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Shrimp molting vs Shrimps not molting, good or bad?

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#1 ·
I was looking at my shrimp tanks after a long hectic day at work, very relaxing lol. Anyhow, I noticed that in one of my tank, the shrimp molts alot. And in the other tank, they don't molt as often or at all (I haven't seen them molt in one tank) Maybe lack of Calcium has to do something with it? All the tanks get fed the same food with rotation of different food. Same temperature.

What is considered to be normal? Too much molting or not enough molting?
 
#5 ·
Im bumping this thread cause im experiencing the same problem, usualy i would see them molt after every month but now nothing.... the shrimp shell also seems really soft compare to the way it was before.

the big difference is before i had hard water with ph up to 7.8 and now its softwater of 6.8. Feeding regiment and everything is pretty much the same.
 
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