A small freak out by my daughter...

This morning my daughter (9 years old) starts hollaring at me while I'm taking my shower that my blood shimp has died..

I quickly finish my shower and get presentable enough to go downstairs and see what she is talking about.

Very quickly I realise and reassure her that the blood shrimp has only shed and not passed away since he was moving around quite fine a few inches from the shed skin she thought was a corpse.

So she's calmed down and off to school etc the shed has been removed and all is right in the world.

Just thought I'd share as I'm sure I'm not the only one to have had similar happen.

 

Man I cannot tell you how scarred I was that I was losing all of my shrimp and hermit crabs the first few times I saw their molts!!!!

That is the sign of some healthy inhabitants!!!!

Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!!!

 

lol ....i have to admit first time i seen a molt i thought the shrimp had died also.

 

tell her I thought the same thing when I first saw my cleaner shrimp molt. I noticed the shell stuck in my condy. That condy was so close to taking a trip to the freezer, but it was early in the morning and I had to go to work. I remember thinking, "Have fun condy this is your last day on Earth." Then I got home and found my shrimp happily under his rock, which saved the condy's life.

 

I was pretty bummed for a few days when I was first getting started in the hobby after I saw my coral banded shrimp molt lol I thought he was a goner...

I hope I never see my mantis shrimp's molt. Even though I'm well aware of the process, I know I will still initially freak out!

 

Same thing happened to me. I got rid of my trigger because I blamed him of the molt hehe. Lesson learned.

 

I used to have f/w crabs and one day my husband FREAKED because he had thought she died. I had to explain to him that Ms. crab had to molt her skin because she was getting too fat to fit in her other one. I then showed him her and all was ok. He was pretty astonished by it too.

 

i just recently saw my pistol molt and I thought he died! I had seen him molt frequently but this time it was different. I saw a crab eating the pincher part of the shrimp and thought I saw more then a shell. Luckily I heard his snapping later on.

I leave my molts in there, because they will eat it and get back some iodine and other stuff they need (especially important with bigger mantis!)

 

Good to know for future ..

Thanks all, glad to see not the only one..

 

I saw my sally light foot's molt and was worried. Even though I thought it was a molt I didn't see it again for a couple days. Probably was just making sure it was fine to come back out. Freaked me out for a while.