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.
No. Sulawesi shrimp don’t need frequent water changes, and a fixed weekly schedule is one of the easier ways to destabilize a colony. In a mature, lightly fed tank the useful routine is replacing evaporation with pure RO water, testing…
A female Sulawesi shrimp carries a very small brood. Published counts for the lake Caridina of Sulawesi mostly fall between about 12 and 30 eggs at a time[[1]][[2]], and the highest figure recorded for any of them is 26 to…
Losing one or two Sulawesi shrimp a day, day after day, is a different problem from losing most of the colony at once. A steady trickle points at a condition the tank has drifted into, one the shrimp can hold…
No. Compared with other freshwater shrimp, Sulawesi shrimp are one of the least forgiving groups in the hobby, and typical difficulty for the group runs advanced to expert. The daily routine is light once a tank is mature, but the…
If your Sulawesi shrimp are alive but nothing is reproducing, the cause is almost always the tank rather than the animals. In most stalled systems it’s one of four things: water that drifted out of range or moves too much,…
A filter is enough for Sulawesi shrimp when it keeps the water surface moving. Filters driven by an air pump, airlift undergravel plates and trickle systems already do that, so a separate air stone is optional. A sealed canister filter…
Sulawesi shrimp eggs, from lake Caridina such as the Cardinal shrimp (Caridina dennerli), usually hatch about three weeks after the eggs first appear. The female carries the whole clutch under her tail until each egg hatches directly into a tiny…
Most Sulawesi shrimp keepers do need a heater, but not all of them. Whether yours does depends on your room, not your region. These lake shrimp, the warm-water Caridina species from Sulawesi in Indonesia, need water held steadily at 79-86°F…
Bee/Crystal Caridina and Sulawesi shrimp are both members of the genus Caridina, yet they sit at opposite ends of freshwater shrimp keeping. Bee/Crystal lines (Crystal Red, Crystal Black, Bee and related soft-water shrimp) want cool, soft, acidic water. Sulawesi lake…
A Sulawesi shrimp aquarium needs six groups of supplies: an RO source and a Sulawesi specific mineral, test gear that reads TDS and carbonate hardness accurately, a reliable heater with an independent temperature check, inert substrate and alkaline rock, gentle…
Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp. from the Malili lakes, such as Caridina dennerli, the Cardinal) are advanced specialists. Most of their health problems trace back to water quality and recent changes rather than a specific disease. This guide groups the plausible…
Sulawesi shrimp live mostly on the layer of biofilm, algae and microorganisms growing on rock, glass, hardscape and filter media, and prepared food is a small supplement on top of it. Getting the balance wrong in the other direction, by…
