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Peaceful but sensitive.
Peaceful but sensitive. Needs stable, warm, hard water; pairs well with other Sulawesi shrimp.
Powdered food, biofilm and mineral foods.
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Females are larger than males and have a deeper carapace; berried females carry dark-red eggs under the abdomen.
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Berried livebearer-style (free-swimming shrimplets) ·
Breeds in fresh water in the aquarium: eggs are large and the young hatch as miniature shrimp with no larval stage. Breeding is slow and juvenile survival is often low; stable water and plenty of biofilm are key.
Keep 10-15; breeding happens in stable warm hard water.
30-40 L tank with alkaline, mineral-rich water (pH 7.8-8.5, GH 6-8, KH 3-5), 28-30 C, rocks and caves.
Stable hot hard water; avoid water change shock.
About 8-15 large eggs per brood (wild females 8-14; aquarium 10-15). Incubation time not well documented.
Tiny adults; graze on biofilm and powdered food.
A red shrimp with white spots and bright white claws ("gloves") from Lake Matano, Sulawesi, described in 2009 and named after the German company Dennerle, which supported the expedition. It needs warm, alkaline, very stable water unlike most aquarium shrimp.
Kristina von Rintelen and Yixiong Cai described this shrimp in 2009. It lives only in Lake Matano, an ancient lake in Sulawesi. Its red body with white spots makes it highly sought after.
First described by Kristina von Rintelen & Yixiong Cai in 2009. Named for Named after the German aquarium company Dennerle.
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Invertebrate: freshwater atyid shrimp (decapod crustacean). Described 2009 by von Rintelen & Cai. WoRMS flags it freshwater-only.
WoRMS/DecaNet: Caridina dennerli von Rintelen & Cai, 2009New value (legacy had none).
WoRMS/DecaNet: Caridina dennerliTotal body length. The describing paper gives carapace length only (1.5-3.4 mm), not total length.
Wikipedia: Caridina dennerli · The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli)82-86 °F = 27.8-30 °C, rounded 28-30. Wild lake 27-31 °C. Garnelio gives 27-30 °C.
The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli) · von Rintelen & Cai 2009, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452 (revision of Sulawesi ancient-lake Caridina)Aquarium range from The Shrimp Farm; the lake itself measured pH 7.4.
The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli) · von Rintelen & Cai 2009, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452 (revision of Sulawesi ancient-lake Caridina)New value (legacy had none). Same source gives KH 3-5 and conductivity 180-220 µS/cm. Legacy breeding.setup text already said GH 6-8.
The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli)15 US gal x 3.785 = 57 L (20 gal = 76 L). The general Sulawesi guide allows 10 gal (38 L) minimum. Legacy 30 L is below both.
The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli) · The Shrimp Farm: The Ultimate Sulawesi Shrimp Care GuideFigure is for Sulawesi lake shrimp as a group, not C. dennerli specifically. Legacy 2 years sits at the low end.
The Shrimp Farm: The Ultimate Sulawesi Shrimp Care GuideGroup-level statement for Sulawesi shrimp.
The Shrimp Farm: The Ultimate Sulawesi Shrimp Care GuideRock-dwelling grazer.
von Rintelen & Cai 2009, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452 (revision of Sulawesi ancient-lake Caridina)Legacy 3 = hardest level. Among Sulawesi species it is one of the easier ones.
The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli)New value. Legacy "about" text wrongly says Lake Towuti; the species is from Lake Matano. Wikipedia extinct-in-wild claim cites the IUCN assessment (von Rintelen 2018).
von Rintelen & Cai 2009, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452 (revision of Sulawesi ancient-lake Caridina) · Wikipedia: Caridina dennerliDirect development (freshwater, no brackish larvae), so it can breed in a home tank. Garnelio also says the young are fully developed (German: "Die Jungtiere sind voll entwickelter Direktnachwuchs").
The Shrimp Farm: The Ultimate Sulawesi Shrimp Care Guide · The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli)Legacy 5-30 eggs is wider than any source; the ~4-week incubation could not be confirmed.
von Rintelen & Cai 2009, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452 (revision of Sulawesi ancient-lake Caridina) · The Shrimp Farm: Cardinal shrimp Care (Caridina dennerli) · The Shrimp Farm: The Ultimate Sulawesi Shrimp Care GuideCorrected lake (Matano, not Towuti). Quote in the second source keeps the PDF ligature text as extracted.
von Rintelen & Cai 2009, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452 (revision of Sulawesi ancient-lake Caridina) · Wikipedia: Caridina dennerli