Future programme atlas
This atlas records the selected breeding and research collections, their organizing logic, and their readiness. Geography leads where locality shapes the system; life cycle, feeding ecology, and shared culture infrastructure lead where biology creates the stronger design rule.
The organizing method
The page first answers where the system belongs, then why the animals belong together. Selection state and delivery readiness stay separate so a chosen species is never misread as a scheduled build.
Freshwater, brackish, tropical marine, or Eastern Canada / North Atlantic.
Lake, region, water platform, life cycle, feeding guild, or support function.
Named target with provenance and taxonomic uncertainty shown honestly.
Current foundation, planned, researching, deferred, or still open.
Selection state
Delivery state
Freshwater shrimp
The four current Neocaridina lines establish the neutral-water foundation. Warm/hard and cool/soft lines sit beside them as distinct water platforms. Three Sulawesi collections stay lake-specific, while amphidromous and fan-feeding shrimp are organized around their specialist biology.
Each lake supplies its own husbandry, provenance, and founder-locality context.
Sulawesi · Lake Poso
Five shrimp form one lake-specific programme. Water, hardscape, provenance, and sourcing will be designed around the documented conditions and founder localities of Lake Poso.
Sulawesi · Lake Towuti
Five shrimp form the Lake Towuti programme. Founder locality, water chemistry, and species identity define the collection and its eventual system design.
Sulawesi · Lake Matano
Five Lake Matano shrimp form a distinct programme. Documented founder locality and species identity are required before animals enter the collection.
Three water platforms keep current breeding lines and future directions visible in the same freshwater spectrum.
Neutral freshwater · current foundation
Four Neocaridina davidi colour lines are already operating as the room's neutral-water breeding foundation. Additional lines can be added individually as the programme grows.
South & Southeast Asian trade lines
A five-line programme organized around compatible warm, mineral-rich freshwater systems. Trade identities remain qualified until founder provenance supports a firmer name.
Cool / soft freshwater
Three individual Caridina lines define the present cool, soft-water direction. Each remains a standalone future line while the broader collection develops.
Shared life-cycle or feeding requirements define the systems used for these specialist collections.
Freshwater adults · marine larvae
Five shrimp united by a cross-salinity life cycle. Their adult systems remain freshwater programmes; the marine larval pipeline is shared infrastructure.
This collection is organized by life cycle. Fan-feeding shrimp have their own collection because their adult feeding ecology creates a different system-design problem.
Flow-fed specialists
Five specialist filter feeders grouped by the adult system problem: usable current, suspended food, secure perches, refuges, and a realistic larval pathway.
Freshwater snails
Assassin and white-spotted rabbit snails have Rack 2 assignments. Wizard, Malaysian trumpet, and piano snails are selected colonies awaiting system assignments.
Fresh / neutral water
Five dedicated colonies form the selected neutral-water snail programme. Assassin and white-spotted rabbit snails have Rack 2 assignments; the other three await system assignments.
Rack 2 is reserved for the assassin snail and white-spotted rabbit snail groups. System assignments for the other three colonies will be recorded when decided.
Brackish & anchialine
Opae ula and Alpha Opae each have a dedicated, provenance-tracked system concept. Red cave shrimp, Lauan anchialine shrimp, and Palaemon debilis complete the selected research portfolio.
Brackish & anchialine
Five shrimp span brackish and anchialine habitats. Opae ula and Alpha Opae have the most developed system concepts; the other three are sourcing- and evidence-led research programmes.
The current system concept provides one provenance-tracked system for Opae ula and one for Alpha Opae. The remaining species are selected research programmes without assigned builds.
Marine programmes
Tropical marine and Eastern Canada / North Atlantic are separate regional programmes. Each holds a five-shrimp collection and a five-snail collection built around its own temperature, habitat, and sourcing requirements.
Ten selected species, with actual regional ranges retained inside the broader tropical operating platform.
Tropical marine
Five ornamental shrimp form the tropical marine programme. Each species keeps its documented regional range within a shared warm-marine operating platform.
Tropical marine
Five tropical marine snails provide grazing, crevice-foraging, sand-sifting, scavenging, and larger benthic roles across the proposed collection.
The five selections cover grazing, crevice-foraging, sand-sifting, scavenging, and larger benthic roles within the tropical marine platform.
Ten selected regional species built around cold, oxygen-rich seawater, lawful sourcing, and locality records.
Eastern Canada / North Atlantic
Five shrimp define a separate Eastern Canada / Northwest Atlantic programme. The collection requires a genuinely cold, oxygen-rich marine platform and lawful, locality-documented sourcing.
Selection does not authorize collection or purchase. Canadian regulations, collection locality, seasonal temperature, and source provenance remain release gates.
Eastern Canada / North Atlantic
Five regional snails form the cold-marine counterpart to the shrimp collection. Direct development or brooding is favoured where it improves the odds of closing the life cycle in captivity.
The regional label does not imply one collection site. Founder locality, thermal history, and legal acquisition route must be recorded for every line.
Live-culture foundation
Four phytoplankton and six zooplankton or micro-live-food cultures form the complete starting programme. The leech system remains a separate curiosity and observation tank.
Freshwater support
Two phytoplankton lines and three zooplankton or micro-live-food lines. Each becomes active only when a viable operating culture is recorded.
Marine & larval support
The marine half of the ten-culture programme supports amphidromous larvae, marine research, and future production with a defined set of live-food tools.
Programme governance
Selection is not scheduling. A place in a five-species collection records long-range direction. It does not claim that founders are sourced, tanks are available, or a build date exists.
Locality outranks resemblance. Sulawesi collections stay lake-specific, and regional marine work stays attached to real geography and provenance.
Biology can create a shared platform. Amphidromous and fan-feeding shrimp are grouped around repeatable system problems while their regional identities stay attached to each species.
Support systems remain visible. Cultures, larval systems, and companion communities are documented as infrastructure—not counted as animal breeding programmes unless that decision is made.
Every build still has to earn release. Husbandry evidence, legal sourcing, welfare, four-day serviceability, space, and a truthful production or observation purpose all come before acquisition.
Read the evidence standard