Water parameters, molting, and species guides.
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 change…
How long should you really acclimate Sulawesi shrimp, when most care guides say two to three hours? No published study gives a measured acclimation time for this group, and the clock only governs one part of the process: bringing the…
Your Sulawesi shrimp are on their way, and the tank they’re heading for has to be ready before they are. Acclimating Sulawesi shrimp is mostly done before the box arrives: in a tank that’s already warm, alkaline, cycled and grazed…
Why didn’t your Sulawesi shrimp’s eggs hatch? A Sulawesi clutch that never hatches lands in one of three patterns: eggs that were never fertilized, eggs she dropped, or embryos that stopped part way. By the time you’re looking at the…
The adults in your Sulawesi tank look fine, yet the shrimplets keep vanishing. Baby Sulawesi shrimp (lake Caridina spp.) usually die from problems that only reach an animal that small, not from a disease you can treat. The usual four…
What does it take to raise Sulawesi shrimplets? Mostly work you’ve finished before they exist: grazing surfaces that are already mature when the brood hatches, warm alkaline water that stays steady afterwards, and as little change as possible once the…
Food is still sitting on the rock an hour after you dropped it in. That means you’re feeding your Sulawesi tank more than it can use, and leftovers matter more here than in a Neocaridina or Bee tank. The warm,…
What actually keeps Sulawesi shrimp alive in a home tank? Removing the three things that kill them most often: stocking a tank before it’s truly mature, letting the water move under the shrimp, and letting waste build up. Warm alkaline…
There’s a blanched spinach leaf cooling on the counter and a Sulawesi colony across the room you’d like to spoil a little. Your shrimp will eat it: Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp.) settle on blanched spinach and work it over, and…
What do you feed a Sulawesi shrimplet that’s barely 2 mm long? The same thing the adults eat: the living film of algae, diatoms and bacteria that grows over rock, glass and filter surfaces. Nothing published measures what a newly…
Your new Sulawesi tank is full of RO water, and the bag of Sulawesi mineral salt is still sitting unopened next to it. You do need that bag: a Sulawesi tank is normally built from reverse osmosis water plus a…
Is that zucchini in the fridge fair game for your Sulawesi shrimp? Yes, they’ll climb onto a small piece of blanched vegetable and work at it, mostly for the soft film on its surface. The plant fiber underneath isn’t what…
