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When you wake up and go to check up on your week old clean up crew, and find you skunk cleaner shrimp upside down, whiskers blowing limply in an algae infested live rock. I call my husband panicking, wondering what we did wrong, and eager to get him out to prevent a spike in ammonia.

 

I'm fishing him out, and notice the shrimp is transparent...WELL it turns out it's just his freaking molted shell! So I left it in there so it can give nutrients back to the shrimp and whatnot, as gross as it looks.

 

Just thought I'd share this story, because I'm sure I'm not the only one who has experienced this :lol:

 

Idk how I'll ever handle if any of my fish die though...

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When you wake up and go to check up on your week old clean up crew, and find you skunk cleaner shrimp upside down, whiskers blowing limply in an algae infested live rock. I call my husband panicking, wondering what we did wrong, and eager to get him out to prevent a spike in ammonia.

 

I'm fishing him out, and notice the shrimp is transparent...WELL it turns out it's just his freaking molted shell! So I left it in there so it can give nutrients back to the shrimp and whatnot, as gross as it looks.

 

Just thought I'd share this story, because I'm sure I'm not the only one who has experienced this :lol:

 

Idk how I'll ever handle if any of my fish die though...

 

Haha I remember my first molt - and then the day comes it actually dies while molting, then that's very sad :( (Happened to a crab, he died mid-molt which isn't too uncommon actually.) I always left the molt in though, too :)

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Haha I remember my first molt - and then the day comes it actually dies while molting, then that's very sad :( (Happened to a crab, he died mid-molt which isn't too uncommon actually.) I always left the molt in though, too :)

 

It's so deceiving! I've heard that they can die while molting too, so I hope that doesn't happen! Both of my shrimp have molted in the first week of me getting them, and both times I thought they were dead lol.

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