Jeff's Sulawesi Shrimps Tank (162L)

**Zenislev** · 19th May 2008, 18:46

Very very nice setup! Looks very natural, just like the branchy shallows. Really make me feel like going back to shrimps.

**quanou** · 29th Dec 2008, 07:34

Hi Jeff, great job!
Do you have some news for us, please ?
What about interbreeding issues ?
Thanks

**Navanod** · 2nd Jan 2009, 19:01

wow, super thread dig from May!
but being a newer member, I would like to know the recent developments too!

**daphne12** · 7th Feb 2009, 19:13

Hi Ragn4rok,
it have been some time now and i wonder how are your Sulawesi shrimps? and new pricture to update us?

**chungck** · 1st Apr 2009, 03:55

Hi,

I'm from Holland and also keeping the Sulawesi shrimp....sp Cardinal.....

I have one couple and they started last december 23th.....with breeding...and are very succesfull....now I have 42 till 47 young ones from three generations....

The female cardinal is now the fourth time pregnant...in a few days she will hatch again.....to have a new generations of shrimplets.....last time ( third generation ) i counted there were 20 of them....

**Navanod** · 1st Apr 2009, 10:21

Very nice! I've not seen so many of them even in the shops!

Are those sulawesi rocks? Do they really help the shrimps?
What are your water parameters? pH 8+?

**Fuzzy** · 1st Apr 2009, 10:53

Originally Posted by Navanod

Very nice! I've not seen so many of them even in the shops!

Are those sulawesi rocks? Do they really help the shrimps?
What are your water parameters? pH 8+?

Very nice!

Those look like lava rock. Only time I've seen this many Sulawesi shrimp was at Colourful on a particular shipment day.

**chungck** · 2nd Apr 2009, 19:22

Yes, I'm only using lava rocks.....and less plants..some little grass

Today I will buy some Red Goldflake ( 10 ) and later I will expand and also want to keep the Harlequin.....but I've heard that this kind is hard to keep....

Yes parameters is pH 7-8.....the higher the better

**xiandan** · 2nd Apr 2009, 20:45

wow..nice shrimps you have there!
Thanks for sharing

**nasty12** · 3rd Apr 2009, 00:39

Originally Posted by chungck

Yes, I'm only using lava rocks.....and less plants..some little grass

Today I will buy some Red Goldflake ( 10 ) and later I will expand and also want to keep the Harlequin.....but I've heard that this kind is hard to keep....

ya heard that Harlequin is 1 of the toughest! good luck though!

**Philosophos** · 3rd Apr 2009, 04:13

For keeping pH high, aragonite is commonly used for LMW aquariums. CaCO3 hits its max solubility in a non-co2 tank around 8.0-8.6pH, meaning you'd be buffered to that range. If you like playing with chemistry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium...ate#Solubility

-Philosophos

**chungck** · 3rd Apr 2009, 18:49

Yesterday, I got my Yellow cheeks, 11 of them.....

very pleased wth it.....

later I will posted some pictures......

**dperkowski** · 6th Apr 2009, 17:04

It's hard to keep this two species together.
Spinata (yellow cheek, goldflake) comes from Towuti Lake, Cardinals from Matano.
Yellow cheeks likes leafs - they lives in they natural habitat under leafs, Cardinals likes rocks.
Leafs = humus ("garbniki", i dont know how to translate this) - Cardinals don't like this.

**chungck** · 7th Apr 2009, 17:39

@ dperkowski

thanks for the information.......I will separate the Yellow cheeks from this tank and put them in another tank with more plants in it......

what about the red orchid and the harlekine?....which lake does they come?