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Shrimps are scavengers and will eat other dead shrimps (or fish) but I dont think they would have killed another shrimp unless (possibly) it was already dying! Keep at it! The juveniles moult more often as they are growing in size where as adults don't need to moult as often so the affects of your earlier problems are likely to have longer term problems with the older adult shrimps (thicker/harder shells). Hopefully though you have enough younger shrimps to restock given a bit of time?

I thought things were starting to turn around. I did seem to loose a lot of older shrimp, I don't see as many around anymore but there are lots of younger generations coming up. Then today I saw a fresh shrimp molt and what appeared to be a freshly molted shrimp, struggling to get away from everyone else in the corner of the tank. Other shrimp descended on the molt and I don't believe it was a female, but the other shrimps were harassing them. I go away for 5 minutes or so and I come back to see them feasting on a now dead shrimp. I'm not sure what's going on here and I think I had a hunch that freshly molted shrimp were being cannibalized. I started to sense this pattern for a little bit but didn't have any hard evidence. This was the closest that I've seen. I'm not sure if the shrimp died naturally due to poor molting (seemed to be a good intact exoskeleton left behind) or if the other shrimps killed it when it was vulnerable. I think I saw a shrimp trying to pick at it while it was preparing to molt (this was right before I walked away). I've been trying to get the water parameters under control and feed them a little more often. I'm trying to add mulberry leaves on a more regular basis. Along with natural bio film and algae, I believe there should be plenty of food to go around. I don't know what's going on anymore 😔