Public research library · Source-linked and plainly qualified
This is the public reading room behind the active, planned, actively researched, and build-ready programmes at Introverted Invertebrates. Each source is linked directly and paired with a plain-language note explaining what it informs—and what it does not prove.
Evidence before certainty
The two practitioner records remain visible because they preserve rare captive observations. They sit in their own category and never close a design question by themselves.
01 · Active systems
These animals are not future acquisitions. The research helps interpret what is observed in the active programme and keeps the next decision accountable to more than habit or anecdote.
Neocaridina davidi
These papers support the biological foundation shared by the four active colour lines: temperature restraint, continuous biofilm, and dependable early-juvenile nutrition. They do not define the programme’s private selection thresholds.
Baliña et al. · The Biological Bulletin · 2018
High temperature suppressed ovarian maturation and spawning and affected egg-quality measures. It supports protecting long-term female condition instead of chasing faster reproduction with heat.
Open DOIViau et al. · Aquaculture Research · 2020
The species completed its life cycle in a biofilm-based system, and suitable biofilm-bearing substrates improved juvenile survival, biomass, and energy reserves.
Open publisher pagePantaleão et al. · Journal of Crustacean Biology · 2015
The earliest juvenile stage was less resistant to food deprivation than a later juvenile stage. It reinforces uninterrupted access to fine natural food and mature grazing surfaces.
Open DOICaridina multidentata
The adult lines are operating now; the marine larval pathway remains active research inside that programme. These sources define credible experimental controls for broodstock temperature, larval salinity, and first foods without turning small-vessel results into mass-culture promises.
Hamasaki et al. · Crustacean Research · 2020
Live Tetraselmis with rotifers produced the strongest tested path to juveniles for Amano larvae. It is a laboratory positive control—not a forecast for survival in a larger shared vessel.
Read open articleKondo, Hamasaki & Dan · Crustacean Research · 2021
Temperature and salinity produced species-specific survival and development responses. The study provides an experimental envelope for Amano larvae rather than one universal ‘correct’ salinity.
Read open articleOhara et al. · Aquatic Animals · 2024
Adult temperature changed reproductive output; the warmest treatment reduced Amano hatching success and the number of newly hatched larvae. Broodstock conditions are part of larval-system design.
Read open article02 · Planned brackish systems
One provenance-tracked system per species is planned at lower priority. Founder animals have not arrived, and neither system has entered construction or stocking.
Halocaridina rubra
One provenance-tracked adult system is planned at lower priority. The literature establishes the species’ anchialine biology, salinity physiology, larval ecology, and unusually strong population structure; the system has not entered construction or stocking.
Havird et al. · The Biological Bulletin · 2015
Five years of laboratory colony records and salinity trials showed lineage and seasonal differences in reproduction and much poorer larval settlement near freshwater than in brackish or seawater.
Open DOIHavird, Henry & Santos · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2014
The species tolerated and regulated across an exceptional salinity range in laboratory transfers. That explains anchialine resilience; it is not permission to subject a captive colony to needless swings.
Read open articleSantos · Molecular Ecology · 2006
Populations showed strong genetic subdivision and restricted gene flow over surprisingly short distances. It gives real biological weight to provenance records and keeping source lines separate.
Open DOIMarrack & Beavers · PLOS ONE · 2023
Shrimp tissue nitrogen isotopes tracked nutrient pollution across anchialine pools. The work connects captive stewardship to the ecological sensitivity and monitoring value of the wild species.
Read open articlePetShrimp · practitioner reference
A long-running captive-care reference useful for comparing husbandry observations with the formal literature. It can suggest practices; it cannot prove a biological requirement by itself.
Open husbandry referenceMetabetaeus lohena
One provenance-tracked adult system is planned at lower priority, and the larval protocol remains experimental. Strong field ecology and population work define the habitat; the system has not entered construction or stocking.
Russ, Santos & Muir · Revista de Biología Tropical · 2010
The weak population structure across the species’ range is consistent with effective marine dispersal. It supports a marine larval hypothesis, not a finished larval-rearing recipe.
Open indexed recordPeck, Nash & Camp · Pacific Science / USGS · 2024
A 130-pool field study found the strongest density relationships with invasive fish and Halocaridina rubra. It is valuable habitat and community context, not a captive stocking-density rule.
Read USGS recordNatureServe Explorer · living conservation record
A conservation-oriented cross-check for accepted identity, distribution, and anchialine habitat records. It is used for natural-history context rather than a husbandry prescription.
Open species accountPetShrimp discussion archive · 2016
Keepers documented adults becoming berried alongside repeated difficulty feeding and retaining larvae. The failures identify testable questions; they do not establish a successful method.
Open discussion record03 · Culture starter stock
Five refrigerated bottles document material available for a future setup. They do not prove viability, production volume, contamination control, or a completed culture start.
Tetraselmis sp.
Five opened 250 mL starter bottles were refrigerated and shaken on September 7, but no production culture has been established. These references anchor strain identity and medium preparation; bottle viability, F/2 arrival, growth rate, contamination control, and remote resilience remain unverified.
UTEX Culture Collection of Algae · University of Texas at Austin
Provides a traceable reference strain, its identity history, and conservative long-term maintenance conditions. UTEX explicitly warns that maintenance settings are not automatically optimal for mass production.
Open strain recordUTEX Culture Collection of Algae · University of Texas at Austin
A reproducible university culture-collection recipe for enriched seawater medium, including stock additions, sterilization, vitamins, storage, and pH cautions. It is a medium reference—not proof of the best recipe for every strain.
Open medium recipe04 · Actively Researching
These programmes have earned focused research time, but not a build commitment. Their open questions stay visible until species identity, full life cycle, feeding ecology, and serviceability are strong enough to act on.
Caridina cantonensis · identity gate remains
The current evidence strongly challenges the hobby’s common Caridina serrata label. The programme will keep the trade name qualified until the actual founder stock and provenance are checked rather than assuming every seller is carrying the same animal.
Klotz & von Rintelen · Zootaxa · 2014
Formal taxonomic work on the closely related ornamental Caridina complex provides the comparison framework and shows why trade labels cannot be accepted as species proof.
Open indexed recordNIADE · Andy Pierce · 2025, updated 2026
This synthesis connects the published taxonomy with direct responses from shrimp taxonomists, including morphological and 16S evidence. It resolves the likely hobby identity while leaving seller-stock verification necessary.
Read expert synthesisAtyopsis moluccensis · Atyopsis spinipes
The two accepted Atyopsis species are being treated as separate programmes. The strongest evidence already shows that their larval salinity responses differ, while habitat work supports a flow-and-perch adult system rather than a generic community-tank assumption.
Hamasaki, Tanaka & Dan · Hydrobiologia · 2024
Atyopsis moluccensis and A. spinipes showed materially different larval salinity and temperature responses. The two species cannot honestly inherit one shared larval recipe.
Open DOITanaka, Hamasaki & Dan · Crustacean Research · 2023
Rotifers materially improved survival and development; live-food combinations and vessel volume both mattered. It supplies a laboratory positive control for future scale-up work.
Read open articleTanaka, Hamasaki & Dan · Crustacean Research · 2024
Juvenile performance declined sharply below the mid-teens Celsius in a controlled cooling test. It defines a cold-risk boundary, not an adult husbandry target.
Read open articleIwata et al. · Journal of Tropical Ecology · 2003
Wild Atyopsis moluccensis were associated with relatively high water velocity and boulder substrate. That makes usable current and stable filter-feeding perches central adult-design questions.
Open publisher pageWorld Register of Marine Species · living taxonomic record
WoRMS recognizes Atyopsis moluccensis and Atyopsis spinipes as the two accepted species in the genus. It is the taxonomic control behind listing both bamboo shrimp separately.
Open taxon recordBrachionus sp. · strain not yet selected
Their role as first prey is supported; the production system is not finalized. The next gates are strain selection, density measurement, contamination control, crash recovery, and proving that the culture can remain useful through the real service interval.
Lavens & Sorgeloos, eds. · FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 361 · 1996
A detailed hatchery reference for salinity, temperature, oxygen, pH, ammonia, bacteria, ciliates, stock cultures, scaling, and harvest. Its strongest systems lesson is to isolate backup stock from production crashes.
Read FAO rotifer chapterPinij Kungvankij · FAO/UNDP Field Document 2 · 1988
An older but useful systems-level guide covering prey selection, phytoplankton growth, culture succession, and rotifer production. It supplies fundamentals, not a modern species-specific operating procedure.
Read FAO field guidePublic boundary
This page explains what the work is grounded in. It deliberately does not publish private room details, exact build specifications, internal trial controls, supplier records, or unfinished house methods.
A paper can support a question without proving the final system. A natural tolerance range is not an automatic care target. A laboratory result is not a mass-culture promise. Those distinctions remain part of the work.