Your Experience with crayfish

They pinch and they are oppurtunists. Just because a minority of people haven't had problems (yet) doesn't mean the majority of the time it's a good idea to mix them with just anything.

I wouldn't keep them with anything that sleeps on the bottom, is slow or not big enough to make the crawfish think twice.
 
1. They eat anything they can catch.

2. Read #1 again, key word was 'catch' :shark:

3. They can also climb, float, crawl? I don't know how they do it, but they can find their way out of about anything. The tank must have a secure lid...or you will step on him in your bathroom at 3 a.m. !?@!*

4. They dig up plants, and move around gravel to their liking, making small caves, ditches ect to hide in, so they can cleverly perform #1. :)

5. They molt.

6. They are hardy. Probably because of #1. nice fresh diet...

7. I think most can get pretty good sized, would need a big tank.

8. I dont think they get along well with other crawdads, I'm not 100% sure on this one, but the males fight?
 
Personal experiences --

I've had/have crayfish of the cherax and procambarus (Hammer's Cobalt Blue Lobster) genus. The cherax was an absolute monster. He wrecked my filter, threw the driftwood around and ripped up all the plants. Never again.

The procambarus lives in my son's 65g Silver Dollar tank with a school of rasboras, a school of rummy nose, two SAE, and six silver dollars. Before that he lived with three of the aforementioned dollars, two tiger barbs, a pleco and a snail in a 20g. It was very crowded in there.

I have never had a problem with him. Sure, sometimes he'll move plants that are in his way, but I made sure I planted the 65g so that he can have room to manouver. Crayfish can't bend their bodies, so you have to plant smart.

The Silver Dollars are not afraid of him, even the smaller 3" ones. In fact, they steal his food right out from his claws. I feel sorry for him sometimes. The other day I watched Silver and Baby Silver do a tag team on him. Silver distracted him while Baby swam right between his claws and grabbed his wafer. I gave him another one. He rarely raises his claws at anyone, even the rummy nose and the rasboras. They steal his food too.

He's never bothered the pleco. They often sleep in the same hidey hole. I don't even think he knows the snail is there.

He's pretty cool.

Roan
 
i remember being at the LFS and they had a $2 crayfish and a $60 blue lobster in the same tank, well after coming back to look at the tank again i found there $60 blue lobster getting its @$$ wooped by the smaller crayfish ( i told the lady there and she seperated them), but yeah you do not want to keep them in a small tank together
 
I had a crayfish that became my bichirs food quickly after pinching one of them..... I now have a blue lobster in it's own tank. I throw feeders in now and then. Quite entertaining to watch him roam around. Make sure you have a tight lid. Mine was on my bedroom floor 2 days ago taking stroll. It was funny to see however. I love him, but would never trust him with my fish, for either side's saftey.
 
My personal experience with crawdads is that they are delicious!
 
ROFL these post are hilarious, especially the ones that involve small crustations ripping apart filters!!! and people steping on a spiny surprise!

i used to catch them in a local creek and take them home in pickle jars... and they would live for about a couple days before my mom made me take them back before they started dying... thats about all my experience with them, although you could get one, and if things go bad, you could just cook it in some butter to get retribution, it would be delitious as fishboy stated!
 
I had one that I saved from a crayfish boil. It was purple in color, so odd that it could easily be seperated from 50 lbs of live crayfish. Really cool though. Unfortunately it escaped and dried out while I was gone for a weekend.
 
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