of the shrimp involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 They may have a tugging match with a piece of food, but I've never seen them actually fight. I see a nice female in the picture. Is it possible it was males trying to fertilize the eggs that a female was carrying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corbidorbidoodle Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) I was just being coy. Maybe that's what they do in the actual process of breeding. The female at the top of the pic was the one I thought was being eaten, and the male involved is on the ground in the lower left of the pic. But I can't find any info about shrimps actually doing the nasty. Just info about how to get them to breed and what to do with the babies. When they were doing whatever they were doing, it was one sort of limp shrimp that'd flail about occasionally, and then the other shrimp climbing all over it. I'm pretty sure the limp shrimp was a female. It looked dead to me, but that's probably because she had just molted, so she was just floppy. The other shrimp was most likely a male, so they were probably making babies. Ew. (jk) Edited June 21, 2022 by Corbidorbidoodle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Awhile back I caught this on camera. It was definitely mating as the following day the girl was berried. It looks brutal though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corbidorbidoodle Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 Yeah, that's definitely what I saw. Reminds me of Sr Prom. (not really, I was reading Lord of the Rings in highschool) Thanks for the video! Looking forward to some baby yellows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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