blood shrimp got beat up!

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dragon79

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My girlfriend has 2 blood/fire shrimps. (very small) I guess while one was shedding, it got attached by inhabitants and even it's fellow buddy was picking at him and chasing him around. When I looked at him, he was already missing a lot of his legs.

I had to setup an emergency pico. (the redsea .75 pico) I put him in there, injured and all. One eye, and like 3 legs on him. He's been in this emergency pico for a week. He still looks the same, he hasn't died and is still rightside up. The poor dude just has a hard time gettin' around.

I'm throwing in baby brine I'm hatching for him to eat.

My question is, will he regrow his lost limbs? Or with what he has already lost, will he not be able to shed properly?
 
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mikeguerrero

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Shrimps require the proper levels of iodine in salt water to properly molt. Once they molt they will regrow lost limbs; legs and claws, while much smaller in size they will grow larger and larger with each successful molt.

I would make sure you are feeding him flakes and make sure you watch over his water making sure it stays clean.

Maybe one drop of iodine per week no more since it's such a small tank; read the iodine intructions.

Too much iodine will kill him.

MG
 
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sadielynn

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Hope your little dude does ok . Not to sure that he will regrow his eye tho As mike said they can regrow appendages upon molting :mrgreen:
 
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Jennie

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According to the directions on the Kent Iodine bottle I have:

Add one teaspoon (1 capful or 5 ml) per 50 gallons tank capacity every week or 8 drops per 50 gallons each day. Daily dosing is the preferred method.

If you were to dose iodine, which Im sure would help him, sure you don't want to just get the dropper wet?
 
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dragon79

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The only thing I have is Iodide, which is safer to use than Iodine. I'm using that, he's alive.

For food I drop a shrimp pellet but flakes he can't really catch. Just lays there. We'll see what happens...

Any idea on how long it takes to re-grow those limbs?
 
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sadielynn

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usually you should see progress with the first couple molts :mrgreen:
you may want to try cyclop-eeze to help him get nutrients
 
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mikeguerrero

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When he does his first molt, you will see his first set of legs come in, much smaller than the others.

But with each molt they get bigger, until they are the same size as the others.

I'm going to say 3 to 4 molts before he's like before...
 
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EDGRAY

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wow is incredible how invertebrates can recover their parts that easy... humans should be able to do that too :lol: .... and also use iodine just like jennie but 1 drop everyweek... and my shrimps molt every 2 weeks really cool....
 
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dragon79

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I have to report, he just croaked. He gave up the fight to live on.
I went to watch a movie and when i came back, he was dead. Water started to cloud too, I took him out and flushed him... :( Oh well I tried to give him the chance to molt.
 
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skipm

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Thats too bad, I was looking forward to a full recovery. Sorry about your loss. It sounds like you did all you could.
 
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dragon79

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Yeah, it's real weird, especially in Sandra's tank. This is what has been happening...

Everything all good and dandy, the two pom-poms paired up and had babies. (saw the red sac an everything)

Later though I see after giving birth, a week later, the female croaks. Then Sandra's emerald crab, looked like it molted or tried to, and it died. (at least I think so because I haven't seen him)

Sandra's only living healthy blood shrimp, disapeared. All I see is his molted skin. This is all recent too....Nothing at all has been added to the tank....

I am not sure what's the cause...other than perhaps a lack of perhaps Iodine/Iodide. Her fish of course are all fine.

I'll be testing water parameters just in case to see if there has been a change in water quality.
 
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