#Sulawesi shrimp

[megaten-and-other-polls]

Shrimp Tournament: THE FINAL POLL

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

It's December 7th, open the advent calendar!

It's a Sulawesi blue ghost shrimp! It will keep you company. Enjoy!

[endangered-aquarium-fish]

the list!!!

every creature that's endangered or critically endangered or extinct in the wild that you can keep and breed in your own (freshwater) aquarium to stop it from dying out completely.

ive been working on this for a while and its still very not done bc oh my god theres so many-

some of these are super duper rare and expensive but others are widely beloved fish, some of them are rlly surprising to see here

pls lmk if theres anything i should add that i havent yet :3 theres a lot of undescribed species that you dont find in databases and stuff so i need all the obsessed nerds i can find to finish this!!!

not bolded = endangered

bolded = critically endangered

red = extinct in the wild (THESE LITERALLY ONLY EXIST WHERE WE KEEP THEM 0.0)

okay here it is :3

Allodontichthys polylepis - Finescale splitfin

Allotoca catarinae - Catarina allotoca

Allotoca dugesii - Bumblebee goodeid, Opal allotoca

Allotoca goslinei - Banded allotoca

Allotoca maculata - Blackspot goodeid, Blackspot allotoca

Allotoca meeki - Zirahuen allotoca

Allotoca zacapuensis - Zacapu allotoca

Amatitlania kanna - Panama convict cichlid

Amatitlania myrnae - Topaz cichlid

Ambystoma mexicanum - Axolotl

Ameca splendens - Butterfly goodeid

Amphilophus chancho

Amphilophus flaveolus

Amphilophus lyonsi

Amphilophus zaliosus - Arrow cichlid

Apistogramma lineata  

Apistogramma psammophila - two banded dwarf cichlid 

Aponogeton capuronii 

Aponogeton longiplumulosus

Astatotilapia desfontainii

Ataeniobius toweri - Striped goodeid

Aulonocara baenschi - Nkhomo-benga peacock, yellow benga, sunshine peacock

Aulonocara kandeense - Blue orchid peacock

Aulonocara maylandi - Sulfurhead peacock

Bedotia geayi - Madagascar rainbowfish, red-tailed silverside, zona

Bedotia madagascariensis - Madagascar rainbow, Madagascan rainbowfish

Benitochromis conjunctus

Benitochromis finleyi

Benitochromis nigrodorsalis

Benitochromis riomuniensis

Betta albimarginata - Whiteseam fighter

Betta antoni

Betta sp. “api api” - Api api betta

Betta burdigala

Betta channoides - Snakehead betta

Betta chloropharynx - Green throat mouthbrooder

Betta compuncta

Betta cracens

Betta foerschi

Betta hendra

Betta hipposideros

Betta sp. “jade” - Jade betta

Betta livida

Betta mahachaiensis - Mahachai betta

Betta mandor

Betta miniopinna

Betta omega

Betta pardalotos

Betta patoti - Tiger betta

Betta persephone

Betta pi

Betta rubra - Toba betta

Betta rutilans - Fire betta

Betta schalleri 

Betta simplex - Krabi mouthbrooding betta

Betta smaragdina “guitar”

Betta spilotogena

Betta stiktos 

Betta tussyae - Chukai betta

Betta waseri

Brevibora dorsiocellata - Emerald eye rasbora, eyespot rasbora

Cambarellus patzcuarensis - Mexican dwarf crayfish

Caridina dennerli - Cardinal Sulawesi shrimp

Caridina glaubrechti - Red orchid Sulawesi shrimp, red orchid shrimp

Caridina holthuisi - Six banded Sulawesi shrimp

Caridina loehae - Mini blue bee shrimp, orange delight shrimp

Caridina masapi - Towuti tiger shrimp

Caridina profundicola - Sunstripe shrimp

Caridina spinata - Yellow goldflake shrimp, yellow nose shrimp, yellow cheek shrimp

Caridina spongicola

Caridina striata - Red line shrimp

Caridina tenuirostris 

Caridina tigri - Tigris sulawesi shrimp

Caridina woltereckae - Sulawesi harlequin shrimp

Chapalichthys pardalis - Polkadot splitfin

Characodon audax - Bold characodon

Characodon lateralis - Rainbow goodeid, Rainbow characodon

Chilatherina bleheri - Blehers rainbowfish

Chilatherina sentaniensis - Sentani rainbowfish

Chindongo saulosi

Coelotilapia joka

Coptodon bythobates

Coptodon deckerti

Coptodon gutturosus

Coptodon kottae

Coptodon snyderae

Cyprinodon alvarezi - Potosi pupfish

Crenichthys baileyi - White River springfish

Cribroheros bussingi

Cribroheros rhytisma

Danio/Celestichthys erythromicron - Emerald dwarf rasbora

Devario auropurpureus/Inlecypris auropurpurea - Lake Inle danio

Devario pathirana - Barred danio

Dicrossus gladicauda

Epalzeorhynchos bicolor - Redtail shark/red tailed shark

Etroplus canarensis - Canara pearlspot

Gambusia hurtadoi - Crescent gambusia

Girardinichthys multiradiatus - Dark-edged splitfin

Girardinichthys viviparus - Chapultepec splitfin

Glossolepis dorityi - Doritys rainbowfish, Grime rainbowfish

Glossolepis incisus - Red rainbowfish

Glossolepis maculosus - Spotted rainbowfish

Glossolepis wanamensis - Lake Wanam rainbowfish, emerald rainbowfish, green dragon rainbowfish

Gymnogeophagus caaguazuensis

Halocaridina rubra - ‘Opae‘ula

Haplochromis brownae

Haplochromis ishmaeli

Haplochromis latifasciatus - Zebra obliquidens

Haplochromis perrieri

Hemichromis cerasogaster

Herichthys bartoni - Bartons cichlid

Herichthys labridens - Curve-bar cichlid

Herichthys minckleyi - Minckleys cichlid

Herichthys steindachneri - Steindachners cichlid

Hubbsina turneri - Highland splitfin

Hypancistrus zebra - Zebra pleco

Hyphessobrycon flammeus - Flame tetra 

Kiunga ballochi - Glass blue eye

Konia eisentrauti - Konye

Lamprologus kungweensis - Ocellated shell dweller

Limbochromis robertsi 

Limia islai - Tiger limia

Limia nigrofasciata - Humpbacked limia, Black-barred limia

Limia sulphurophila - Sulphur limia

Lipochromis/Cleptochromis/Haplochromis parvidens

Luciocephalus aura - Peppermint pikehead

Malpulutta kretseri - Ornate paradisefish

Mchenga conophoros

Melanochromis chipokae

Melanochromis lepidiadaptes

Melanotaenia ajamaruensis - Ajamaru rainbowfish, Ajamaru lakes rainbowfish

Melanotaenia boesemani - Boesemani rainbowfish

Melanotaenia bowmani - Bowmans rainbowfish

Melanotaenia fasinensis

Melanotaenia gracilis - Slender rainbowfish

Melanotaenia klasioensis - Klasio Creek rainbowfish, Klasio rainbowfish

Melanotaenia lacustris - Turquoise rainbowfish, Lake Kutubu rainbowfish

Melanotaenia mairasi - Lake Furnusu rainbowfish

Melanotaenia parva - Lake Kurumoi rainbowfish, sunset dwarf rainbowfish

Melanotaenia sp. “Running River” - Running River rainbowfish

Melanotaenia sembrae

Melanotaenia sexlineata - Fly River rainbowfish

Melanotaenia susii - Susi Creek rainbowfish

Melanotaenia utcheensis - Utchee rainbowfish, Utchee Creek rainbowfish

Melanotaenia sp. “Williams Creek” - Malanda gold rainbowfish, Williams Creek rainbowfish

Mesoheros gephyrus

Metriaclima koningsi

Metriaclima usisyae

Microrasbora rubescens - Red dwarf rasbora

Myaka myaka - Myaka

Nandopsis ramsdeni

Nannostomus mortenthaleri - Coral red pencilfish

Nanochromis transvestitus

Neoophorus regalis

Neotoca bilineata - Twoline skiffia

Nyassachromis boadzulu

Oreochromis alcalicus - Soda cichlid, common natron tilapia

Osphronemus laticlavius - Giant red tail gourami

Parananochromis ornatus

Paretroplus dambabe

Paretroplus maculatus - Damba mipentina

Paretroplus menarambo - Pinstripe damba

Paretroplus nourissati

Parosphromenus alfredi 

Parosphromenus anjunganensis

Parosphromenus filamentosus

Parosphromenus gunawani

Parosphromenus harveyi

Parosphromenus linkei

Parosphromenus opallios

Parosphromenus ornaticauda

Parosphromenus pahuensis

Parosphromenus paludicola

Parosphromenus phoenicurus

Parosphromenus quindecim

Parosphromenus rubrimontis

Parosphromenus tweediei

Phallichthys quadripunctatus - Four spotted toothcarp, four spotted merry widow

Placidochromis phenochilus

Poropanchax/Congopanchax myersi - Hummingbird lampeye

Pseudomugil connieae - Popondetta blue eye

Pseudomugil furcatus - Forktail blue eye

Pseudomugil ivantsoffi - Ivantsoffs blue eye

Pseudomugil luminatus - Red neon blue eye

Pseudomugil mellis - Honey blue eye

Pseudotropheus cyaneorhabdos - Maingano cichlid

Ptychochromis insolitus - Mangarahara cichlid

Ptychochromis oligacanthus

Pungu maclareni - Pungu

Priapella olmecae - Olmec priapella

Quintana atrizona - Barred topminnow

Rocio spinosissima

Sahyadria/Dawkinsonia denisonii - Denison barb, red line torpedo barb, roseline shark

Sarotherodon caroli - Fissi

Sarotherodon knauerae

Sarotherodon linnellii - Blackfin tilapia

Sarotherodon lamprechti

Sarotherodon logbergeri - Keppe, keppi

Sarotherodon steinbachi - Kululu

Scleropages formosus - Asian arowana

Sewellia marmorata

Skiffia francesae - Golden skiffia

Skiffia lermae - Olive skiffia

Skiffia multipunctata - Spotted skiffia

Skiffia sp. “Sayula” - Sayula skiffia

Sphaerichthys vaillanti - Samurai gourami, vaillants chocolate gourami

Stomatepia mariae - Nsess

Stomatepia mongo - Mongo

Stomatepia pindu - Pindu

Tanichthys albiventris 

Tanichthys albonubes - White cloud mountain minnow, white cloud minnow

Tanichthys micagemmae - Vietnamese cardinal minnow, Vietnamese white cloud

Teleogramma brichardi

Tilapia guinasana - Otjikoto tilapia 

Trigonostigma somphongsi

Vieja hartwegi - Tailbar cichlid 

Xenoophorus captivus - Relict splitfin

Xenotoca doadrioi - San Marcos redtail splitfin, San Marcos redtail goodeid

Xenotoca eiseni - Redtail splitfin, Redtail goodeid

Xenotoca lyonsi - Tamazula redtail splitfin

Xenotoca melanosoma - Black splitfin

Xenotoca cf. melanosoma 

Xiphophorus andersi - Spiketail platyfish

Xiphophorus couchianus - Monterrey platyfish

Xiphophorus meyeri - Marbled swordtail

Zoogoneticus tequila - Tequila splitfin

[a-simple-shrimp]

Shrimp of the Day #41

Caridina Holthuisi

also known as Matano Tiger Shrimp, Six Banded Blue Bee Shrimp, Sulawesi Six-Banded-Shrimp, and Six-Banded Caridina.

[snototter]

A magnificent anemone shrimp (Ancylomenes magnificus) in Sulawesi, Indonesia

by Bernard Dupont

[kangals]

I'm sry work sucked ! Here's some random ass questions (that you don't have to answer all or any):

Do you have a piece of media that was your inspiration to become an artist?

Do you have an art style that you're jealous over that you feel you "can't" do?

Childhood pet that made you like, okay I *need* to have pets?

If you could have one exotic pet (like no worries of laws or practicality/ethics) what would it be?

Additionally, that question but fantasy?

If you could be a supernatural creature (vamp, werewolf, witch, etc.) What would you pick or what do you *think* you'd be?

💖❤️

these are such good questions!

1- not one particular piece of media that i can recall, but i was always SUPER into animation as a little kid, especially if it had animated animals - disney movies (especially lion king, my beloved), balto, even comic strips like calvin & hobbes, far side etc. as a child if i was not out otherwise occupied, i was drawing dogs and cats and horses and whatnot. just always been my default state.

2- i love styles that really utilize bright color and dramatic lighting contrast to create volume without lines - i feel like i over-rely on ink when i draw and i would love to be able to do more bold, painterly stuff. these are my favorites on deviantart, which i think are pretty representative of the stuff that catches my eye and makes my brain go "ooh pretty"

3- my childhood cat was a tuxedo named checkers who i got when i was 4, she had a very short tolerance for little kid bullshit but i loved her anyway :') she definitely gave me my love of sassy cats i think haha. my parents didn't want me to have a dog which made me determined for years until they finally relented, and we adopted a shaggy black aussie-collie-lab-chow-?? mix named dixie, who i loved very dearly. idk if she even actually was a herding dog, but i credit my love of herders to her.

4- sulawesi shrimp! i love their little white socks, they are super sensitive to how you keep them though and given that they're critically endangered i'd be too scared to try and accidentally kill them :< but, in a perfect world...

5- maybe cheating but i would love an arcanine

6- WEREWOLF BABYYYYY i adore werewolves i think their mythology is rad as hell. my "actual" creature would probably be something boring like a little slim goblin or smth but if i had the choice, i'm going Maximum Furry

[shrimp-milf]

okay so I’m just very excited about this. me being happy and rambling about stuff under the cut

I found+bought a MEGA PACK of shrimp stickers (the superpack from sugoicentral) and I am so fucking hype. They look so good and I can’t wait to get them and put them places!!! I wanna put my favorites on my laptop… definitely galaxy fishbone and sulawesi because holy FUCK I love those guys so much. And I was thinking of maybe putting some on my back window? or on my front window in my car. so I can see them all the time! I just am very excited by the idea of being surrounded by the impies wherever I am. It’s like they’re my friends! I might even come up with silly names for them. Like yeah this shrimp is named McNuggetFucker69 and I see him whenever I enter my car. This guy is Xx_MomLover808_xX and I see them whenever I open my laptop.

I guess I’m a lil worried that they’ll bleach, or at least get lighter from being rubbed a lot (specifically if I’d put it on my laptop’s palm rest). But they’re supposed to be vinyl UV resistant waterproof all that jazz.

Also I got a new desk for our office/workshop which is exciting! I wanna decorate it so badly. I miss having a work desk… I wanna put little pictures of things and people I hold close to my heart. I also have my eye on J Yang’s Shrimp Standee (like a little desk art) but I gotta space out my impulse buys lol.

Anyways I just love the impy!!! and I wanna appreciate them and just eeeeeeeeeee 🦐🦐🦐 the serotonin

[meanderful]

Lembeh Larking

From Raja Ampat, our adventures continued about 1.5 hours flight due west in the Lembeh Strait off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

The Life of (Relative) Luxury

After the basic nature of our setup in Raja Ampat, we fancied a slightly more luxurious way of life for the next part of our adventures—aka somewhere with a FLUSHING TOILET (oh the thrill!).

So we chose to stay in a small resort, which meant a private bungalow each, complete with ensuite and a gorgeous view of the bay from the balcony. The lush green surrounds were home to a myriad of butterfly and bird species and one morning we even saw a monitor lizard swimming across the bay. Importantly, we were also treated to a slew of amazing vegan meals each day—the endless, delicious ways tofu and tempeh can be prepared is truly astounding.

Photos Above: view from my bungalow balcony; the team; kayaking adventures; a little snake popped by to say hello

Diving the Lembeh Strait

Much like our accommodation, our diving was also a luxury experience—Helen and I had a sizable private boat with three able crewmen (the captain, first mate, and our dive guide Rinto) at our disposal the entire time.

The diving in Lembeh was very different from that in Raja Ampat. In Raja Ampat, although there were plenty of divers, there was little in the way of infrastructure on land, so you felt as though you were diving in the middle of nowhere, looking at bountiful reef ecosystems. In contrast, the Lembeh Strait is a slice of water between the industrial harbour town of Bitung and Lembeh island. It felt much more like diving in a man-made world both above and below the water—once we even moored up right next to two massive fishing vessels, plopped over the side of the boat, bobbed around on the surface (me having a mild panic attack and praying the boats had no plans to move any time soon) and slyly slunk below the waves. That dive started with the sound of a huge boat engine throbbing in our ears—vaguely like having a mild headache for the first 20 minutes of the dive. There was also the time we rolled backwards into the water from the diving boat, which reversed out of our eyeline to reveal a fishing vessel behind with around 20 men sat on deck smiling down at us. ‘Uh, hello!’ was, I believe, my nonplussed response.

Whilst Raja Ampat was reef diving, almost all of Lembeh was muck diving, which involves barely any coral reef—instead you descend to a rubbly or sandy bottom (invariably with an entire corner shops’ worth of manmade debris lying around too) and move in a slow zigzag movement, peering at the seabed for all manner of weird and wonderful creatures making this environment their home. The creatures there were masters of camouflage such that I have never seen. Everything looked like everything else. There were fish patterned like sand lying flat along the sandy bottom. Frogfish looking like coral. Even some of the nudibranches (a type of sea slug that are usually colourful blobs) have evolved to look like bog standard seagrass.

Some of the camouflaged creatures were, in my opinion, pushing their luck. Once, Rinto pointed out a tiny ball of orange fluff and declared this to be a shrimp. In fact, quite a few times Rinto would make the sign for shrimp and I would sigh and swim over to peer at a leaf, or grain of sand, and attempt to persuade myself it was a shrimp. On a dive towards the beginning of our experience, Helen called me over and kept enthusiastically pointing at a twig and asking me if I could see it. See what? A twig? With encouragement, I peered close until I could just about make out a snout and two eyes (if I squinted hard and really believed in it). A pipefish, apparently. Five minutes later on the same dive I excitedly gestured for Helen to come over and pointed sarcastically at an actual twig. When the sarcasm hit home, Helen collapsed into her first ever underwater giggle fit, which of course set me off laughing too—causing Rinto to look over in concern as we convulsed underwater (between giggles I was giving Rinto the ‘ok’ sign again and again to try and allay his suspicions that we might be suffering an attack of some sorts).

As well as ridiculous levels of banal camouflage, Lembeh Strait dished up some of the most amazingly weird creatures I’ve ever seen. High up on the list was just the head of an eel poking up out of the sand with its jaws open but locked down upon a juvenile cowfish (Helen said she could see the cowfish’s eye moving, but unfortunately, none of the rest of it). There was also a mimic octopus, whose short body and long elaborate tentacles changed colour and shape when we moved near. A blue-ringed octopus the size of my hand looked sandy coloured until we approached and then broke out with bright blue rings covering its entire body. We gently hovered our hands over it to see the blue rings and it was only upon returning to land (where Helen geeked out on the marine research from that day’s diving) that we discovered it was in fact highly venomous…

We saw cuttlefish galore, the smallest of which was half the size of my little fingernail but still glittering away enthusiastically. And on a night dive, a squid gave us an amazing shimmering show by torchlight—even hovering in front of Rinto’s torch so we could see through its translucent tentacles as it flashed at us and moved its tentacles in what can only be described as figure dancing.

Photos Above: surface interval on our (private!) dive boat; graceful sunbathing; keen beans; with the resort staff team!

Mandarinfish Mating

The Lembeh Strait is known as one of the few places to come to see the elusive mandarinfish mating at dusk. We twice caught this beautiful phenomenon. As the light started to fade, we sunk down next to a pier where mandarinfish are known to live.

Mandarinfish are famous as one of the most beautiful fish in the sea, and I can testify this to be the case. They are iridescent blue, green, and purple and covered in lines of shimmering bronze. If you know when and where to go, it’s relatively easy to catch them in their famous courtship ritual. The ritual involves a flamboyant male catching the eye of nearby females by opening up his beautiful shimmery dorsal fin. After sufficient time spent impressing the local females, the male gradually herds them into one area of the reef and then one by one picks out a female. He lines up next to her, connecting side by side so that she rests on his pectoral fin. They rise up together in a flurry of fins for a few seconds before abruptly darting back to the safety of the rock whilst at the same time releasing their eggs and sperm in a tiny puff, to be fertilized in the water column. We watched a large male do this four or five times with different females on each dive—it was pretty special to see.

Better than my description though, you can see mandarinfish mating in this short clip on youtube.

My Final Stopover

From Lembeh we flew to Jakarta, the capital city, a smooth journey apart from the fact the flight was delayed by the airline and then by myself as I almost lost my brand new phone—a feat which involved me running off and on the airplane twice in my search as well as all the airport staff hunting high and low around the gates in case I'd dropped it. It was, of course, in my rucksack the entire time. But in good news, one wonderfully helpful Indonesian airport employee now has an enthusiastic selfie of our relieved faces to remember this incident with.

Photo Above: WE FOUND MY PHONE

In Jakarta, Anto and Bodhy (two new friends we made in Raja Ampat) generously offered us the use of the spare bedrooms available in their houseshare. So we made ourselves at home in their Jakarta mansion (complete with pool) and set about enjoying the luxuries only cities can offer.

We explored Jakarta’s vegan food scene—including impressing our hosts with surprisingly excellent vegan pizza—went for massages, hunted out oatmilk coffees, and generally rested and restored ourselves ahead of the next leg of the trip.

My final night we went out for dinner, drinks, and a dance, enjoying an… eclectic mix of Western pop music in a Jakarta bar (which all the young Indonesians knew off by heart). The only downside was that the roads were empty enough that Sam never got to experience his dream—a taste of the the insane traffic that Jakarta is infamous for (Helen and I weren't exactly sad about this). Finally, it was time to split ways and so it was I bid adieu to Helen and Sam at Jakarta airport as they set off to their next destination in Sumatra and I headed back to sub-zero temperatures in the UK.

Photos Above: our Jakarta stopover; coffee time!; massage time!; out with new friends

[nunuisancenewt]

Having climbed up and down the ray fined fish taxonomy tree on wikipedia for awhile ( not the first time but retain more every time of-course) heres some notes

Over Two thirds of the worlds freshwater fish species are in Ostariophysi , and over a quarter of total species, the catfish ( very diverse) Cypriniformes ( carps and minnows, loaches, suckers, algae eaters , carp, etc) Characiformes ( a very diverse group of mostly latin american ( but some African) fish, tetras, piranhas , pacu etc) as well as knife-fish( including electric eel) and the milkfish and a few close freshwater cousincousins

Some catfish live in saltwater?

Cyprinids ( Carp + minnow… etc?) doesn’t look like its sorted and terminology is confusing, but loach is a proper group

Ricefish ( tiny fish associated with rice paddies) and buntingi ( tiny fish from the same Sulawesi lake as a-lot of the shrimp and snail species in aquariums) are in the same small group as flying fish and some other pelagic fish like halfbeaks and needlefish

The Salamander Fish, separated from other fish 240 million years ago, is found in only a tiny corner pf Australia, and is Endangered, it lives in small water pools and survives by digging in the sand and hibernating the dry season like lungfish

Killifish is slightly parapheletic, the group includes the ecologically similar pupfishes and split-fins, but also a more different group with the four eyed fish and the livebearers( guppies, mosquitofish etc)

Gouramis ( including bettas) and snakeheads are sister taxa, I assumed the primitive air breathing was convergent, it is with arapaima and lungfish and bichir)

Stomiiforms includes bristle mouth ( most numerous vertebrates genus) and dragonfish and marine hatchetfish and most of the sort of generic stereotypical “ deep sea ( mesopelagic not abyss)” deep sea fish, mostly long and noodley and bioluminescencent with big eyes and fangs

Tube Eyes feel like they belong in Stomiiforms but apparently are closest related to the cod/pollock/burbot etc clade

Switching between fresh and saltwater or the deep sea and the surface is like, no big deal, its not anything like the evolving flight or the ability to breath air, these switches happen constantly ( relatively speaking)

The Percomorpha, which includes like half of total species, didn’t start diversifying until around the K-Pg mass extinction , in particular this group includes alot of “ coral reef fish” ( damselfish( including clownfish) , marine angelfish ,marine butterfly fish, seahorses , goatfish, snappers, groupers, blennies, gobies, Sturgeon fish, triggerfish, mahi mahi, snappers, rabbitfish, wrasse, lion fish, stone fish, parrotfish, cow fish, pufferfish etc) apparently modern coral reefs didn’t form until the late cretaceous when the Rudist bivalves that were previously the main sessile organism in similar reefs went extinct

[aquariuminfobureau]

Strange orange bunnies from Lake Matano

Tylomelania gemmifera is one of the more popular ornamental species in the genus known as the rabbit snails. It is a strictly freshwater relative of the burrowing ceriths, that are often maintained in marine aquaria. Rabbit snails, like the unrelated sea hares, which are also gastropods, are so named for their having facial appendages, that charmingly resemble the ears of rabbits or hares. They are a viviparous genus, such a habit has evolved out of a tendency for the Asian freshwater cerithoids, to produce fewer but larger eggs, therefore investing more into the survival chances of each offspring. The shell of T. gemmifera is about 5 centimeters, or under 2 inches long. T. gemmifera is often traded as the golden or orange rabbit snail, names which reference its mantle coloration. I have also seen T. gemmifera traded as the giant rabbit snail, although it is not the largest of all Tylomelania species. All of the species in this curious genus, are native to the island of Sulawesi, and the lakes of the Maliki system are particularly famed for their high endemism and rich biodiversity. This diversity includes several species of rabbit snails, and other rabbit snail species inhabit other freshwaters of Sulawesi.

The parameters of Lake Matano, the Maliki lake where T. gemmifera itself originates, include a pH value from between around 8.5 up to 9.6, and quite high, stable temperatures of around 27 to 29 degrees centigrade. Feeding T. gemmifera and other rabbit snails is simple, because they will rasp such foods as sinking algae tablets, and blanched vegetables such as corguettes. Cerithoids are categorised as deposit feeders and microalgal grazers, lacking need for animal proteins. Generally this species of rabbit snail is considered safe for planted tanks, but sometimes Tylomelania sp. have been reported to nibble live growth sometimes in aquariums, avoiding resilient leaves like those of Cryptocoryne. Rabbit snails are known to have adapted to different niches in the lakes of Sulawesi. Different species of rabbit snail do have different food preferences, for this reason. These snails require a soft substrate as is sufficient to burrow themselves into, but it need not be too deep. Rabbit snails are not at all active predators, and they cannot seize or harm ornamental fish or shrimp.

[chaos-pit]

Looks a bit like a cross between red orchid and red line sulawesi shrimp!

One of my friends said this guy looks like a shrimp and now I can’t unsee it

(Apache degeeri, 7/31/2024)

[megaten-and-other-polls]

Shrimp Tournament: Round 1 Polls

You can find the bracket here and the schedule here

First Round of Polls:

Sulawesi Shrimp (Caridina Dennerli) VS Amano Shrimp (Caridina Multidentata)

Bamboo Shrimp (Atyopsis moluccensis) VS. Hawaiian Red Shrimp (Halocaridina Rubra)

Snapping Shrimp (Alpheus randalli) VS. Cherry Shrimp (Neocaridina Davidi)

Great Tiger Prawn (Penaeus monodon) VS. Sea Monkey (Artemia Salina)

Golden Coral Shrimp (Stenopus scutellatus) VS. Peacock Mantis Shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus)

Shadow Panda Shrimp (Caridina cf Cantonensis var Panda) VS. Pederson's Shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni)

Sexy Shrimp (Thor Amboinensis) VS. Zebra Mantis Shrimp (Lysiosquillina maculate)

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Аквариумни скариди Sulawesi shrimp

Аквариумни скариди Sulawesi: Изящество и Интрига във Вашия Аквариум

Аквариумното хоби предоставя уникалната възможност да създадете живописен подводен свят, пълен с разнообразие и красота. В света на аквариумните скариди, Sulawesi shrimp изпъкват като изключително красиви и интригуващи обитатели. В този артикул ще разгледаме как да отглеждаме и грижим за тези уникални скариди.

1. Въведение в Семейство Sulawesi:

Sulawesi shrimp произхождат от остров Сулавеси в Индонезия и са известни със своето ярко оцветяване и необичайната сила на адаптация към своите природни среди. Тези скариди са идеални за акваристи, които търсят нещо екзотично и различно.

2. Ярки Цветове и Видове Sulawesi:

Една от най-вълнуващите характеристики на Sulawesi shrimp са техните живописни цветове. От наситено червено и оранжево до транспарентно синьо и бяло, тези скариди предоставят цяла палитра от възможности за цветове. Някои от известните видове включват Cardinal, Red Orchid, и Harlequin Sulawesi shrimp.

3. Условия за Отглеждане:

Sulawesi shrimp изискват специфични условия за отглеждане, които трябва да се внимават внимателно. Те предпочитат по-високи температури, обикновено между 26°C и 30°C, и по-висок pH от около 7.5 до 8.5. Важно е също така да се поддържа стабилност на водните параметри, включително качеството на водата и уровня на минерализация.

4. Съвместимост с Други Обитатели:

Sulawesi shrimp могат да бъдат поставени в общ аквариум с други неагресивни риби и скариди с подобни изисквания за вода. Въпреки това, поради техните специфични нужди, е добре да се консултирате със специалист или да прегледате съвместимостта преди да добавите Sulawesi shrimp във вашия аквариум.

5. Хранене и Диета:

Sulawesi shrimp са филтърници и също така се хранят с алги и бактерии, които се намират във водата. Важно е да предоставяте подходящи добавки като специализирани скаридни храни, които съдържат необходимите хранителни вещества. Разнообразието в храната ще помогне за поддържане на тяхното здраве и цветове.

6. Размножаване и Грижи за Младежите:

Sulawesi shrimp могат да бъдат размножавани в аквариумни условия, но изискват специфични условия за успешно отглеждане на младежите. Женските скариди носят яйца, които се прикрепват към тяхното тяло. Грижата за младите изисква подходящи условия като поддържане на чиста вода и предоставяне на мекка подложка за развитие.

7. Профилактика и Здраве:

За да се поддържат Sulawesi shrimp здрави, е важно редовно да се извършва тестване на водата и поддържане на подходящите условия. Контролът на амоняк, нитрити и нитрати е от съществено значение. Те също така могат да бъдат чувствителни към промените във водата, затова е важно да се избягва стресът за тях.

8. Заключение:

Sulawesi shrimp представляват истински би��ута в света на аквариумистиката. Тяхната уникална красота и изисквания към условията ги правят подходящи за опитни акваристи, които се стремят към усъвършенстване на своите умения. Докато изискват повече внимание и грижи, Sulawesi shrimp със сигурност ще наградят своите собственици с едно невероятно зрелище от цветове и активност в аквариума. Добавете тези елегантни скариди към вашия воден свят и създайте удивително подводно обиталище, което ще ви радва и вдъхновява.

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Top five rimps I’d love to have some day

The red galaxy pinto (cardinia)

These guys look like little galaxies and are so gorgeous, the one in the photo is actually a fish bone red galaxy pinto, which is a rare pattern that can happen with these guys sometimes, where it looks like they have a fish bone in their pattern. The stark contrast between the bright white and deep red is wonderful

The purple King Kong (cardinia)

These shrimps often have a rare metallic like coating to them, which is caused by the water they live in, so they can become metallic or become matte depending on their environment. They’re also one of the few tricolour freshwater shrimps I’ve seen, with red, white, and purple markings on them

The cardinal sulawesi (Sulawesi)

These guys are really cool, they’re fairly new to the hobby, but becoming more and more common, in the wild they rely on snails to tell when it is safe to be out and eating, they are opposites to the cardinia family, as they require harder water

The blue bolt (cardinia)

These guys have a really cool ombré look to them, higher grade ones have less of an ombré which I don’t prefer, this one in the photo is berries (carrying eggs) which is the orange spots on its stomach. The fading colours make them look really neat in groups

The purple zebra shrimp (??)

These fellows are facinating little guys, they’re also fairly new to the trade and thus not much is known, unlike most species of shrimp, these guys require brackish (slightly salty) water to give birth in, though some people have had luck having them give viable birth in freshwater

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Shrimp of the Day #28

Caridina dennerli

also known as the White Socks shrimp, the White Gloves Red shrimp, the Sulawesi Cardinal shrimp, the Matano Blue Dot shrimp, the Cardinal shrimp, and the Blue Dot shrimp.