Water parameters, molting, and species guides.
Is your Sulawesi tank reading above the typical pH range of 7.5-8.5, or still climbing? Don’t reach for an acid: remake the replacement water on a mineral salt that settles lower, then let small water changes carry the tank down…
Your Sulawesi tank is running, the shrimp are grazing, and now the job is keeping it that way. Most of that job is what you don’t change: top off with pure water, change a little at a time with matched…
Has your Sulawesi tank’s KH test come up short of 3 dKH? Raise it by preparing new water outside the aquarium with a Sulawesi mineral salt that carries carbonate, then exchanging that water in over several changes until the tank…
Your Sulawesi tank is filled, heated and running, and the shrimp you’ve picked out are waiting on one thing: you deciding it’s ready. Plan on at least 3-4 weeks with a powdered starter, and stock only when ammonia and nitrite…
Got the mineral mixed and the water dialed in, and now you’re stuck on what goes on the bottom? Use an inert bed: crushed lava rock or basalt gravel for most Sulawesi tanks, dark, coarse enough to stay open and…
You’ve got an empty tank, a pile of rock and a plan to bring a Sulawesi lake home. Build it as a warm, alkaline, rock and biofilm tank on remineralized RO water, hold it steady at 79-86°F (26-30°C) and pH…
How much oxygen do Sulawesi shrimp actually need? Keep the water close to air saturation for whatever temperature you run inside 79-86°F (26-30°C), and get there with constant surface movement instead of a stronger pump. That’s the water these shrimp…
You’ve got Sulawesi shrimp in the tank, or on the way, and you want them still grazing the rocks a year from now. Keeping them healthy is mostly a stability job, not a medicine job: hold 79-86°F (26-30°C), pH 7.5-8.5,…
Why do Sulawesi shrimp need alkaline water when so many other shrimp in the same genus are kept soft and acidic? Because it’s the water they evolved in, and nothing in a closed aquarium replaces it. The lake-system Caridina sold…
You’ve put a heater on the Sulawesi tank, the care sheet says 79-86°F (26-30°C), and you’d like to know whether that number is real. It is: Sulawesi shrimp need warm water because they’re endemic to the ancient lakes of central…
Can a Sulawesi shrimp tank be run like the cherry or crystal shrimp tank you already know? No: Sulawesi shrimp are lake specialists that need warm alkaline water at 79-86°F (26-30°C) and pH 7.5-8.5, an inert tank with a real…
You’re about to spend real money on a group of Sulawesi shrimp, and you’d like to know how long they’ll be around. At Shrimp Aquatics, our Sulawesi shrimp live about one to two years, and most keepers plan on about…
