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Old 01/05/2008, 12:54 PM
Marine89 Marine89 is offline
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question on shrimp is this normal?

hey i have a question pretty new to aquariums ive had my 20 g setup for about two months and recently i added a yellow coral banded shrimp and i already had a cleaner shrimp in there...i woke up this morning and theere exoskeltons where lefthanging on rocks both of them . i thought they died till i saw them in the rocks they dont fight at all i s this normal?
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Old 01/05/2008, 02:51 PM
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Yes this is normal, they shed their skins to grow, it just so happened that they did it at the same time and was coincidence that you had just added the other. Any invert with an exoskeleton will do this.
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Old 01/05/2008, 03:30 PM
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Also, most shed around the cycles of the moon, usually right before or right after the full moon, so it is also normal that they shed together, I have 15 assorted shrimp and twice that many hermit crabs. they all shed within about 3 days of each other.
 

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