shrimp molt

[sadielynn]

is there such a thing as excessive molting for a peppermint shrimp ?
we have had ours a little over a month and he has molted 2 times already .
should we be worried

 

[incysor]

Nope...Just means he's eating and growing, and doing well.

B

 

[shaggydoo541]

Yeah sounds perfectly normal... mine molted around 2-3 X a month and until it started eating my corals was a great healthy tank inhabitant.

 

[sadielynn]

thanks guys wasent sure if I was killing him or not

 

[mikeguerrero]

Hopefully, you don't have too many aggressive fish, becuase they can and will tanke advantage of a molted shrimp....

Mike

 

[sadielynn]

we just have the one fishy the shrimp has 2 caves maybe more that we dont know about but we dont see him for about a day then later in the night he will show up

 

[dragon79]

Hopefully, you don't have too many aggressive fish, becuase they can and will tanke advantage of a molted shrimp....

Mike

I learned that, my poor anemone shrimp was killed by my red headed goby as it was trying to molt. I need to get another but need to maybe reaquacape to give the shrimp some options when coming to molting.