Shrimp Molts

[PsiPro]

What do shrimp molts look like? Arn't they just clear? I just picked up a body thats red. This isn't a molt correct?

 

[Toirtis]

If it is really light and empty-ish, then it is a moult...by your description of 'body', I am guessing what you found was no moult.

 

[PsiPro]

0 Nitrite
7.4-7.5 pH
0 Ammonia
Almost 0 Nitrate.

His tankmates are in my sig. What coulda killed him? I'm franticly looking for his brothers and sisters but dont see any yet.

 

[krap101]

i dont think anything in there would eat it. moults are usually a translucentish white

 

[PsiPro]

OK So I feel stupid. I just turned around to look at the tank and two of them flutter accrosee the pannel :/

Others are alive, and I wanna keep them that way. This body was found right up agasint the galss, not where they normally hangout, is possible the other fish moved it there.

 

[PsiPro]

Yea I have seen molts the fish think they are great fun.

The Danios used to play with the live ones till I got more danios, I have rarly seen them peck at the shrimp now, and its never a real chase, shrimp just hides.

 

[TankGirl]

Cherry shrimp are very small and your cory cats could easily eat them, as could the danios, for that matter, depending on how old they are. I would definitely make sure they have plenty of cover.

 

[PsiPro]

They do have plenty of cover and these are older, but not ancient. The body was intact as far as I could tell. I'm going to set up a shrimp only aquarium eventually.

 

[TankGirl]

Sometimes there are just failed molts, or maybe something got to it while it was soft.

 

[PsiPro]

Ya thanks. I really like them dont want em to die