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.
Ammonia poisoning punishes a Sulawesi tank harder than most. The warm alkaline water these shrimp need keeps far more of any ammonia in its toxic un-ionized form, so a number your kit can barely show is already a real dose.…
If the pH reading in your Sulawesi tank has moved and the shrimp are behaving strangely, the speed of the move matters more than the number it landed on. These shrimp come from lakes that barely change from one year…
Both of these shrimp are Caridina, and that’s where the similarity ends. The Amano shrimp (Caridina multidentata) is a large, adaptable river shrimp people buy to graze algae in a planted community tank. Sulawesi shrimp such as the White Sock…
If your Sulawesi shrimp have stopped grazing, gone pale, or started darting around the glass, the tank is almost certainly telling you something about the water rather than about a disease. These are lake animals kept in a narrow band…
If you’re choosing between the two, keep cherry shrimp. Sulawesi shrimp aren’t a harder version of the same animal. They’re a different tank: warm, alkaline, built from RO water, and left to grow a grazing surface for weeks before anything…
Lake Poso in central Sulawesi holds eleven shrimp species of the genus Caridina that live nowhere else. Nine live in the lake itself. Two live only in the streams that feed it, and five of the nine were described as…
Eleven described Caridina species have been recorded from Lake Towuti, the largest lake in the Malili system of South Sulawesi. Only a few of them ever reach a home tank. Below is the list, matched to the names you’ll actually…
Crystal shrimp and Sulawesi shrimp are both Caridina. That’s where the resemblance stops. Crystal shrimp are kept cool, soft and acidic at 60-72°F (15.5-22°C) and pH 5.8-6.8. Sulawesi shrimp are kept warm and alkaline at 79-86°F (26-30°C) and pH 7.5-8.5.…
Sulawesi shrimp come from a handful of ancient lakes on one Indonesian island, and the part of those lakes they actually occupy is small: a sunlit band of rock, sand and sunken wood close to shore. The water there is…
Two names, three animals, and one of them isn’t even freshwater. Cardinal shrimp and Sulawesi harlequin shrimp are both Caridina from the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, and they want the same warm, alkaline water. The harlequin shrimp a reef store…
Sulawesi shrimp don’t come from a river or a pond. They come from two ancient lake systems on one Indonesian island, Lake Poso and the Malili chain.[[1]] Those lakes have been cut off from everything else for over a million…
If you’re trying to work out which shrimp actually come from Lake Matano, the honest answer is short. They’re all Caridina, only a handful of species have published records from the lake, and just one of them is likely to…
