Today I experienced something very nerve wracking. So I remembered I had some shrimp pellets laying around. So I decide to treat a few to my yellows after dropping the pellets in the fish went crazy and started playing tug o' war (kind of). After the battle is done my most colorful male has won the battle and I notice he is breathing very heavily and swimming frantically. Soon I realize he has swallowed the pellet WHOLE. This freaked me out and I noticed he had it stuffed in his mouth! I also remembered that these fish are mouth brooders and *hopefully* have large mouths. He then spits it out and I am relieved but then I notice that about three of them have the pellets stuffed in their mouths! Thank god nothing went wrong and they all eventually spit it out and broke it down.
A word of advice saturate you pellets in water before putting them into the tank!
A word of advice saturate you pellets in water before putting them into the tank!