Skeleton shrimps, like other crustaceans, molt their armor. Mating can only occur when the female skeleton shrimp is between the new and the hardened exoskeletons.
Skeleton Shrimp Giving Birth
The skeleton shrimp is then breeding the fertilized eggs within her brood pouch (the white belly):
The young will finally hatch and emerge as juvenile adults. They crawl up and down the body of their mother:
