I am the founder of Shrimp Aquatics and a freshwater aquarist with 4 years of hands-on experience keeping and breeding ornamental shrimp, fish, and invertebrates. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the world's leading hubs for aquatic livestock, I test every care guide in my own fish room before publishing.
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Sulawesi shrimp are supposed to sit on the rock and graze. When they leave it and start swimming laps, one of two things is happening. Either the adult males are responding to a female, or something is wrong with the…
If your Sulawesi shrimp have gone pale, the cause is almost always something in the tank rather than something in the shrimp. Light, background, a recent molt and above all the water move color around in these animals, and the…
Sulawesi shrimp are rock grazers that stay close to cover, so some hiding is simply how the group behaves. The question worth answering isn’t whether they hide, but whether they still come out. Shrimp that graze in the open at…
When Sulawesi shrimp die in the days after you add them, the cause is almost never something you can treat. It’s nearly always the water they moved into, or a tank that had finished cycling but hadn’t finished maturing. That…
If your Sulawesi shrimp started dying in the hours or days after a water change, the change itself is the most likely cause, and it’s almost always the difference between the new water and the tank water, or something the…
Care guides for Sulawesi shrimp mostly say two to three hours, but the real answer depends on how far apart the two waters are. No published study gives a measured acclimation time for this group. So the honest answer is…
Most of the work in acclimating Sulawesi shrimp happens before the box reaches your door. If the tank is already warm, alkaline, cycled and grazed over, arrival day is short: bring the sealed bag to the same temperature as the…
A Sulawesi clutch that never hatches lands in one of three patterns: eggs that were never fertilized, dropped eggs, or embryos that stopped part way. By the time you’re looking at the problem, that clutch has already been decided, and…
If the adults in your Sulawesi tank look normal and the shrimplets keep vanishing, the cause is rarely a disease you can treat. Newly released Sulawesi shrimp (lake Caridina spp.) die from problems that only reach an animal that small.…
Raising Sulawesi shrimplets is mostly work you finish before they exist. What decides whether a brood comes through? How mature the grazing surfaces are when it hatches, how steady the warm alkaline water stays afterwards, and how little you change…
If food is still sitting on the rock an hour after you dropped it in, you’re feeding a Sulawesi tank more than it can use. Leftovers matter more here than in a Neocaridina or Bee tank. The warm, alkaline water…
You raise a Sulawesi colony’s survival by removing the three things that kill it most often: stocking a tank before it’s genuinely mature, letting the water move under the shrimp, and letting waste build up in warm alkaline conditions that…
