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.
A Sulawesi clutch that never hatches lands in one of three patterns: eggs that were never fertilized, dropped eggs, or embryos that stopped part way. By the time you’re looking at the problem, that clutch has already been decided, and…
If the adults in your Sulawesi tank look normal and the shrimplets keep vanishing, the cause is rarely a disease you can treat. Newly released Sulawesi shrimp (lake Caridina spp.) die from problems that only reach an animal that small.…
Raising Sulawesi shrimplets is mostly work you finish before they exist. What decides whether a brood comes through? How mature the grazing surfaces are when it hatches, how steady the warm alkaline water stays afterwards, and how little you change…
If food is still sitting on the rock an hour after you dropped it in, you’re feeding a Sulawesi tank more than it can use. Leftovers matter more here than in a Neocaridina or Bee tank. The warm, alkaline water…
You raise a Sulawesi colony’s survival by removing the three things that kill it most often: stocking a tank before it’s genuinely mature, letting the water move under the shrimp, and letting waste build up in warm alkaline conditions that…
Yes. Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp.) will settle on a piece of blanched spinach and work it over, and nothing in the published evidence says the leaf itself poisons them. The catch isn’t the spinach. It’s that these shrimp are fine…
Baby Sulawesi shrimp eat what 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 hatched Sulawesi shrimp actually takes, so the useful answer is…
Yes. A Sulawesi tank is normally built from reverse osmosis water and a Sulawesi-specific mineral salt. So the supplement isn’t an extra you add on top of the water. It’s what turns pure water into water these shrimp can live…
Yes, Sulawesi shrimp will climb onto a piece of blanched vegetable and work at it, and there is nothing wrong with offering one. What they take off it is mostly the soft surface material, not the plant fiber underneath. That…
Yes. Sulawesi shrimp will graze spirulina, and nothing about them makes it a strange food. These lake Caridina spend their day scraping biofilm, aufwuchs and algae off rock. Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) reaches the tank as a dried powder or pressed…
No. Sulawesi shrimp don’t need CO2, and a pressurized CO2 system doesn’t belong on a Sulawesi display tank. The group is kept at pH 7.5-8.5 with KH 3-6 dKH, and injected CO2 pulls against both of those numbers at once.…
Yes, but only one kind of algae. Sulawesi shrimp graze the thin living film that grows on rock, glass and hardscape, which is mostly diatoms, single-celled algae, bacteria and fine detritus bound together. They don’t touch the algae most keepers…
