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Moulting trouble?


Matuva

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One of my red cherry female is showing a yellow stripe in the exoskeleton between the head and the tail. It looks like the shell has split in 2, but doesn't want to separate more.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures from my phone. Time to buy a true camera...

Does it means she will meet moulting troubles? I hope no. I have already lost the only red fire I had because she didn't succeed comppleting the molt.

This one is like that till several days now, though she seems healthy, wandering, grazing and eating normally. She even seems more active than the others...

 

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Oh OK, this is normal so. Thanks for that. I'm a bit nervous as I have a very small colony, and no shrimplets yet ...

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I don't see her any longer, but I can see a clean moult laying down the substrat. And I also see my male running all around the tank seeking.

 

So, I bet that soon I will have another berried female  :happy:   

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