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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.

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 , so I remove them.

samosette wrote:they look like a small crime scene.

it eventually disappears. either the shrimp or the snails will eat it. i leave it in.

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

I leave them there. They eat shells.

i only remove my woodshrimp's and leave my cherries'...

i only remove them when they looked new and i feel like getting my fingers wet...

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

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.

Mustafa