Pistol Shrimp

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.

Kosamamama

Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Joined
Jan 3, 2012
Messages
21
I have a pretty young tank with a black clown, a watchman goby, and pistol shrimp. (along with stars, snails and crabs)

Tonight I noticed that my pistol shrimp molted already! Do I need to remove the shell? Or will the crab take care of it? Also, how often do they molt?
 
I just leave the molts in my tank. It will depend on a lot of things when and how often they molt if they grow fast they will molt faster, amount of iodine will causes changes in molting and so will stress.
 
I leave my molts in my crabs and shrimp molt pretty regularly prob every couple of weeks they disappear.
Ive heard that they eat them for extra calcium for their soft new shell.
 
Back
Top Bottom