Shrimp dead or molting?!?!

I bought this shrimp just a few days ago accidentally and she was pregnant. She was fine this morning, but I come home to school and dont see her out like usual. I poked around and looked under a moss ball and found what appeared to be her decapitated? I cant even find the rest of her body or her eggs. Im horrified, i dont know what might have done this. I have another small ghost shrimp in the tank too and hes been fine for weeks. The only things in the tank that pose a threat is my female betta who has never attacked her or my other shrimp. There is also my assassin snails, but i think they would be too small to decapitate her. I dont see any eyes on the corpse and it is too whitish to see if it is hollow. I can see her whiskers too, or where they used to be at least. I will leave this head in the tank for my snails or if she is still alive and wants to eat it. Im praying the lives of her shrimplets were not jeapordized because they looked so healthy.

Looks like a molt...she'll be in there somewhere

CaptainBarnicles said:

Looks like a molt...she'll be in there somewhere

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Do you think her molting would have killed her eggs?

Shouldn't do...take it out and have a look at it

Looks like a molt, but kind of hard to tell. The molt will look exactly like the shrimp, except clear and hollow.

Finn1231 said:

Do you think her molting would have killed her eggs?

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They usually shed the eggs and then molt.

What species is the shrimp? If it's an amano or one of a couple of other species, the eggs hatch to larvae which need to be in salt water to survive. But with the majority of species the eggs hatch to miniature adults, which are very tiny and hard to see. Be careful doing water changes as it is very easy to suck up baby shrimp. I always check the bucket of old water carefully with my shrimp tank. Yesterday there 11 baby cherry shrimps in the bucket.