Every guide we’ve written on keeping Sulawesi shrimp, covering RO water and KH, feeding, breeding, tank mates and what to check when shrimp start dying. Setting up your first Sulawesi tank? Start with the beginner’s guide. Already have shrimp in the tank? Sulawesi shrimp care parameters lists the water numbers we keep to and how to hold them steady.
You’ve fallen for Sulawesi shrimp and you’re planning your first tank for them. You can make it work as a beginner, but only with a hardier Lake Poso or Lake Matano line, warm alkaline water built from remineralized RO, and…
Setting up a Sulawesi tank and not sure which numbers to aim for? Sulawesi shrimp need warm, alkaline, mineral-rich water held very stable: about 79-86°F (26-30°C), pH 7.5-8.5, GH 4-8 dGH, KH 3-6 dKH and TDS 150-250 ppm, with ammonia…
What is Lake Matano’s water actually like? Its surface is warm, startlingly clear and short of dissolved minerals, at 77-82°F (25-28°C) and pH 8.6 in one study and pH 7.4 in another. Neither set of numbers is what you should…
Your Sulawesi shrimp creep over the rock all day, and the moment you lean in, they’re gone. That’s normal: a settled Sulawesi shrimp spends almost all its time working a thin living film off rock with its front legs, and…
How close should your tank get to Lake Towuti’s water? Not very: across seven surface stations sampled between June and October 2009, the lake averaged 85.3°F (29.6°C) at pH 7.46-8.40, with a conductivity of only 139-156 µS[[1]] That’s warmer, more…
Your Sulawesi shrimp spend the whole day picking at bare rock, even with food in the tank. That’s what their lakes built them for. A handful of very old Indonesian lakes hold almost nothing a shrimp can eat, so these…
Is there a fish that’s safe to keep with your Sulawesi shrimp? No fish belongs in a Sulawesi shrimp tank: some eat your adults, the peaceful ones eat the shrimplets, and the rest quietly take the biofilm and grazing time…
You’ve settled on Sulawesi shrimp, and now you want the most colorful one you can get. Nobody has ranked Sulawesi shrimp by color, so pick the pattern you like best, then check it will still show in your tank. The…
Which snail can actually live in a Sulawesi shrimp tank? Start with the Sulawesi rabbit snails, Tylomelania, and add a nerite or two for the glass, because rabbit snails come from the same lakes, hold the same warm alkaline water…
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…
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…
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…
