Description
The yellow nose shrimp is recognised by its rostrum — the 'nose' — of intense yellow over a translucent body. It is a Caridina endemic to Lake Towuti in Sulawesi, and like the other shrimp from those lakes it cannot cope with community tank water.
Its needs are nothing like a Neocaridina's: it wants water that is warm, alkaline and soft all at once, a combination tap water almost never provides, and absolute stability. It accepts no tank mates that cannot share those parameters, and there are very few.
It breeds in fresh water if conditions are right, with fully formed young.
Habitat
It is endemic to Lake Towuti in Sulawesi, where it lives on rocks and stony bottoms in clear, warm, alkaline, low-hardness water.
Keeping it takes RO water remineralised with salts made for Sulawesi shrimp, porous rock, high and stable temperature, and no fish.
🌊 Water parameters
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Compatible fish
General guidance based on water parameters, behaviour and known exceptions; always review the individual animals' and aquarium's specific needs.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–30 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–30 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
Compatible invertebrates
General guidance based on water parameters, behaviour and known exceptions; always review the individual animals' and aquarium's specific needs.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8.5 and 27–30 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8.2 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8.5 and 27–30 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C.
They share water: pH 7.5–8 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
They share water: pH 7.5–8.5 and 27–28 °C. They only meet at the very edge, so the tank has to hold that value.
Sources
- GBIFGBIF Secretariat (2026). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei. Consultado vía GBIF.org, 2026-08. Caridina spinata.
Taxonomy verified as ACCEPTED unless stated otherwise.
The care values (pH, temperature and hardness) have no citable source: none of the accepted sources publishes invertebrate profiles. Seriously Fish has none and PlanetCatfish does not respond. A source for invertebrates is still to be agreed.