40g Sulawesi Tank

[armthehomeless]

I've had several people ask me to share my 'secret' for keeping sulawesi shrimps and snails. Here's my secret: there isn't one. This is a 40g breeder with Leslies Pool Filter sand as a substrate and rocks from the front yards around the neighborhood for the shrimp to climb on/ for algae to grow on. I have cardinal shrimp and yellow rabbit snails in the tank.



Filtration: Eheim 2217 with a large sponge prefilter
Lighting: Coralife 2x36" T5 on for ~10 hours a day
Flora: Anubias and hornwort -- Anubius seems to be the only plants that the snails don't eat. The hornwort is floating to suck up excess nutrients.

I keep the tank at 80-82F. I do 15-25% WC weekly. I feed a wide variety of foods sparingly. NLS wafers, spirulina flake, shrimp pellets (yeah ... I said it), spinach, romaine lettuce, and NLS 1mm pellets.

[armthehomeless]

This is certainly not the only way to keep them . . . this is how I do it. Cardinal shrimp are one of the more forgiving (high end) sulawesi species.

[fishman1]

Do you keep them in a 40 breeder or long? And do you also add crushed coral to raise the ph or just pfs?

[armthehomeless]

I add nothing to raise the Ph. It is 8.0 out of the tap.

[armthehomeless]

Do you keep them in a 40 breeder or long? And do you also add crushed coral to raise the ph or just pfs?

Breeder.

[Warlock]

thats awesome!!

[Sea-agg09]

For the record, it is still considered cheating to do the obvious thing well.

[Warlock]

hey.. will they breed with other shrimp?!

[eklikewhoa]

I will attest to this... It's boggling how this use to be an invert thought to be hard to keep/breed.

[armthehomeless]

hey.. will they breed with other shrimp?!

I've heard people say both. I have no experience one way or the other... just because I try to keep one species per tank.

[Warlock]

nice.. so you have all your shrimp in 40 breeders?

[armthehomeless]

No. Half are 40 breeders. The other half are 24" by 24" by 12".

[Sea-agg09]

hey.. will they breed with other shrimp?!

Cardinals will breed with other shrimp of the same genus. I know for sure people have mixed cardinals with gold-cheeks to get a pretty cool variant. So far the sentiment is pretty strong towards preservation of the natural lines, but I don't see this lasting, and I think sulawesi shrimp will eventually turn into the OB cichlid of the invert world. There will always be appreciation for the natural strains, which I am definitely a proponent of, but others will always want to push on.

[Warlock]

sea agg.. i was asking cuz i don't want mixing..

i really like shrimp and am thinking about getting rid of my discus and go just shrimp :)

[aquabee]

I love the cardinals! Gorgeous.