Sulawesi Shrimp Journal (Caridina Dennerli & Woltereckae) Sulawesi Tank #1
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Great tanks guys!
I just found another berried cardinal shrimp in my tank! This is NOT part of the new cardinal shipment that I got, so it wasn't a "cheated" berried
This new berried cardinal was from my previous shipment from 3 weeks ago. (I separated the new and old shipments)
I guess this confirms that my tank is a happy tank
I just found another berried cardinal shrimp in my tank! This is NOT part of the new cardinal shipment that I got, so it wasn't a "cheated" berried
This new berried cardinal was from my previous shipment from 3 weeks ago. (I separated the new and old shipments)I guess this confirms that my tank is a happy tank
Congrats! I'm looking forward to getting the Cardinals and Harlequins. Any updates on the Harlequins? They are notorious for not doing well in captivity at all and I am still a bit iffy about them, but willing to give it a try. My tap is a solid 8.2 pH, so that eliminates the tinkering of water like that for CRS
Congrats! I'm looking forward to getting the Cardinals and Harlequins. Any updates on the Harlequins? They are notorious for not doing well in captivity at all and I am still a bit iffy about them, but willing to give it a try. My tap is a solid 8.2 pH, so that eliminates the tinkering of water like that for CRS
My berried harlequin is doing fine. For the new shipment of harlequins, I actually got a pretty high shipping rate to me, about 80% survival. I'm quite impressed as they did so poorly before!
I do NOT have another sulawesi tank, therefore, to house the new shipment, I bought plastic breeder boxes from petsmart. Like, a ton of them... I float them in my tank and acclimated my new shrimp. Each box contains a different shrimp ;-) This allows me to separate the new and old shipment.
The night they came in, it was too late for me to stock up on more boxes unfortunately, so I had to dump my red orchids and yellow cheeks into the tank and not into boxes. I made sure the new cardinals and new harlequins were separated first before anything else. So in any case, for the past day (till now), I am trying to scoop out the yellow cheeks into a box for themselves. I've finished scooping out the red orchids into their own box.
So for people who are getting sulawesi shrimp from me, just check this journal out for info on their current water parameters and such. It's going to be the same until further notice.
Overall though, the harlequins are giving me little problems... They're probably my favorite right now ;-)
2 new berried Cardinals now. Making that a grand total of 4 pregnant shrimp.
I wonder what triggered the sudden breeding behavior. The addition to new shrimp in the tank? Or it could be because the tank is fully cycled now, therefore, they felt it was perfect?
Oh well, this is good news to me either way. I'm excited to see them hatch and see how well they'd do.
I wonder what triggered the sudden breeding behavior. The addition to new shrimp in the tank? Or it could be because the tank is fully cycled now, therefore, they felt it was perfect?
Oh well, this is good news to me either way. I'm excited to see them hatch and see how well they'd do.
Thank you! Update me as time goes on with your new shrimp ;-) Welcome to the Sulawesi club! Hahaha...
And as another tank update, I found a 5th berried cardinal. Looks like they're getting preggers left and right. Still only one harlequin berried, perhaps I only have one mature female or the rest are males? The remaining 6 (out of 7) look smaller than my berried female, so it could be either... Nonetheless, I'm happy with my results so far. I hope the people who bought shrimp from me or bought Sulawesi shrimp elsewhere recently are having as much success as I am. They're a real gem to have. The first thing I do when I get home is watch them for at least 10 minutes. Then eat my dinner and go back and stare at them some more. Who needs a TV
Furthermore, I won't be updating anymore about berried shrimp. Pretty much confirmed that my tank stats are okay for getting them berried. Next updates will either be to answer questions or if something new happens, aside from getting preggers. I'll try to test my gh/kh sometime this week, if I have time... Sorry for the delay folks!
Helpful tip for today!
They're not as sensitive as people make them seem to be but they are definitely much more sensitive than other shrimp. More so than CRS, definitely...
As long as you try to keep the tank as stable as possible, they're not too hard.
I now have 5 berried cardinal shrimp and 2 berried harlequins. These shrimp are from the ones I got 4 weeks ago.
In my most recent shipment, I actually found one of my red orchids get berried in my tank 5 days after it was introduced in my tank. So I'm quite pleased I'm keeping that berried orchid of course, hehehhee...
Once the shrimp is established into the tank, it is smooth sailing from there. Or at least, for me anyway.
One little helpful thing that I want to recommend to everyone is to have a lid on your tank. Since temp water needs to be in the 80s, you can certainly expect a lot of evaporation to occur. And if your tank evaporates, that means you're going to have to refill the tank at least once every other day. I notice that when I left my lid off for a day, the next day, I had to add a lot of water into my 20 gallon long to refill the water back. I lost about an inch and a half of water via evaporation. The next day, after adding water to top off, I lost many sulawesi shrimp. I counted about 6 or 7. Most of the ones that died were the ones from the new shipment. I lost one cardinal that I got from 4 weeks ago. So new shrimp were hurt a lot more than my established one.
So take note folks!!! Careful with top offs!
They're not as sensitive as people make them seem to be but they are definitely much more sensitive than other shrimp. More so than CRS, definitely...
As long as you try to keep the tank as stable as possible, they're not too hard.
I now have 5 berried cardinal shrimp and 2 berried harlequins. These shrimp are from the ones I got 4 weeks ago.
In my most recent shipment, I actually found one of my red orchids get berried in my tank 5 days after it was introduced in my tank. So I'm quite pleased I'm keeping that berried orchid of course, hehehhee...
Once the shrimp is established into the tank, it is smooth sailing from there. Or at least, for me anyway.
One little helpful thing that I want to recommend to everyone is to have a lid on your tank. Since temp water needs to be in the 80s, you can certainly expect a lot of evaporation to occur. And if your tank evaporates, that means you're going to have to refill the tank at least once every other day. I notice that when I left my lid off for a day, the next day, I had to add a lot of water into my 20 gallon long to refill the water back. I lost about an inch and a half of water via evaporation. The next day, after adding water to top off, I lost many sulawesi shrimp. I counted about 6 or 7. Most of the ones that died were the ones from the new shipment. I lost one cardinal that I got from 4 weeks ago. So new shrimp were hurt a lot more than my established one.
So take note folks!!! Careful with top offs!
most helpful thing is to get them in alive, something I have not been very succesful with lately
I got the text this morning about that!
They're very poor shippers and I heard that the original number of 30 something dwindled to 26 or something. I know a few died in transition when I had to add them into the tank but I never imagined it went down that much! I started out with what I think was around 33-38 give or take. A few died so I want to assume about 30 or so was shipped (that is, with me estimating with worst case scenario). Although I think only 4 died...
Anyway, besides all that, I'm sorry to hear how poorly they shipped. How long did it take to get to you?
