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Molting
When shrimp molt, do you leave the skeleton in the tank or take it out? Will it decomposed or will other things eat it?
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The answer depends upon who you ask. Many people leave it, others remove it. I have never seen any adverse effects from leaving it in the tank.
Griss
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I've never bothered to remove the molts, they just seem to disappear on their own somehow.
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I only remove them if they're right out in the open and easy to grab. It seems that my cleaner shrimp try to hide them or something - they're usually stuffed into crevices in the rock. Most of the time, I leave 'em in.
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funny you should mention it, my cleaner shrimp molted again last night (he molts like every 2 weeks, strange..) anyway I was eating lunch and looked over to my tang simming around with the skeleton in his mouth shaking the crap out of it
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