What do you feed your Dwarf Crays?

[jamesstill84]

What do you feed your Dwarf Crays? Someone in another forum mentioned feeding them live food.

I have Cambarellus Shufeldtii and they eat anything from snail jello to snails.

I'd like to hear what everyone else feeds them. :dance:

[DoctaQ]

i just fed mine spinach yday they didnt really go crazy over it

they do love aquamagic

[jamesstill84]

Have you ever tried live food? I don't know of too much other than maybe an earthworm or something that they could successfully catch and consume...

[Yadokari]

I have fed them lobster bites in the past, when I got a free sample. They didn't go crazy for those too much.

I tried tubifex worms. They do okay, not so crazy about it. They'll eat them but I find that the tubifex get away faster than some of the crays can find them.

I've done forzen bloodworms, which do okay.

The best out of all the foods I tried would be freshly crushed snails. I have a little cup that holds a bunch of live pond/ram snails and I just scoop out a few, crush em and dump em into the tank. My CPOs go crazy for em. Not exactly "live" but it's very fresh.

[jamesstill84]

I accidentally crushed a couple pond snails and they fell in the tank. The crays went nuts! Would you ever use a fresh earth worm from your backyard?

[black_sun]

Mine enjoy live blackworms, they wrestle with them and slurp them down like spaghetti. ^_^

[Yadokari]

I accidentally crushed a couple pond snails and they fell in the tank. The crays went nuts! Would you ever use a fresh earth worm from your backyard?

I probably would if I had the time and if I wasn't lazy. Although, I would assume that the nutritional value they get from earthworms collected outside isn't really worth my time and effort of having to hunt for em and then cutting it up. Also risks possible chemicals on the worms from yard work.

Snails are easier to cultivate and they pop out of nowhere for me all the time. So it's much more convenient and they love it. :dance:
As long as my crays get a mixture of food (snails, frozen bloodworms, dead shrimp, dead fish), then I'm happy with the variety they get. I hope they are too :)
I love my crays, but not enough for me to spend my time in the backyard trying to dig up earthworms when I could be out of the house.

[jamesstill84]

I would probably take the time to dig them up cause I love doing anything with my tanks, but I don't think I would use them because of the risk of contamination. Plus, earth worms smell horrible when they die and get wet (had a snapping turtle that deliberately did that).