Place selling healthy harlequin shrimp

Hi guys,

Would like to check if anyone here knows of a place that contantly stocks up or recently seen Halequin shrimps sold and that the shrimps are in good health? It will help if rough location can be given also =D

Appreciate any help as its abit hard to find that species in hougang area and that going down to C328 twice without them stocking up is quite frustrating.

You may want to try Y934. They have it sometimes but no guarantee they have it all the time though

[nasty12]

u can try going dwn to C328 on Wed nights of thurs as their stock usually comes in on wed afternoon. Went dwn today saw a few harlequin(4-5)

bro, perhaps u can give them a call b4 gg down...
their tel quite easy to find here or online

[silane]

You all sure the suggested place has the healthy harlquin shrimp???

My thought is the healthy harlquin are still in the lake. They dont do well in bags and in tanks.

[Xmant]

You can place an order with the lfs, and they can inform you once the stock is in.

I read online that this type of shrimp is not freshwater and they feed on STARFISH
correct me if i'm wrong...

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. Appreciate it. Was hoping for a few shops that specialise more in shrimps that might sell it. Main reason for me is that that if a stock of harlequin shrimps that has just arrived and without properly letting it stable first (at the shop) and purchasing it would result in high mortality due to its fragility.

Second reason is that personally I felt that Harlequin shrimps prefer a slightly different conditions as from Cardinal Shrimps (I've kept both of them before and had minor experience in them). And also not adding to the fact that some shops keep them in a normal pH/kH/gH conditions.

As for Natsuboku, sorry that I did not give the scientific name earlier, I was refering to the freshwater type named Caridina cf.spongicola. They are quite different from the one you have read =D

Originally Posted by ameyaiba

Hi all,

Second reason is that personally I felt that Harlequin shrimps prefer a slightly different conditions as from Cardinal Shrimps (I've kept both of them before and had minor experience in them). And also not adding to the fact that some shops keep them in a normal pH/kH/gH conditions.

Hi just curious how are they different in terms of water parameters? Thanks

Originally Posted by Aria

Hi just curious how are they different in terms of water parameters? Thanks

Hi,

First I believe I should give the background of the sulawesi shrimp state before I purchase it.
The shop keeper state that he kept it in normal pH/gH/kH as all his fishes and shrimps.

The first batch of sulawesi I bought was a mixture of some harlequin and cardinal shrimps. I gradually adapted them to pH 8.0 with kH around 5 over a 2-3 days timing. However, after I introduced them to my main tank, a fair amount of harlequin shrimps died, however all the cardinals are alive and stable.

After around a few days, I decided to lower the pH down to around 7.7 and kH slightly lower (cant exactly remember). Cardinals started dying while all harlequin become stable for minimum of 1-2 weeks. Only when I decided to raise the pH and kH back to the recommended levels, harlequins started dying again (to none).

Therefore, personally I have this hunch that either harlequin shrimps prefer slightly lower kH and pH as recommended for cardinals. I would'nt say this information is totally reliable as this observation is only from 1 batch of sulawesi shrimps and does not conclude anything.