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I think the victim was a female, but it looked like most of the attackers were females as well. By the way, I was mistaken when I wrote "bloodworms", they are actually frozen cubes of tubifex. I've chipped one of them with a knife and after thawing I dripped it into the tank. They didn't appeared impressed.. Do they eat it, or is it just going to ruin the water quality, which I suspect isn't stellar at the moment already?

So when they find one that's either molting or molted very recently, they just beat them up? Wat. BTW they have lots of places to hide so I don't understand why she was out in the open like that. Maybe the freshly scraped algae lured her out... But then it means that I can continue brushing the brown algae from my glass with a shrimp tank-only toothbrush and it won't trigger another random shanking session on the citizens, right? They do get some protein sometimes in the form of... well either eating each other, or sometimes a few bugs drown themselves in the water and after a few days I just see something in the water that looks like the shell of some bug. Also, one of my colleagues had a swarm of malaysian trumpet snails so he gave me like 15 of them and I've put them in a separate tank that was only gravel, a few rocks and plants in an about 5L tank that looked like a giant wine glass. The started to die out so I've put them in with the shrimps since there are other snails who look OK, but they just died out anyways, so the shrimps have had a few snails to eat. I guess that counts as protein. My flatmate had an axolotl and he gave him frozen bloodworms. Should I serve it to the red cherries? I'm guessing just in tiny pieces, and waiting for it to thaw to room temperature. Maybe it will sate their bloodlust.

Hi! So I've just witnessed actual cannibalism in my tank. I saw 1 RCS under about 5-6 others who went completely mental. The guy wasn't dead, it wasn't just a mold, and I'm relatively sure I wasn't just misinterpreting their playful wrestling. I've started to fight them off with a chopstick which I use only to manage my shrimp tank, and the victim was limping around, head heavily beaten up. When I stopped guarding him and fending off the others, they've just jumped back at him. Prior to this, I was brushing some brown algae on the glass with a tooth brush, which I also use only in my tank, and it was well rinsed before first use. A few minutes after the brushing, they've started to crowd up around the wall which I was cleaning, and about 15-30 minutes later I saw them ganging up on 1 shrimp. Did I just invent a way to trigger some sort of battle-royal-reflex on my shrimps? Is it possible that the scraped brown algae started to stick on that one shrimp in particularly large quanities and he became pretty much a walking sandwich for the others? It's a 34cm x 24cm x 17cm tank. I've got around 10 adults, 8-10 medium ones and at least 10 S-XS sized ones, though who knows actually how many of them are there... Any ideas? Thanks, Rob