Keeping crawfish in a 20g high

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powellmacaque

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I think I would like to keep crayfish in my 20g high.

I would also like plants, and perhaps multiple species/specimens.

The only crawfish available to me are blue "lobsters," white "lobsters," and feeder reddish brown crawfish at my local lfs.

If anybody could tell me how to keep the most interesting crawfish tank that would be appreciated, I know 20g tall is a little cramped for some crawfish but I want to do this project the right way.
 
I think the "lobster" crayfish are likely to go after plants and fish. With a high tank it might work with fast top level fish. Endlers or guppies or danios would be my choices. Floating plants or Java Moss should work, but rooted plants are not likely to stay that way if they aren't eaten our right.

You might want to look at a dwarf crayfish like CPOs or red-claw shrimp. They are shrimp, but they are more craygfish like in appearance.
 
Lol crawfish are not poisonous to fish thats rediculous. They can eat/attack fish and add to bioload so might have caused ur parameters to go out of wack. Please dont say things like this with out actually knowing the truth (do some research) and not an assumption

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powellmacaque said:
I think I would like to keep crayfish in my 20g high.

I would also like plants, and perhaps multiple species/specimens.

The only crawfish available to me are blue "lobsters," white "lobsters," and feeder reddish brown crawfish at my local lfs.

If anybody could tell me how to keep the most interesting crawfish tank that would be appreciated, I know 20g tall is a little cramped for some crawfish but I want to do this project the right way.
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I have a blue lobster crayfish in a 20g high. I think it works out okay for the crayfish, but I sort of want to not have it anymore. It's a bit boring. I had kept it for a couple of years in a 20 long with no fish, afraid it would attack any fish I added. So I moved it to a 20 high and bought a handful of feeder guppies. So far the guppies have reproduced and a few have disappeared. So I guess the thing is eating them sometimes. I've never seen it go after them, though, as it stays in a cave whenever there's light. When I had it in the 20 long I didn't really have enough cave area for it, so it moved around during the day.

So I think it will work for you. If I trusted my self to ship it I'd send you mine.
 
So I went ahead and bought a $1 crawfish. It's brownish red, about 1.5" long. I've got a bit of an underdog tendency, so I couldn't see myself paying $10-30 for a "pretty" crawfish when the $1 ones were just sitting on death row waiting to be bait.

Here's a dumb question: can I keep snails and shrimp with crawfish? What about another crawfish? Right now my tank looks rather bare with just the one crawfish so I'd like to add some activity if possible. Also what about banana plants? I'm looking to keep it North America/cool water themed, so any plants/inverts/fish that could go well in a 20g high with my cray would be cool.
 
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