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Topic: Shrimp

Posted By: Hogie
Subject: Shrimp
Date Posted: September 14 2015 at 10:06am

For those of you with shrimp, how often do you find they molt? I've got a really big cleaner shrimp and it molts about every other week. Seems like a lot to me, but what do I know?! How often does yours molt?

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Posted By: Marcoss
Date Posted: September 14 2015 at 10:17am

I was afraid to ask this but mine does it a ton. It does it at least once every couple of weeks. I read that you should dose Iodine to help it molt, but I don't dose that. I wonder if when I frag corals, if the Iodine does not come all the way off. I run Iodine in my Gryphon to help prevent infection but I always fresh rinse after. I think some Iodine is sneaking in. I say this because he seems to molt an unusual amount.

Scared the hell out of me the first time. It left its skin sitting on a rock and somehow perfect slipped out of it. Its antennas and feet and everything molted at once. Weird stuff. Nightmare-ish stuf.

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Posted By: CHAOS
Date Posted: September 14 2015 at 10:33am

It will molt to make room for growth, more molting means faster growth.

Posted By: Marcoss
Date Posted: September 14 2015 at 10:47am

BTW, my shrimp is a skunk cleaner shrimp.

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