Caridina longidigita in Lake Poso
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2025
- Lake Poso is one of the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island. It is home to several dozen endemic species of fish and invertebrates, including 9 species of shrimps that do not occur anywhere else in the world.
Caridina longidigita is one of them. Its scientific name means "long-fingered" and it's no accident - watch how it grabs food with lightning speed with its fingers! This species is very rare in aquariums.
Sulawesi Keepers connect aquarists, scientists, conservation organisations, and local communities in an effort to prevent extinction.
Amazing!!
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Video's like these really help a lot to understand how these wonderfull animals live and how their environment is like. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Peter. We plan to publish more portraits of shrimps. But none are as breathtaking to observe as Caridina longidigita :-)
Awesome creatures. We have to do our best to help them survive.
Sir, are there any beginner alternatives to Sulawesi freshwater shrimps? I want something with unique vibrant colors and unique behaviors and non-Neocaridina with vibrant colors? I'm always reading your article about how difficult the Sulawesi shrimps are, and I felt insulted as a beginner. I wish that alternative existed.
Every experienced breeder started as a beginner, and there is no cheat - just start with the easier species, you will enjoy the hobby and grow your own experience. Why don't you consider Neocaridina as an easy alternative? There are many Neocaridina with nice colors. Or Caridina logemanni and similar, these are already somehow challenging if you want to breed them, but definitely very nice shrimps. Just start easy now and you will be experienced in no time.
Thanks for sharing this video. Love this channel!
Thank you very much!
Man there are Tylomelania snails everywhere! 😊
Yes there are :-)! And most of them still undescribed species. We published an overview of them on our blog: sulawesikeepers.org/snails-of-lake-poso/
Great! I am keeping sulawesi shrimps now. Does the rocks there supply required minerals for shrimps?
Shrimps obtain minerals from food and water. If you are asking whether the necessary minerals are released from the stones into the water, it is not that simple. Not many substances are soluble at such a high pH. In short: it is not enough just to put the right stones in the aquarium...
How about general hardness?
It is very tricky to work with GH values in Sulawesi lakes. It will not tell you enough about Ca:Mg. So we consider conductivity to be just as useful as the basic indicator. Of course, the detailed water analysis is way better, and we are working on it ;-)