Do you feed if there are old "molts" still on substrate?

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Do you feed if there are old "molts" still on substrate?

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Is there any reason to feed the shrimps if there are "shedded" molts still waiting to be eaten?
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Re: Do you feed if there are old "molts" still on substrate?

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Yea I still feed my shrimps even I there is a molt. It can't hurt, just some extra food.
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Re: Do you feed if there are old "molts" still on substrate?

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I still feed also, if the shrimp don't eat the molts the snails do.
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Re: Do you feed if there are old "molts" still on substrate?

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Neonshrimp wrote:I still feed also, if the shrimp don't eat the molts the snails do.
Yea my ramshorns or Zebra Nerites eat the molts too.
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Re: Do you feed if there are old "molts" still on substrate?

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I wait till the lil' guys finish with their exoskeleton.
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