Keeping caridina shrimp may seem complicated and hard to do but in reality, it is pretty easy and most people who have kept neocaridinas will most likely have success with caridina shrimp.
The first step in keeping caridina shrimp is to figure out your water parameters, and if they work for you typically you can keep caridina outside of the recommended range, especially crystal red shrimp. For instance, we keep our caridina shrimp in a PH of 7.2-7.4 and have been doing so long term for about 2 years now with no issues, but if you really want to breed Taiwan bees, you should follow a set of parameters most shrimp farms that we buy from, depending on the type of caridina shrimp use the following parameters pH 6.5-6.9, TDS 100-140, GH 4-5, KH 0-2 Temperature 75F or 24C.
The main thing to focus on with caridina shrimp is consistent parameters with no huge swing in PH or anything else. Truthfully, that is the most important thing with keeping them. For most people in America, your water out of the tap is a decent starting point for us in Akron, Ohio. We can keep caridina and neocaridina straight out of the tap as long as you do not have well water or super hard or super soft water you should have success with these shrimp, and you most likely only need to make minor adjustments, typically using a buffering substrate such as Fluval stratum and ADA Amazonia. There are also many brands of caridina shrimp-specific substrates that work really well.
