Neocaridina "Yellow Fire" Yellow Prawn

Neocaridina Yellow Fire Token

• Scientific name: Neocaridina davidi Bouvier, 1904
• Common name: Prawn Yellow Fire Yellow
• Difficulty level: Easy, suitable for beginners
• Color: Bright red, some females with a lighter back line
• Life expectancy: 18 to 24 months
• Water parameters: GH 3 to 30, KH 3 to 30, pH 6.5 to 8.5, temperature 5 to 30 ° C
• Aquarium size: From 20 liters, recommended more than 30 liters
• Reproduction: Easy, after four to six weeks, 20 to 40 young are born
• Behavior: Pacific, can live with small fish, crabs, other prawns, crabs, and snails

Characteristics of the Yellow Fire Prawns

The yellow fire prawn is not only beautiful, but also extremely useful. Prefers to graze on algae and other biofilms. It eats food scraps and dead plant parts and therefore functions as a health protector in the aquarium cleaning equipment. In addition to all this natural food, the animals are also grateful for a special shrimp food, and they also like to eat a suitable protein food, which should be given twice a week. Otherwise, they prefer foods with predominantly plant components, but the brown autumn leaves as a permanent food are also often grazed and eventually eaten.

As a peaceful group of animals, the yellow fire prawn can coexist well with other aquarium inhabitants, including peaceful small fish, dwarf and large crabs, freshwater crabs, clams, and snails. An initial series of 10 to 20 prawns is recommended Yellow Fire. If you want to keep them together with other types or colors of gamuts, you should inform yourself in advance about the requirements for water values ​​and make sure they are stored at least similarly. It can be mixed with other species and colors of the Neocaridina genus.

La Yellow Fire it is very easy to breed. The female may carry 20 to 40 bright yellow eggs from which fully developed young hatch after three to four weeks. A separate breeding tank is not necessary because the animals do not stalk their young. If you keep the prawns Yellow Fire In a community pool, you should definitely offer hiding places for your newborn shrimp in the form of moss or other delicate plants.