Shrimps in Sulawesi

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:36 pm

Hi all

Mustafa posted pixs of these a while ago. (Could not find the thread

)
Here are some links

http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/bejc/index.php?e ... itzler.txt
http://budak.blogs.com/the_annotated_bu ... _sula.html

TKD

GunmetalBlue · Post by **GunmetalBlue** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:00 pm

Hey TKD, thanks for the links. It might be, you couldn't find the thread because these were posted in a different forum? If Mustafa posted these links recently, I unfortunately don't recall it. However, I do recall this in another forum.

-GB

Post by **Mustafa** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:49 pm

Thanks for the links TKD. I have exchanged some emails with Kristina Zitzler before and she had sent me some amazing pictures of some of the shrimp living in the Sulawesi lakes.

GB, he did mean this forum. Do a search on "Sulawesi" in this forum. Then go to the second page of the thread "shrimp from china." (yes, I know sulawesi is not in china, but that was the name of the thread

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I posted links to some amazing pictures of one of the species from sulawesi in that thread. Really breathtaking.

Ah, what the heck, here are the pictures again

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Just amazing!

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:58 pm

Hi all,

I'm guessing that since they are land locked there babies have an abbreviated planktonic stage or are borne as miniature adults.

If that is true how easy are they to breed in a lab setting and /or home aquarium?

She does not say in the papers.

TKD

theshrimp_123 · Post by **theshrimp_123** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:10 pm

Wow they look like saltwater shrimp. Do you think they will ever be availible to the hobbyist?

frugalfish · Post by **frugalfish** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:57 pm

That is a beautiful shrimp!

Wow!

Post by **Mustafa** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:26 am

TKD wrote:Hi all,

I'm guessing that since they are land locked there babies have an abbreviated planktonic stage or are borne as miniature adults.

If that is true how easy are they to breed in a lab setting and /or home aquarium?

She does not say in the papers.

TKD

From the link you posted it sounds like they have medium size eggs and abbreviated larval stages without the need for saltwater for development.

The main problem with these shrimp seems to be that they need very high oxygen levels and stable temperatures (similar to some cichlids from lake tanganyika that I used to breed). Scientists are not breeders so although Kristina says that they would be very hard to breed, I would not mind trying my hands at breeding these shrimp. I am pretty confident that I can do it actually, as long as I can manage to imitate the water parameters of their habitats.

In any case, it would need a special expedition to Sulawesi to get these shrimp since I know some exporters of aquarium animals tried catching and sending them overseas and they all perished (another reason to try to breed them so animal dealers don't kill off the wild populations trying to make money off of them.)

Do you have any of the papers Kristina wrote, since you are talking about her "papers?" If so, I would not mind taking a look at those.

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:36 am

Hi Mustafa,

I was referring to the websites, sorry about the confusion.

Even animals that were though the be "impossible to breed" are now being breed. Like you say they have not really tried.

TKD

Lotus · Post by **Lotus** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:22 pm

Those sure are some beautiful shrimp. It would be awesome if they could live in average tank conditions.