Can it regenerate?

[R33f_$hark]

Ok, so I notice today that my blood red shrimp is missing his back left leg? He has a small "nub" that looks like a minature leg. Will his leg grow back? Is the "nub" the start of the leg growing? Thanks in advance.

 

[Anonymous]

In my experience, yeah, they grow their appendages back pretty quickly.

 

[DOGMAI]

It is actually quite amazing to see these animals grow their legs back. You dont really see it happen. I have a coral banded shrimp and he has lost one of his main big arms more than once. The last time this happend he ate it. weird! Anyway he walked around without it for like two weeks and then one day he had a new one. You never saw him grow it, it just kinda came from nowhere? Neat and crazy when you see it happen. Or dont see it happen?? :?

 

[danmhippo]

Actually, they do not "grow back", but rather, the new regeneration grows under the old shell, and when they molt, the damaged shell leaves, and the new regeneration appears.

 

[camp6]

Actually, they do not "grow back", but rather, the new regeneration grows under the old shell, and when they molt, the damaged shell leaves, and the new regeneration appears.

I had an arrow crab i noticed this happen with. one day he had a nub, next day I saw an empty shell in the sand and he was standing there proudly with all legs in tact.

 

[R33f_$hark]

Now I heard something about there being a sufficent amount of the trace element (sounds like an oxymoron) iodine in the water for molting to occur. Is this so, or does the iodine just happen to help the process along? If the latter, will the molting occur just after he eats enough?