The actual shedding takes place by a swelling process in which blood is driven into particular parts of the body, water is sucked in from the stomach, and the extra air is taken in. This causes the old hard skin to split usually along the mid dorsal line, and the animal comes out. They're helpless after they shed their hard outer shell. The fairy shrimp finds a safe place to shed their shell, so they won't get gobbled up. The sections between sheddings are called the intermolts.
Crustaceans have wonderful power to regrow lost parts.
The shrimp be longs to the branchiopods. Most of the branchiopods good fresh water. The fairy shrimp live in spring pools that last for a short time.