i live by a river that is loaded with crayfish if i was to put a baby crayfish in a tank how could i care for it(what does it eat, can it be in deep water,will it harm my fish?,etc.) any help is always appreciated!
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Sinking pellet food, the ideal one for the smaller crayfish is betta food, the larger one maybe chiclid pellets, somthing with alot of protine
I agree...I have heard horror stories of crayfish clearing out tanks fairly quickly. They can be vicious predators in a peaceful tank...be careful!
thank you all for the replies i guess im just gonna nix the whole idea because i dont want anything to harm my cichlids and i dont want a tank with nothing but crayfish perhaps later
Yeah, crayfish can kill a lot. I had a bucket with 2 minnows in it for fishing and I put a crayfish in it and I came back half an hour later and the minnows were gone!
graphic,
Your Shark hasn't taken out the crayfish while it's molting? That's how I've lost two crays. Once by a small 5" African knife and once by a 3 maybe 4" bullhead (native tank) but each time the fish got the cray while it was molting. I haven't lost fish to the crays but then again I never tried keeping them with small fish.
Lokis,
you should also nix the thought of a tank of multiple crayfish...unless you like watching your own "clash of the titans" they are territorial and your bound to lose claws and eventually have a fatality.
Your Shark hasn't taken out the crayfish while it's molting? That's how I've lost two crays. Once by a small 5" African knife and once by a 3 maybe 4" bullhead (native tank) but each time the fish got the cray while it was molting. I haven't lost fish to the crays but then again I never tried keeping them with small fish.
Lokis,
you should also nix the thought of a tank of multiple crayfish...unless you like watching your own "clash of the titans" they are territorial and your bound to lose claws and eventually have a fatality.
My cray has a cave nothing else can go in (there's an air rock in there so the crayfish can hide easily past the bubbles. Also have a huge barnacle cluster (just the shells of course), half controlled by the cray and half by the crab, they occupy those typically right after molt, and I think they "eat" some of the calcium shell of the barnacles to harden up quickly (I've noticed the barnacle weakening when I take it out to clean it too). Also have a couple of empty moon snail shells in there deteriorating for likely the same reason?