Sheddings

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Sheddings

Post by samosette »

What do you do will all the sheddings? Do you go in and pick em out or do you just leave em in there? they look like a small crime scene.
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Re: Sheddings

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samosette wrote:What do you do will all the sheddings? Do you go in and pick em out or do you just leave em in there?
My Macrobrachium eat these, so I leave them in the tank. My algae-eating shimp prefer algae :D , so I remove them.
samosette wrote:they look like a small crime scene.
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Post by retardo »

it eventually disappears. either the shrimp or the snails will eat it. i leave it in.
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Post by beckypyyeung »

Hahahaha ! It looks like a small crime scene. What a creative description :lol:

I leave them there. They eat shells.
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Post by kross »

i only remove my woodshrimp's and leave my cherries'... :-D
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Post by Ljung »

i only remove them when they looked new and i feel like getting my fingers wet... :-D
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Post by cz »

I usually remove them. My shrimp don't eat them, but if I wait long enough they disintegrate (eaten by bacteria?)
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Post by Mustafa »

I would recommend leaving the shed skin inside. ALL shrimp will eat the old skin eventually (except for filter shrimp). It's good for them. :) I never take any shed skin out...actually I never get the chance since the shrimp devour them almost immediately.

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