I think I figured why shrimp die when/after they molt

the eggs and shrimp thing is kinda iffy, ive heard it both ways, that they are oppurtunistic and that they only clean fungus off, my shrimp definateley love nutrama ova though although that bareley applies

and this is a forum, if everybody just agreed with everyone else there would be chaos
 
Well I can definately disagree with the "shrimp eating eggs" part. I have housed CRS, Yellows and currently Tigers with my breeding Otos. The only eggs that are ever touched are the non-viable ones. No harm to the fry either.
 
I feed the blue pearls Ken's spirulina sticks with a little bit of Ken's algae sticks with calcium about 5 times a week. Probably a 3 to 1 ratio between the spirulina sticks and algae sticks with calsium. Haven't really noticed your phenomenon.

Speaking of the blue pearls, how are they doing?
 
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