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Yes, it was looking promising what with a berried female etc. I kept checking the water parameters and even when I came back from hols (only away 5 days) the parameters seemed to be normal (for Sulawesi anyway!) and the temp at it's usual 28 deg C so I really have no idea. That led to my...

Just come back from hols to find my final 4 dead :( Very sad. I have no idea, but something clearly was not right for them. The tended to die off in pairs. I actually think my tank was too small and the fluctuations were too much for them despite the tank being in a suitable spot (no...

Very sad to find a dead shrimp this morning, no apparent reason, however, I was checking them this evening and found a female carrying eggs! So hopefully the dead one this morning was a male and he has done his work :oops: ANyway, will keep you posted, it's a tense time for me, if I test the...

Haha, that gave me a good giggle.... I think it'll be the snails going on the sale/swop board rather than the shrimp tho!

Found two more snail babies this morning! There'll be no room for shrimp at this rate....

Found another Sulawesi snail baby today, yay! Funny how I get very excited about these snails breeding but not the pest ones in my big tank :roll: .... now if they bred as fast as those.... :o

WOW! Gorgeous set up, Mine are just in a tank with some rocks and some moss. What do you find yours like to eat?

ok, will give it a go and update you! A shrimp smorgasbord coming up.... (as in food for the shrimp not shrimp as the food :lol: )

Yep, They are quite shy so it is trick to see what they do eat, maybe I just need to persist!

The one that died from not shedding properly was not long after I got them, since then I have found lots of successful sheds, but fingers crossed! Apart from shrimp pellets, what else did you find yours liked to eat LD? I have tried them on courgette and spinach but they seemed disinterested...

Yeah! They are not as prolific as normal snails though, typical. The two shrimp deaths, one was an unknown cause but the other developed a lump (not fungal or bacterial from what I could tell) and just didn't shed properly and I found it dead :cry: Fingers crossed for the remaining :mrgreen:

Update: No shrimp babies yet, but just found 2 baby Sulawesi snails in the tank, they are super cute but kind of large - they weren't obvious 5 days ago when I did the last water change! Seems the water parameters are fine, at least for the snails! I have had 2 shrimp deaths that I know of and...

Will get some up soon! (And less blurry ones too....) :oops:

Hey Neil, all good, no deaths and out foraging everyday. Feeding happily on Hikari shrimp cuisine now. I saw one fanning but as I tried to take a closer look it retreated into the rocks, I think it might be too early for eggs but I have my fingers crossed. I added 4 cherry shrimp from my main...

Quick update, all still live...YAY! And some have shed. Added 4 more sulawsi snails so now I have 6, I am thinking a bigger tank might be in order... Carried out a 10% WC no worries, next stage - babies (fingers crossed)

Ahhh! Ok, See, what would I do without you LD! :D

Thanks LD - I doubt I'd have much luck growing plants in here even if I wanted too! Just gave them some Hikari Crab Cuisine crushed up and they searched the tank for bits of it and ate them fast. I have some Hikari Shrimp Cuisine on order - hopefully that will be fine for them, plus the odd...

Still fine! They are picking on the algae from the old rocks. Some pics of the snails:

Some (bit rubbish) pics of the Cardinals - for better pics see LDs brilliant cardinal pics :D

lol, keep those happy shrimp vibes coming....

Lol, yeah who wouldn't! :lol: I hope someone else was able to make use of the heads up though and got some to breed too. We were coming back in the car and I was "drive faster I need to get to the shop!! I was thinking, I have a spare tank, a seeded sponge filter, algae covered rocks, spare...

Thanks LD the tank has seeded sand and algae covered rocks from my other tank and a sponge filter thats been running for several months from my cory tank plus 30% water from the cory tank (no detectable nitrite or ammonia in it) so fingers crossed that will be enough to keep the ammonia and...

Thanks Aaron!

I bought 10 of these yesterday so thought I'd set up this topic as a what they like/don't like depending on how it goes! I have done a lot of reading about the water parameters that they seem to like/breed in but some advice is conflicting so I am just going to try and use my judgement/take...

We unexpectedly came back early yesterday so I had some time to get the Cardinal shrimps, so after spending all of one nano second deciding whether or not to get them I drove to the shop and picked up the last 10 that they had. (I feel bad for advertising them then getting them myself - sorry...

They were labelled as "matano" shrimp, best call 1st and describe them by their looks to make sure!

LOL! Paulo, the main reason I am concerned about picking some up to post to people is the risk involved, ie I buy some and they die whilst in my care. When you had some last how easy were they to keep from the off? I am happy to set up a holding tank (I have spare tanks/heaters/even a fully...

Yeah, of course, they do have a lot of shrimp in, CRS, CBS, bumblebee, red nosed plus orange and green variations of the cherry (I think) etc. plus others. I guess they just come as one lot!

It's always the way, the best deals too far away! What amazed me was the guy was just "oh yeah, we got some other shrimp", and knew nothing about them.... i guess otherwise they would have been their normal price....

Problem is the shop is 45 mins away from me! I popped in on the way back from a work conference and I am away all weekend and then have to go to work all next week (no more conference trips) otherwise I'd consider it, I think I mentioned I am time poor! Sorry Paulo :( I'm around the following...

lol, you're not helping! Besides I am time poor at the mo and I would be very worried about spending the money and them all dying due to lack of time. :oops:

Yeah, I am gutted, I have just got rid of some tanks to save some money (and make some room!) The temptation to set one up especially is big but I MUST RESIST :twisted: I just hope they go to someone who knows what to do with them!

I was in Maidenhead Southampton today and they had some of the Cardinal Sulawesi shrimps for £5 for 2! Yep you saw that right, they were labelled with some other name but are unmistakeable and looked great, my eyes nearly fell out me head when I saw the price too, the guy selling didn't know...