Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => General Fishkeeping advice => Topic started by: dbaggie on June 03, 2014, 06:28:30 PM
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After a couple of false starts keeping Shrimp (I believe I added them to the community tank whilst they were too small - sorry chaps :'( ) I now have at least 1 good sized shrimp which appears to be doing well and I am hopeful of adding some more soon.
My shrimp has just moulted for a second time so I'm just wondering what to do with the discarded shell? I took the first one out but I've read that it can be useful to leave them in the tank to degrade as it'll release calcium back into the tank? Is this worthwhile or should I treat it as waste??
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i have been tending to leave mine in for a bout 48 hours generally they and some of the fish have had a nibble on it but not managed to get threw it all then after about 48 hours i tend to remove what is left.
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I shall go with that approach ta (assuming there's any left after 48 hours - I only spotted it this morning and quite a bit had gone by this evening!).
All your shrimp still present and accounted for Chris - no further trips abroad??
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i counted 6 last night but the plants have really filled out so isnt easy to spot them ( i did check the filter thow ::) )