Skittles Mix

Bred in Adelaide. Posted express every Monday and Tuesday. Guaranteed to arrive alive.

Posted Monday Your order can still go in this box until 8pm Adelaide time the night before ·
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Skittles Mix

Neocaridina davidi

Mixed colours, and you do not get to pick. The cheapest shrimp we sell, and the fastest way to fill a tank.

Tap water is fine Tap water with a conditioner (it takes out the chlorine). Add minerals if your tap water is very soft. Water & care →

These breed with each other. Over a year or two the babies drift back to plain brown. Buy them for colour now, not to breed a colour. Why →

$2.90 each other shops $3.50

10 delivered $58.99 · $5.90 each with postage
30 delivered $116.99. $3.90 each. Post is still $29.99

Sold in packs of 10. One box, one postage.

What it is

Mixed colours, and you do not get to pick. The cheapest shrimp we sell, and the fastest way to fill a tank. Sold under the name Neocaridina davidi.

What water does it need?

Tap water with a conditioner (it takes out the chlorine) suits these across most of Australia. They breed on their own. One thing to know: Melbourne and some Sydney supplies are very soft, which means very few minerals in the water. GH is the general hardness reading on a test kit (not the KH reading). Below about 4 dGH, a shrimp has trouble hardening its new shell after a moult (when it sheds its shell to grow). If that is your water, add shrimp minerals (sold as a remineraliser, a powder that puts minerals back in) or leave a piece of cuttlebone in the tank. Both are cheap. It is the difference between a group that grows and one that quietly does not. Steady water matters far more than perfect water.

In the table: pH is how acid or alkaline the water is. GH is the minerals in the water. KH is the part that holds pH steady. TDS is everything in the water added up.

pH6.5 – 7.8
GH (hardness)6 – 12 dGH
KH (carbonate)2 – 8 dKH
TDS (total minerals)150 – 250 ppm
Temperature18 – 26 °C

The full story, including cycling your tank, copper and which fish are safe, is on the water & care page. Read it before you order, not after.

Will they breed? Can I mix them?

They breed easily once they settle in. Ten will have babies within a couple of months.

These breed with each other. They are all Neocaridina, so every colour crosses with every other. Over a year or two the babies drift back to plain brown, like a wild shrimp. Buy them for colour now, not to breed a colour. If you want babies that keep their colour, pick one colour from the Neocaridina list instead.

What does it cost delivered?

$2.90 a shrimp. We sell them in packs of 10. One foam express box costs the same to send whether it holds 10 shrimp or thirty. So 10 delivered is $58.99. That is $5.90 each with postage in. The same $29.99 post carries a bigger box too. It drops to $9.99 once your shrimp come to $149. So the more you order, the less each shrimp costs. Everything goes out on a Monday or a Tuesday, packed that morning. Every shrimp is guaranteed to arrive alive. The guarantee is short, and it says what it does not cover.

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