choking on a shrimp?

[treehuggingfishlover]

Spyke got some good sized ghost shrimp to feed my paratilapias.  About 15 minutes after I put a few in the tank I was thinking maybe these shrimp are a little too big for my juvenile fish, when I noticed one of my paratilapias is swimming around with shrimp feet and antennae sticking out of his mouth!!  Do I need to do something (like catch him and try to, I don't know, do CPR- lol)  

Is this normal?

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[Kiovo]

Re: choking on a shrimp?

sometimes when I feed my flowerhorns feeder fish they keep 2 or 3 of them in their mouths, and each time they open their mouths I can still see the feeder fish in there looking out, still alive  8O

i think if the fish isn't in distress, I wouldn't worry about it,  they just might like playing with their food!

[treehuggingfishlover]

Re: choking on a shrimp?

LOL- thanks for responding :)

He looks fine now, no antennae.  But his belly is huge!

I was worried only because the shrimp look as big as he does, and I figured they'd pick at the shrimp, not swollow them whole!!  

Oh, the trials and tribulations of our hobby....  sigh.

[spyke1969]

Re: choking on a shrimp?

Whats my name? I leave for 2 days & you start chokeing the fish!! glad everything turned out ok. see you soon!

[Delock]

Re: choking on a shrimp?

ROFLMAO at you two!

[treehuggingfishlover]

Re: choking on a shrimp?

Okay, so now I'm beginning to think they're just saddists.  

Now one of the paratilapias ate a shrimp so big that now his mouth is wide open, with tentacles sticking out of his mouth, and he's just sitting there like "Oh sh@t, maybe I shouldn't have eaten a shrimp as big as me".

I mean REALLY, is it so necessary?

[spyke1969]

Re: choking on a shrimp?

no more shrimp for you.