Common illnesses, quarantine, and safe treatments.
You raise a Sulawesi colony’s survival by removing the three things that kill it most often: stocking a tank before itās genuinely mature, letting the water move under the shrimp, and letting waste build up in warm alkaline conditions thatā¦
Sulawesi shrimp are demanding, but the ways a colony goes wrong arenāt mysterious. They trace back to a short list of decisions taken before the shrimp ever arrived: an active soil working against the pH, mineral that never fully dissolved,ā¦
If youāre looking at a pale line where the carapace meets the first abdominal segment on a Sulawesi shrimp, the answer depends on two things. How wide is that line, and what is the shrimp doing? A faint, narrow lineā¦
If Sulawesi shrimp are still dying one at a time after youāve corrected everything the water will let you correct, a full reset is worth considering because the suspects that are left donāt live in the water column. They liveā¦
Yes, and itās one of the few things in a Sulawesi tank worth treating as an emergency rather than a setback. Shrimp grow only by casting the old exoskeleton and building a new one [[1]], so a molt that stallsā¦
Losing one or two Sulawesi shrimp a day, day after day, is a different problem from losing most of the colony at once. A steady trickle points at a condition the tank has drifted into, one the shrimp can holdā¦
Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp. from the Malili lakes, such as Caridina dennerli, the Cardinal) are advanced specialists. Most of their health problems trace back to water quality and recent changes rather than a specific disease. This guide groups the plausibleā¦
