20 gallon long sulawesi tank

[fishman1]

They are doing alright out of the 20 I've only been able to count 17 but I'm sure they are hiding somewhere. I've had a really bad hair algae outbreak and put in some amanos but the amanos were hogging all the food so I ripped out the hair algae and put the amanos in my yellow shrimp tank. I have 4 females berried one is about to be ready to hatch I think. My water conditions are 8.1-8.3 ph 83F I dont have a tds meter but everything else I don't really measure. I usually just do small water changes either once a week or 2 weeks and just do top offs that's pretty much it.

[Totenkampf]

cool, so you would say that they arent a super hard dwarf shrimp to keep? i am thinking of trying some once my 10 gallon gets a little more mature.

[fishman1]

not really hard to keep

[R_sustaita]

They can be as hard or easy as you want them to be!

[eklikewhoa]

R_masterShrimpKeeper

[eklikewhoa]

I think for houston the hardest to keep is most Cardina sp.

[armthehomeless]

I think for houston the hardest to keep is most Cardina sp.

Cardinals are Cardina sp.

:-)

[eklikewhoa]

meant to say non-sulawesi cardina

[fishman1]

Thank you houston if only your water was ro/di from out of the tap and low tds

[armthehomeless]

meant to say non-sulawesi cardina

Completely disagreed. Sulawesi shrimps are the most difficult shrimp. Cardinals are one of the easier ones . . . but even at that, getting WC cardinals are quite a challenge. There is a reason not too many people have them after they entered the aquarium trade in the last decade.

I haven't had trouble keeping CBS, CRS, OEBT, BKK, etc . . . but have had difficulties with 6 Banded shrimp, Harlequin Shrimp, and Red Goldflake Shrimp. Of course this is only my opinion, but I'd like to challenge someone to keep some of the lesser seen Sulawesi inverts.

[fishman1]

If only there were f5+ harlequins and red goldflake then I'd try to keep some but wc no thanks I'd rather keep my money then lose it all

[Totenkampf]

They can be as hard or easy as you want them to be!

r_notinformative. have you kept cardinals too rick?

[Totenkampf]

Completely disagreed. Sulawesi shrimps are the most difficult shrimp. Cardinals are one of the easier ones . . . but even at that, getting WC cardinals are quite a challenge. There is a reason not too many people have them after they entered the aquarium trade in the last decade.

I haven't had trouble keeping CBS, CRS, OEBT, BKK, etc . . . but have had difficulties with 6 Banded shrimp, Harlequin Shrimp, and Red Goldflake Shrimp. Of course this is only my opinion, but I'd like to challenge someone to keep some of the lesser seen Sulawesi inverts.

I was reading through a thread at TPT or APC where the guy bought 50 each harlequins, cardinals, yellow cheeks, and three lined (?) a couple years ago. they were all WC and it must have been maddening for him to loose them all over several months. the cardinals fared the best, the harlequins (my favorite looking) didnt stand a chance. after reading that i have been trying to work myself up to cardinals. my wild heteropoda and snowballs are in city water now but they have stopped breeding so i wanna say neos arent even all that fond of its parameters.

does anyone do anything special to keep the biofilm going or is it pretty easy once the tank is 'aged'? this guy was trying some sort of liquid biofilm for marine tanks on rocks and plopping the whole rock in at feeding times

[sunkenmetal]

My opinion is to just have a good aged tank...

[armthehomeless]

Tank raised cardinals are pretty hardy. With an aged tank and algae, you'll be set. Getting WC Sulawesi shrimp and TR Sulawesi shrimp are different ball games. Its is worth paying more for TR.