What lives on fire shrimp exoskeleton?

[SelkieSam]

My Fire Shrimp had a normal molt and for fun I looked at the old exoskeleton under my microscope. Is there a way to find out what sort of things live on a shrimp normally? Or if some of these little guys just live in the saltwater in general? Interested if anyone has good resources or knowledge of the microscopic critter world that is going on here.

 

[SelkieSam]

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[SelkieSam]

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The video shows it a little better, if interested.

 

[SelkieSam]

Are these parasites I need to be worried about? There are a lot of these microscopic worms/planarian looking things

with eyes

 

[SelkieSam]

Anybody have thoughts on this?

 

[javisaman]

Cool but a little unclear pictures. I"m guessing since it was a molt a lot of the decomposing microbes have started to work on it. Also, the video doesn't work anymore.

 

[jabberwock]

I think the microscope may increase unwarranted concern. There is a lot of crazy stuff going on in a reef tank.