ohmygosh, I never knew shrimp & crayfish were so pretty!

AnnetteG

AnnetteG

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I can see this quickly becoming an addiction. I've been looking up shrimp and crayfish and those little blue lobsters on aquabid and on the classifieds on here and my heart is actually racing a little bit and I feel all excited. LOL :y220d: I don't know what it is about these little ocean going cockroaches, but they've won me over. Little cuties. :hearts::drool::nilly::lol2:

Tell me more about these guys, what do I need to know? I've only got the two small tanks right now, but I've got a 29 gal. to set up and we're planning on either getting a 55 or 75 for Christmas. Depending on budget and what I can find on craigslist. Hubby is wanting to put some oscars in one tank, I'm trying to convince him to go with discus instead, can you keep shrimp or crayfish with oscars or discus? Also, can shrimp and crayfish be kept together?
 
okay, so I'll be sure to keep shrimps in one tank and a crayfish in another. What about cory cats, can they be in a tank with them? I have one little bitty cory right now and was thinking of getting another one. I have lots of hiding places in the tank they'd be in - 2 caves and lots of fake plants and rocks/corals.
 
I have shrimp in with my cories and their fine together. They pretty much ignore each other. Oscars would definetly eat shrimp. Probably Discus too.
 
shrimp are the bottom of a food web everone eats them in nature, the brighter they are the more a fish will want to take a chunk out of them.

A shrimp tank is ONLY a shrimp tank unless you have a fully grown goaliath african filter feeder.
 
oooohhh, so lots more studying before I buy a crayfish. Little cuties though, I will have to have one eventually, even if they have to have their own tank. :-D

I'm going to order some RCS from mgamer and put in my 10g tank and move them to my 55 (or maybe 75!) peaceful tank I'll be getting between now and christmas! I only want small pretty fish that won't eat each other, so I'll be very careful and do my homework before I buy any additional fish. I have a couple of ghost shrimp in my 10 gal. right now and no one is bothering with them. They do have lots of hiding places though, so that probably helps.

It's my husband who's obsessed with oscars, but I'm letting him get a lizard, so he can just forget it! :raspberry:
 
There's some dwarf crays on aquabid, they'll be good with anything (Well, maybe not fry) ;)
 
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