Fire/Blood shrimp concern?

[Darth.Daddy12]

Added a new Fire/Blood how ever many other names shrimp to my new nano about 2 weeks ago. Maybe 2-1/2ish at most. He’s almost fully grown at 3” plus. After first few days in tank he molted which of course made me happy as he was clearly happy with his new home. That said I get home from work today and he’s molted yet again. This makes 2 times in about as many weeks. This is excessive to me. I do feed the tank a full cube daily as the filtration handles it nicely. Tank is sitting at
8.12 PH (swings maybe 0.1 at most)
437cal
10.8 dkh
Temp 79 (and swings 1*)
Salinity runs stable and constant at .026 with daily manual top offs of about 12oz rodi.
Under 5 nitrates as I can barely register color on API (my preferred nitrate test due to simplicity)
Don’t have a ULM checker but best I can tell I have phosphates but barely readable with API and Red Sea test kits.. still waiting on my Hanna to arrive it’s clearly not zero under 0.1

(The last two hence why I’m feeding so heavy lol. )

Should I be concerned and checking for something or am I just feeding so much that even at his size he’s still able to grow that fast? I’m used to 3-4 weeks per molt for a healthy happy growing shrimp. I know shrimp are good indicators of possible issues before being able to notice them so is he trying to tell me something I’m missing or is he just a fat happy pig enjoying life?

 

[rkpetersen]

Shouldn't be a problem as long as the molts are successful.
Do you supplement anything? The major issue would be iodine.
Traditional wisdom is that iodine is helpful for molting.
Others believe it just acts as an irritant, causing the shrimp to molt prematurely.

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

Shouldn't be a problem as long as the molts are successful.
Do you supplement anything? The major issue would be iodine.
Traditional wisdom is that iodine is helpful for molting.
Others believe it just acts as an irritant, causing the shrimp to molt prematurely.

Being a nano I dose a little of Kent nano 2 part and that’s it. It has some trace elements to include iodine but I’m sure not much. I manually dose it a tiny bit each day just to keep ph, alk and cal where I want as I don’t even mix salt for this tank. It’s 10g so I actually just buy imaginarium premix 5g and leave it by the tank as water changes are 32oz weekly and I find this much easier and faster to do this way. So I dose to bring up the lower levels to more wanted amounts for a reef system. Really dont need more then a couple drops a day at this point to maintain. I’ve got 6 (used to be 7 tanks but broke one down last weekend and combined it with another one) in my house and no fish room they are speed out everywhere like decorations lol. So I try and keep it as simple as possible for each setup. So far this is what works for this tank. Might change later as it has higher demands from more corals but it’s still just a 10g that will be going into my 2yo room once I have a good grasp of what it needs to keep healthy and don’t have to babysit it.