Shrimp Shed Its Skin,,, What Now?

[shelaghfishface]

maybe a stupid question, but i felt like a twit when i realised it wasnt a dead shrimp.. does this mean they are not getting enough food?? i feed them on hikari shrimp cuisne once a day.. maybe thats not right?

i do water changes on the tank every morning just about 20% replacing with declorinated water

they have a (( actually the tank is in my sig ))

maybe this is not a bad thing??
any advice would be great

shelagh xxx

 

[saltynay]

Molting there exoskeleton is there only way to grow . If you are feeding them shrimp pellets that all get eaten within 1 hour then you could give them an extra couple. I feed my shrimp every 2 days with a random quanitity of shrimp pellets, fish get fed every day and a treat every 3 days so the shrimp scavenge the rememnents of the fishes food.

 

[shelaghfishface]

cheers saltynay, i guess i can stop worrying now then will they snack on any specific type of vegatables? theres snails in there 2 so something that they could all munch on?

shelagh xxx

 

[saltynay]

Forgot to say on the exoskeleton front you can leave it in there as they should consume it if they need minerals i.e. calcium. Although having said that if they don't eat within 24hours you can take it out if you find them an eyesore personally I just leave them indefinately.

Virtually any fruit/vegetable will do fishes eat just about anything and shrimp are the same. So trial and error mine used to love the centre of cucmbers but lately haven't been eating that. Obviously use common sense feeding them chillis probably wouldn't be the best idea.... Depending on the type of snail they will probably eat any sort of vegetable matter aswell.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

They go nuts for broccoli.