Alright, I'm setting up a 55 gallon tank next week.
After some careful thought, I'm gonna make it a peaceful community tank. With a school of neon tetra's, and whatever else looks pretty at the store I go to. Nothing aggressive.
So, animals other than fish amuze me greatly, and I really want to get some Ghost shrimp, Snails (white mystery snails, i think) and crab(s) or crayfish. A store around me carries red-clawed freshwater crabs (2 normal sized claws). Now, will these crabs eat the snals or the shrimp? The store says the crabs only grow to 2.25'' accross, and they have small claws. And also on ebay I saw some crayfish that in the auction it says they are aquarium bred, and raised with minnows, and don't attack them, so they're "peaceful" crayfish, they grow to about 6'' long.
Would it be okay to keep some ghost shrimp, a few crabs (or a couple crayfish), and a few snails in the same tank with no one eating each other, and not harming small neon tetra's?
And i've heard that freshwater crabs need to have a place to get some air (like a plant that pokes out of the water), but in the petstore, they had like 20 crabs in a tank with no visible access, so do you think its neccisary.
After some careful thought, I'm gonna make it a peaceful community tank. With a school of neon tetra's, and whatever else looks pretty at the store I go to. Nothing aggressive.
So, animals other than fish amuze me greatly, and I really want to get some Ghost shrimp, Snails (white mystery snails, i think) and crab(s) or crayfish. A store around me carries red-clawed freshwater crabs (2 normal sized claws). Now, will these crabs eat the snals or the shrimp? The store says the crabs only grow to 2.25'' accross, and they have small claws. And also on ebay I saw some crayfish that in the auction it says they are aquarium bred, and raised with minnows, and don't attack them, so they're "peaceful" crayfish, they grow to about 6'' long.
Would it be okay to keep some ghost shrimp, a few crabs (or a couple crayfish), and a few snails in the same tank with no one eating each other, and not harming small neon tetra's?
And i've heard that freshwater crabs need to have a place to get some air (like a plant that pokes out of the water), but in the petstore, they had like 20 crabs in a tank with no visible access, so do you think its neccisary.