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.
If you’re looking at a pale line where the carapace meets the first abdominal segment on a Sulawesi shrimp, the answer depends on two things. How wide is that line, and what is the shrimp doing? A faint, narrow line…
If Sulawesi shrimp are still dying one at a time after you’ve corrected everything the water will let you correct, a full reset is worth considering because the suspects that are left don’t live in the water column. They live…
Yes, and it’s one of the few things in a Sulawesi tank worth treating as an emergency rather than a setback. Shrimp grow only by casting the old exoskeleton and building a new one [[1]], so a molt that stalls…
Read what the female left behind first: it tells you more than any single cause you could guess at. Eggs sitting inside a cast shell, loose eggs on the substrate while she is bare, and a clutch that thins out…
No. Sulawesi shrimp and Bee or Crystal Caridina are kept in two ranges that never meet. So a shared tank means one of the two groups is living outside its own range every day it’s in there. The genus name…
Almost none, and the honest answer is a category rather than a list. It’s a very small, surface feeding nano fish, added last to an established tank. The keeper has to accept that shrimplets are part of the price. Every…
Yes. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania spp.) are one of the few tankmates whose water requirements genuinely match Sulawesi shrimp, because the two animals come out of the same lakes. Chemistry isn’t what decides the outcome here. Load is. A full grown…
Yes, Sulawesi shrimp and Neocaridina can live in the same tank, but only on Sulawesi terms. The water is set for the Sulawesi shrimp, and the Neocaridina are a small group you manage rather than a second breeding colony. The…
Sulawesi shrimp are kept at 79-86°F (26-30°C), and nothing in the published record singles out one point inside that band as better than the rest. These are advanced animals, and temperature is one of the few parts of their care…
No. Sulawesi shrimp aren’t extinct in the wild, and no species in the genus Caridina currently sits in the Extinct or the Extinct in the Wild category of the IUCN Red List. The idea comes from one species. The Sulawesi…
Yes, they can. Sulawesi shrimp are separate species, and that doesn’t stop them mating once they share a tank. The conservation group Sulawesi Keepers has published breeder accounts and photographs of crossings between Sulawesi lake species.[[1]] They include a hybrid…
You’ll almost never catch Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp.) in the act. What you get instead is a short chain of indirect signs: a freshly cast shell on the substrate, a sudden burst of searching by one or two males, sometimes…
