Quick care card
Use this card as a starting point. Always check whether your aquarium is stable enough for sensitive species.
Difficulty
Easy
Behavior
Grazes surfaces and uses shelter.
Feeding
Suitable added food and grazing space; follow juveniles too.
Breeding
Freshwater offspring described, without a fixed yield guarantee.
Best match
Keepers interested in following origin, water preparation and offspring
Important
A pale body or trade name alone does not identify a species. Do not confuse White Pearl with the white Caridina trade form Snow White.
Care in practice
Christian Splettstößer describes his own White Pearl husbandry at pH 7.4-7.8, KH 7 and 20-26 °C. This is one husbandry system, not proven safe minimum and maximum limits. Compare the actual stock and entire water system; measure GH too and assess water quality. Do not fill missing values from another colour form’s standard table. Suitable tap water may work; RO is not automatically required.
Establish functioning biological filtration, protected intakes and plants or other accessible grazing and shelter surfaces. Choose space for the planned colony and maintenance. Waiting a fixed number of weeks does not establish filtration. A feeding and observation area helps locate pale animals without removing shelter.
Check uptake of suitable shrimp food and whether juveniles reach food. Biofilm and moss do not demonstrate a complete or sufficient diet. Adjust additions to numbers, growth, uptake and leftovers; remove decay without stripping all grazing surfaces simultaneously.
Fish may eat juvenile shrimp. A separate group simplifies following this strain. Consulted hobby sources differ in certainty about crosses with other Neocaridina. Do not present mixing as guaranteeing either true colour or wild-type offspring. Keep unknown strains separate when line preservation matters.
The practical source describes the author’s freshwater offspring, including whiter and less white juveniles in the same group. White eggs under the abdomen fit White Pearl; the saddle behind the head differs from carried eggs. Record animals actually hatched and growing rather than promising a fixed number or exact incubation period.
Background and identification
Understanding the name
The older label Neocaridina cf. zhangjiajiensis still appears in hobby writing. Both Ulli Bauer and Christian Splettstößer now use N. palmata for White Pearl. This is the trade form’s identification in those sources, not microscopic confirmation of an offered batch by ShrimpCent.
Look for a whitish translucent body and conspicuous white eggs in females. Not every colourless shrimp is White Pearl. Wild N. palmata is variable, not necessarily white.
Read shrimp aquarium preparation; for an opaque white Caridina, first compare the Snow White profile.
Sources and review
Sources for accepted names, classification and synonyms.
- Ulli Bauer: Neocaridina palmata
Hobby identification of White Pearl with N. palmata and distinction requiring microscopic characters; direct freshwater development. Broad hobby ranges, compulsory supplements and all-genus crossing claims are not adopted.
- Christian Splettstößer: White Pearl & Blue Pearl
First-person keeping and breeding account, own photographs and reported naming history. pH 7.4-7.8, KH 7 and 20-26 C are this keeper’s setup. They do not define the species’ tolerance limits. No universal hybridisation or competition outcome adopted.
Sources for water values, temperature and stable care.
- Christian Splettstößer: White Pearl & Blue Pearl
First-person keeping and breeding account, own photographs and reported naming history. pH 7.4-7.8, KH 7 and 20-26 C are this keeper’s setup. They do not define the species’ tolerance limits. No universal hybridisation or competition outcome adopted.
Practical sources for setup, feeding, behavior and breeding.
- Christian Splettstößer: White Pearl & Blue Pearl
First-person keeping and breeding account, own photographs and reported naming history. pH 7.4-7.8, KH 7 and 20-26 C are this keeper’s setup. They do not define the species’ tolerance limits. No universal hybridisation or competition outcome adopted.
- LICG: Zoetwatergarnaal
General freshwater shrimp care; broad guidance is not a species-specific diagnosis.
- UF/IFAS: Ammonia in Aquatic Systems
Nitrogen chemistry and biological filtration; fish thresholds are not used as shrimp thresholds.