Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping => Invertebrates - Shrimps and Snails => Topic started by: Fiona on February 14, 2016, 10:43:38 PM
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Well it was like something out of an alien movie!!!
I was feeding the fish and noticed a glass shrimp acting weirdly. I thought it was sick, it was waggling its front claws but they looked paralysed and it kept backing up along the java fern leaf, I thought it was going to fall off the end. The next minute it arched its back and suddenly stretched up. It was the weirdest damned thing I've seen in a while. It looked like it had doubled in size! Suddenly the skin split, it twitched, flicked the skin off and dived into the densest part of the plant.
AMAZING!!! How I wish I'd been able to film it.
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Fascinating! How often do they molt?
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From the amount of cherry shrimp skins in the shrimpery I'd say 7-14 day intervals. The glass shrimp are in the 200l though, there were 10 in there initially, not sure how any may be in there now though.