KH, GH, pH, cycling, and testing explained.
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…
Can an ammonia reading your kit can barely show really hurt Sulawesi shrimp? Yes, because the warm alkaline water these shrimp need keeps far more of any ammonia in its toxic un-ionized form, so that faint reading is already a…
The pH in your Sulawesi tank has shifted, and the shrimp are behaving strangely. What hurts them is the speed of that move more than the number it landed on, because these shrimp come from lakes that barely change from…
What is the water actually like in the lakes your Sulawesi shrimp come from? It’s warm all year, mildly alkaline and very low in dissolved minerals, a pairing most fresh water doesn’t manage, and it’s slow to change. These shrimp…
So what makes the lakes behind your Sulawesi shrimp so special? Age, isolation and water that hardly ever changes. The shrimp come from two ancient lake systems on one Indonesian island, Lake Poso and the Malili chain,[[1]] cut off from…
How long should you really acclimate Sulawesi shrimp, when most care guides say two to three hours? No published study gives a measured acclimation time for this group, and the clock only governs one part of the process: bringing the…
Your Sulawesi shrimp are on their way, and the tank they’re heading for has to be ready before they are. Acclimating Sulawesi shrimp is mostly done before the box arrives: in a tank that’s already warm, alkaline, cycled and grazed…
Your new Sulawesi tank is full of RO water, and the bag of Sulawesi mineral salt is still sitting unopened next to it. You do need that bag: a Sulawesi tank is normally built from reverse osmosis water plus a…
Does a Sulawesi shrimp tank need the CO2 setup your planted tank runs on? 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…
Your Sulawesi tank has settled, the shrimp look fine, and every schedule you’ve read gives a different number. Change the water in a Sulawesi shrimp tank when your test kit says so, not on a fixed calendar: when nitrate climbs…
Your test kit says the pH in your Sulawesi tank has slipped, and you want it back up without hurting the shrimp. Do it by rebuilding the water outside the tank and exchanging it in slowly, not by dosing the…
