Should Sulawesi Shrimp Be Kept Alone?
Your Sulawesi tank is cycled, and the stocking list in your head has more than shrimp on it. Keep Sulawesi shrimp in a tank of their own: the only tankmate we’d add on purpose is a Sulawesi rabbit snail, and…
Shrimp Care
Water parameters, molting, and species guides.
Sulawesi Shrimp Nitrite Poisoning: What to Do First
How much nitrite is too much for Sulawesi shrimp? Any amount your kit can show, so treat a nitrite reading of any size in a Sulawesi tank as an emergency today, not a number to keep an eye on. Nobody…
High TDS in a Sulawesi Shrimp Tank: What the Reading Means
Your TDS pen is reading above the 150-250 ppm band Sulawesi shrimp are kept in, and you want to know how much trouble the tank is in. A high reading means minerals or waste have been added to the water…
Sulawesi Shrimp Ammonia Poisoning: Why a Trace Reading Is Not Safe
Can an ammonia reading your kit can barely show really hurt Sulawesi shrimp? Yes, because the warm alkaline water these shrimp need keeps far more of any ammonia in its toxic un-ionized form, so that faint reading is already a…
Sudden pH Changes and Sulawesi Shrimp: What to Do First
The pH in your Sulawesi tank has shifted, and the shrimp are behaving strangely. What hurts them is the speed of that move more than the number it landed on, because these shrimp come from lakes that barely change from…
Sulawesi Shrimp vs Amano Shrimp: Which One Fits Your Tank
Amano or Sulawesi shrimp, and could one tank take both? Buy Amano if you want algae grazed in the tank you already run, and buy Sulawesi shrimp only if you’ll build them a warm, alkaline, very steady tank of their…
Sulawesi Shrimp Stress: Causes, Signs and Safe Fixes
Your Sulawesi shrimp have stopped grazing, gone pale or started darting around the glass. That’s almost always the tank telling you something about the water, not about a disease, so test before you change anything and then put it right…
Sulawesi Shrimp vs Cherry Shrimp: Which One Should You Keep?
Cherry shrimp or Sulawesi shrimp, if you can only set up one tank? Keep cherry shrimp, unless you already run RO water and can hold a warm, alkaline tank steady all year. Sulawesi shrimp aren’t a harder version of the…
Lake Poso Shrimp Species: The Full List
A shrimp listing says “Lake Poso”, and you’d like to know what else lives in that lake before you buy. Lake Poso in central Sulawesi holds eleven Caridina shrimp species found nowhere else, nine in the lake itself and two…
Lake Towuti Shrimp: The Full List of Caridina Species
Which shrimp actually come from Lake Towuti, and how many of them could end up in your tank? Eleven described Caridina species have been recorded from Lake Towuti, the largest lake in the Malili system of South Sulawesi, but only…
Sulawesi Shrimp vs Crystal Shrimp: Which One Fits Your Tank?
There’s room for one more tank, and both Crystal shrimp and Sulawesi shrimp are on your shortlist. Pick the one whose water your room can hold all year, because Crystal shrimp are kept cool, soft and acidic at 60-72°F (15.5-22°C)…
Sulawesi Shrimp Natural Environment: Water Conditions in the Lakes
What is the water actually like in the lakes your Sulawesi shrimp come from? It’s warm all year, mildly alkaline and very low in dissolved minerals, a pairing most fresh water doesn’t manage, and it’s slow to change. These shrimp…