cleaner shrimp

[jmestayer1]

My cleaner shrimp just molted his shell for the first time!!!!!! Should I leave the shell in there to decompose of should I take it out????

 

[reef diver]

Take it out, the motto is if its gonna decompose, take it out.

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by Reef Diver
Take it out, the motto is if its gonna decompose, take it out.
My urchin loves to eat the shrimp molt

. But yes you should take it out.

 

[fishy head]

I have heard that some kind of crabs will pick at it,,,,but i would take it out of your tank.

 

[reef diver]

Im not so sure I want an urchin cause they munch on coralline. But I dunno.

 

[choog]

i was under the impression that when animals such as shrimp molt there shells that they are in a very delicate stage of there life and that they eat their old shell to replace the proteins (or calcium i cant remember which) that they lose during this process.

 

[nel621]

My cleaner shrimp would eat his shell.One day the tank looks like it has 2 shrimp ,the next thing you know just one!

 

[fbm]

Mine set there molts up as decoys it appears. Once I see a molt I know that I will not see my shrimp at least for a half day to a couple of days. I don't know where they go but they do come back. I just leave my molts in the tank for the tank to take care off. I can't see how that would be a very big bio load anyways.