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    Posted: September 14 2015 at 10:06am
For those of you with shrimp, how often do you find they molt? I've got a really big cleaner shrimp and it molts about every other week. Seems like a lot to me, but what do I know?! How often does yours molt?
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I was afraid to ask this but mine does it a ton. It does it at least once every couple of weeks. I read that you should dose Iodine to help it molt, but I don't dose that. I wonder if when I frag corals, if the Iodine does not come all the way off. I run Iodine in my Gryphon to help prevent infection but I always fresh rinse after. I think some Iodine is sneaking in. I say this because he seems to molt an unusual amount. 

Scared the hell out of me the first time. It left its skin sitting on a rock and somehow perfect slipped out of it. Its antennas and feet and everything molted at once. Weird stuff. Nightmare-ish stuf. 
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It will molt to make room for growth, more molting means faster growth.
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BTW, my shrimp is a skunk cleaner shrimp. 
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