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    Caridina denticulata sinensis (Edited)

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    Hi all

    Can anyone tell me anything about Caridina dendiculata sinensis?Does it play nice with other fish (particularly killies)? How easy is to propogate. Anyone got some nice pictures?

    Thanks

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    Hi,

    it's in German but it's really interesting :

    http://www.wirbellose.de/arten.html
    Regards,
    Huy

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    Ok, so it is fantasticly colourful and seems to breed easily. Super. But how will it fare with my killies? Will it try to eat my Rivulus? I'm sure my deltaensis would try to eat it...

    tt4n

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    These shrimps are rather small (1.5 cm/2 cm). I bought six shrimps in April, they are hard to find in France. I kept them in a 20L tank, there was no fish in this tank, only Java moss and floating plants. Now I certainly have 40 or 50 shrimps . They are very easy to breed.
    I don't keep them with my killies because I fear they might eat the eggs. And I think the killies would easily eat the young shrimps because they're very small (2 mm).
    Regards,
    Huy

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    These are the cherry shrimps of the trade. We find loads of this locally in Singapore in good numbers but prices are high at some places. They're among the easiest of the shrimps to breed in heavily planted tanks or specialist shrimp tanks. Propagates by the higher order method whereby the shrimp release young shrimplets (miniature versions of the adults) that are fully formed at the size of about 2-3 mm. The shrimplets are pale white in colour. Very beautiful shrimp when in good colouration.

    They are fine as tankmates for smaller killifish but their young will become snacks for adult killifish as small as Simpsonichthys magnificus. Adults are easily hunted by larger Aphyosemion and Fundulopanchax species. I would not keep them with killies unless you have a densely planted tank with loads of mosses and java ferns, otherwise shrimp mortality will be very very high.

    Good luck with your shrimps Tyrone, and by the way, it's denticulata, not dendiculata. :wink:
    Fish.. Simply Irresistable
    Back to Killies... slowly.

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