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Luckedout 
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 10:45am |
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My new peppermint shrimp just molted. I was shocked! at first I thought his molt was some aptasia cuz he stuck it under a rock toward the front of the tank. Anyways, I've only had him for about a week. How often can I expect him to molt?
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 12:01pm |
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I have a fire shrimp that molts about every 2 weeks, I'm not sure if that is good or not but I think he is dead every time I see it.
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 1:09pm |
About every 14 days.... it's a good sign.
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 1:27pm |
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what should I do with the molt? Take it out? Does anything eat it that would be beneficial to leave it on for?
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 2:44pm |
Lots of organisms will eat it. It's made partly of Calcium so it's a good thing to leave in.
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 3:07pm |
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Ok. I'll leave it in. I'd like this aquarium to have a good eco system that requires little tweaking. So leaving in a little shrimp molt doesn't bother me as long as it's doing some good.
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 3:31pm |
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Eh I always took it out. . .
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 5:43pm |
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Eh I always took it out. . . |
That's what my wife said. I was waaay excited and all she said was, 'ewww' 
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 5:52pm |
As Adam said, molting is a good sign of a healthy shrimp. I've got 2 peppermint shrimp and 2 cleaners and I get a molt floating around every few weeks (that I see). I just leave it in, it will disappear in a day or two.
Micah
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 9:19pm |
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I always leave the molts in as well. They usually are gone in a day. I figure that it gives my hermits something to munch on.
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Posted: November 20 2009 at 8:38am |
I always pull them out... don't really know why.
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Posted: November 20 2009 at 11:51am |
Right
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Posted: December 02 2009 at 3:29pm |
I have one cleaner, 2 firecrackers, and 3-4 peppermints. It's always floating around, but I'm glad to know that I should leave it. My arrow crab tends to much on it. He's the biggest pig ever. I don't know where he puts it all.
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