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Livestock: Caridina Simoni Simoni Rare Dwarf Shrimp
Quantity for sale: 10 (+2)
Reason for Sale: so others can enjoy
Delivery or Collection: Both
Sales price: £25
Postage & Packaging: £7.50 royal mail next day special delivery
Location: London, SE4 2JH
Payment: Paypal only. Please PM to arrange transaction.
This shrimp is from Sri Lanka originally and has a beautiful natural coloration, especially when berried. It also has a number of unusual characteristics;
1. This shrimp will absolutely not interbreed with any other shrimp species kept in the hobby, and therefore can be added to tanks with any Caridina, Neocaridina, or Sulawesi species without fear.
2. It has an attractive humped back, which is more common on marine/brackish shrimps than freshwater ones. Females also become more beautiful the older they get, see photos.
3. Although they are very active, constantly swimming and eating, they consistently like to rest upside-down under bits of over-hanging driftwood in the shade, which is fun to see.
4. They are very social and like to feed in strange groups. See youtube video here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgkznO1CDfY&feature=relmfu)
5. Apparently it has a brief larval stage, but these larvae must be sedentary as I have never seen them in the water-column (or otherwise), and my shrimps have no trouble breeding in tanks with a filter that doesn’t have a panty-hose mesh over it (I tried this in the beginning out of fear but was too much work to keep clean).
6. This shrimp is 100% impervious to summer heat. I kept them in my tanks over the summer without a fan and on at least a couple of occasions one tank reached 34C (this is not a typo), and on both occasions all shrimps were fine. On one of these occasions I had extremely small newborn baby shrimplets (~3mm) in this tank and all of them appeared to survive. On both occasions none of the berried females lost their eggs. I know all of this because the tank in question is very small (8liters) and so I can see all the shrimp in it. Although most of the moss in this tank died, the shrimp were fine. They are a tropical shrimp and so like high temps, but I have some breeding in 22C right now as well. I have read that if you keep them at that temperature they start to breed more slowly, but I have not noticed any difference.
7. This shrimp is easier to keep than cherries. I have kept them for 17 months now, and they live ~16 months. Even without water changes for months this shrimp will not show signs of stress and keeps on breeding. I even kept one in a 2liter bowl on the windowsill in direct summer sun with no filter and a few floating plants for 4 months and it was fine (I think this bowl reached >34C but I did not have a thermometer back then), even when all the snails I kept it with died while I was on vacation (presumably due to overheating). It is said that they do better in soft acid water at least 25C, but they will breed well in everything in my experience. However like other shrimp, this shrimp will still suffer (and die) if you try to acclimatize them too quickly to different water parameters (I made this mistake so you don’t have to, heh).
I keep mine at 22-28C (most of the time), 6.5Ph, 6Kh, in 8,12, and 20 liter tanks. They breed in all three of these tanks. Limited quantities. Selling 10 (+2) shipped royal mail next day special delivery for 32.50 pounds and picked-up for 25 pounds from London SE4 2JH. I accept paypal. Please PM me if interested. All photos are my own.
Quantity for sale: 10 (+2)
Reason for Sale: so others can enjoy
Delivery or Collection: Both
Sales price: £25
Postage & Packaging: £7.50 royal mail next day special delivery
Location: London, SE4 2JH
Payment: Paypal only. Please PM to arrange transaction.
This shrimp is from Sri Lanka originally and has a beautiful natural coloration, especially when berried. It also has a number of unusual characteristics;
1. This shrimp will absolutely not interbreed with any other shrimp species kept in the hobby, and therefore can be added to tanks with any Caridina, Neocaridina, or Sulawesi species without fear.
2. It has an attractive humped back, which is more common on marine/brackish shrimps than freshwater ones. Females also become more beautiful the older they get, see photos.
3. Although they are very active, constantly swimming and eating, they consistently like to rest upside-down under bits of over-hanging driftwood in the shade, which is fun to see.
4. They are very social and like to feed in strange groups. See youtube video here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgkznO1CDfY&feature=relmfu)
5. Apparently it has a brief larval stage, but these larvae must be sedentary as I have never seen them in the water-column (or otherwise), and my shrimps have no trouble breeding in tanks with a filter that doesn’t have a panty-hose mesh over it (I tried this in the beginning out of fear but was too much work to keep clean).
6. This shrimp is 100% impervious to summer heat. I kept them in my tanks over the summer without a fan and on at least a couple of occasions one tank reached 34C (this is not a typo), and on both occasions all shrimps were fine. On one of these occasions I had extremely small newborn baby shrimplets (~3mm) in this tank and all of them appeared to survive. On both occasions none of the berried females lost their eggs. I know all of this because the tank in question is very small (8liters) and so I can see all the shrimp in it. Although most of the moss in this tank died, the shrimp were fine. They are a tropical shrimp and so like high temps, but I have some breeding in 22C right now as well. I have read that if you keep them at that temperature they start to breed more slowly, but I have not noticed any difference.
7. This shrimp is easier to keep than cherries. I have kept them for 17 months now, and they live ~16 months. Even without water changes for months this shrimp will not show signs of stress and keeps on breeding. I even kept one in a 2liter bowl on the windowsill in direct summer sun with no filter and a few floating plants for 4 months and it was fine (I think this bowl reached >34C but I did not have a thermometer back then), even when all the snails I kept it with died while I was on vacation (presumably due to overheating). It is said that they do better in soft acid water at least 25C, but they will breed well in everything in my experience. However like other shrimp, this shrimp will still suffer (and die) if you try to acclimatize them too quickly to different water parameters (I made this mistake so you don’t have to, heh).
I keep mine at 22-28C (most of the time), 6.5Ph, 6Kh, in 8,12, and 20 liter tanks. They breed in all three of these tanks. Limited quantities. Selling 10 (+2) shipped royal mail next day special delivery for 32.50 pounds and picked-up for 25 pounds from London SE4 2JH. I accept paypal. Please PM me if interested. All photos are my own.
