Caridina spongicola

[joydiv]

Hi

Would like to know what are your experience in keeping them and how long you have managed to keep these alive.

Thanks

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb218/joydiv_sg/Sulawesi%20Shrimps/spongicola.jpg

[chungck]

If you want to start with sulawesi shrimps....don't even try to buy these spicies,
they are hard to keep......

Died in a couple weeks......

Its better to begin with the Cardinals.....easy to keep and they breed as well....

I start with 10 of these and after 10 months....I think there are about 60 maybe more ...of them now......

[joydiv]

White spot... no longer a challenge...

would like to know anyone who is able to keep alive the spongicola for at least 2 months and hopefully we can all share on how to maintain them.

If all the hobbyist fail then it could simply mean that this species is better left in the lake.

So anyone?
Keep strictly to Caridina spongicola aka Halequin aka celebes beauty

Thanks

[Refael_Hdr]

The longest time I've succeeded keeping them is 2-3 monthes. I'm intending to try again in a special tank dedicated to them only...

[joydiv]

Thanks. Anyone esle.
It will be most helpful if you try to fill in the following:

GH
TDS
pH
KH
Temp
Additive
Substrate
Survival rate

Below is the infomation of my latest attempt. Started with 10

GH - 4
TDS - 160
pH - 8.0 - 8.5
KH - NA
Temp - 26 - 29
Additive - NONE
Substrate - silica, river and lake sand
Survival rate - 70% in the first 2 weeks
week 3 - 60%
Week 4 - 50%

[Refael_Hdr]

Gladly,

The water parameters were:
KH 3.0
GH 5.0
pH 7.8
mS 280
Temp. 27 C

Substarte: ADA Amazonia
Additive: MOSURA Mineral Plus, Coral chips
Survival Rate: 50% after 1-2 weeks that lasted for 2 more monthes
Extra aeration.

I would like to know about others experiences too...

[Refael_Hdr]

Here is a picture from my tank at that time:

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9784/sulawesi6ub3.jpg

[joydiv]

According to the latest paper, this species is not C spongicola but C woltereckae

[Refael_Hdr]

According to the latest paper, this species is not C spongicola but C woltereckae

What is the differences between the species?
Can you direct me to this paper?

Thanks

[joydiv]

see my post on Sulawesi shrimps described. Apparently C spongicola is not as big or as colourful as what we are keeping now. It is also found only in a small area of Lake Towuti whereas C. woltereckae is widespread and a rock dweller.

[billb]

Does it make sense to also look at what is being fed? Many of these species share similar habitats - rocky areas in the Malili lake system. With the level of speciation in the lakes, I wonder if they feed on different things. The recent paper that JoyDiv posted showed that C. woltereckae is genetically related to C. spongicola and an analysis of gut content (spongicola) showed they fed on diatoms. Diatoms are cultured for aquaculture and for biofuels. I wonder if this could be used to supplement the biofilm in our tanks. commercial efforts to culture diatoms add sodium metasilicate to the culture media to encourage growth.

What are people feeding their C. woltereckae?

[labutes77]

hi people !
i start on this forum just today , and i saw a few posts with mistaken names of two species of sulawesi shrimps.


the shrimp we all have been called spongicula is actually caridina woltereckae.

so the dificulty in having them in aquarium is not relatead with the sponge ... but possibly with the food . i only have woltereckae for two weeks , but i feed them with powder spirulina. let´s hope ...