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Almost none, and the honest answer is a category rather than a list. It’s a very small, surface feeding nano fish, added last to an established tank. The keeper has to accept that shrimplets are part of the price. Every…
Yes. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania spp.) are one of the few tankmates whose water requirements genuinely match Sulawesi shrimp, because the two animals come out of the same lakes. Chemistry isn’t what decides the outcome here. Load is. A full grown…
Yes, Sulawesi shrimp and Neocaridina can live in the same tank, but only on Sulawesi terms. The water is set for the Sulawesi shrimp, and the Neocaridina are a small group you manage rather than a second breeding colony. The…
Sulawesi shrimp are kept at 79-86°F (26-30°C), and nothing in the published record singles out one point inside that band as better than the rest. These are advanced animals, and temperature is one of the few parts of their care…
No. Sulawesi shrimp aren’t extinct in the wild, and no species in the genus Caridina currently sits in the Extinct or the Extinct in the Wild category of the IUCN Red List. The idea comes from one species. The Sulawesi…
Yes, they can. Sulawesi shrimp are separate species, and that doesn’t stop them mating once they share a tank. The conservation group Sulawesi Keepers has published breeder accounts and photographs of crossings between Sulawesi lake species.[[1]] They include a hybrid…
You’ll almost never catch Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp.) in the act. What you get instead is a short chain of indirect signs: a freshly cast shell on the substrate, a sudden burst of searching by one or two males, sometimes…
Sulawesi White Sock shrimp, also sold as the Cardinal shrimp (Caridina dennerli), are wanted for three reasons. The deep red body with bright white front legs is what the species looks like in the wild, so nobody had to breed…
Every Sulawesi shrimp in the table below carries a current IUCN Red List assessment, and every one of them sits in a threatened category. Five are Critically Endangered, two are Vulnerable, and one of the five also carries the Possibly…
Sulawesi shrimp aren’t one animal with color variants. The name covers freshwater Caridina that evolved inside two ancient lake systems on a single Indonesian island, and the most recent island-wide survey records 62 atyid shrimp species on Sulawesi, 43 of…
Blue Leg Poso has the best documented case, and among the lines that are easy to buy, the Cardinal group is the one singled out as less demanding. No published trial ranks Sulawesi shrimp species by how hard they are…
About two dozen, if you mean the lake species the hobby calls Sulawesi shrimp, out of 62 atyid shrimp species on the whole island. The exact number depends on what you count. The most recent island-wide survey of Sulawesi’s atyid…
