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Cookster Shrimp Keeper

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Does anyone else have some good pictures of clean moults ... Just for something different :tears_of_joy:

I found it fascinating that they can peel themselves out of their shell in one piece like that...

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Squiggle Shrimp Guru

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Very cool shots dude, I get them as well just never thought to take a pic of it, well done :victorious:

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Cookster Shrimp Keeper

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Haha .. Thanks ... The 3rd photo of the Glassy makes me think he looks like he's seen a ghost .. lol

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The first few times I saw the whole moult I thought it was a dead shrimp

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The first few times I saw the whole moult I thought it was a dead shrimp

So did I Ineke, I was temporarily devastated :dejection: ... lol until I picked it out with my long planting tweezers... and Devo turned to How cool :D

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What amazes me is even the long thin antennae has a shell...Nice pics

It's pretty cool I think, legs,swimmers ... the whole lot!! :applause:

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LOL Al4n .... that is poor taste, totally disrespectful of our shrimpy friends... BUT :encouragement:VERY FUNNY !!

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LOL Al4n .... that is poor taste' date=' totally disrespectful of our shrimpy friends... BUT :encouragement:VERY FUNNY !!

Sorry mate, had to be done! LOL. At least you got the humor side of it..

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Sorry mate' date=' had to be done! LOL. At least you got the humor side of it..[/quote']

I did laugh out loud literally when I saw it... Just wanted to be the first to pay you out for it... haha ;)

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So did I Ineke' date=' I was temporarily devastated :dejection: ... lol until I picked it out with my long planting tweezers... and Devo turned to How cool :D[/quote']

I think everyone has had the same heart failure the first time they've seen a moulted shell but you should leave it in there as they eat it to get their calcium levels up :encouragement:

Also, nice one al4n, very wrong on this forum but funny, that's one way to help a shrimp moult :victorious:

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Yeah thanks Squiggle ... I was informed rather promptly about leaving it in there when I spoke of this first experience of seeing a moult with the fella I got the shrimp from.

Is there anything else I could/should provide for the shrimp to keep them healthy... besides food and clean water of course.

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I believe the best thing for them is a variation in diet, switch it up so they don't get the same thing every meal :encouragement:

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Great pictures! :encouragement:

Yesterday I saw one of my shrimp moulting, but only the very last moment when it actually broke free from the old skin. I would have liked to see the whole process. They are very interesting little ceatures.

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Now that's something I'd love to see too. I'm always seeing the tell tail white line across their back where the shell is starting to split but I'm always on my way to work so I miss it, would be very interesting to watch the whole process :encouragement:

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I have seen them molt, it's pretty cool. It looks almost if they are doing a backflip and jumping out of the shell.

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I have seen a cool video of it on youtube somewhere......hang on!

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Wow, That's spectacular! It was fast too, I was imagining some thing like when a snake sheds its skin, it takes forever but is the most amazing thing to watch, watched my snake do it a few times & it never gets boring :encouragement:

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yeah had shrimp for over a yr and the other day i watched one of my golds moult.. at first it caught my attention when i thought i had seen a struggling shrimp and immediately freaked (im sure u guys know exactly how i felt)... a few seconds later i realised what was happening and went to grab the camera.. got i set to take a vid then 'pop' out she jumped n it was all over!! :) went from freaking to cheering in like seconds! didnt think of makin pic of shell..maybe next time :P

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