Crayfish Help

needlefish · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:37 pm Post subject: Crayfish Help

My sister has a 2 inch crayfish in a 5 gallon tank and i want to move it into a 10 gallon tank. What would it eat? could he live with live plants? are there any catfish that can live with it?

Thanks for your help

Dillon

AMR22 · Member Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 70

yes they can live with live plants and i think they would eat shrimp pellets and brine shrimp

kevinRB · New member Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 19 Location: ontario

some crayfish I find rather agressive and i wouldnt suggest getting any kind of fish Mr. Green

FMgurl43 · Member Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Florida

hi i own breed and raise crayfish and if u put them in a tank w/ live plants more then likely they will eat it if they cant find anything else... crayfish will eat whatever they can catch or u feed them... i feed mine regular fish food live plants and grass shrimp and dead fish they love decaying matter......as far as the fish go u can put them w/ almost any kind of fish and they shouldnt eat the fish as long as u feed them regualraly....i have a 10 gallon tank w one in it now along w/ some guppies and my cray dont even touch my fish... so u should be fine as long as u dont 4get to feed them...

needlefish · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject:

i have some baby cichlids in the 10 gallon and when i put the crayfish in, they attacked it. what can i do to have the crawfish be active and not get killed?

fishdude · Member Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 94

crayfish can notbe kept with other fish, cray fish or plants unless you want to feed them. I keep my crays in 15g tanks with good rockwork and filteration. they also like their own caves.

FMgurl43 · Member Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Florida

i keep 2 crays in my 30 gal tank along w/ fish and plants and they do not mess w/ each other or do they mess w/ the plants or fish sooo.....

Alen · Member Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Santa Rosa

FMgurl43
Since you have crayfish I thought I would ask you a few questions, First have you ever kept a crayfish and a pleco in the same tank? Would the crayfish attack/kill the pleco? I ask this beacuse I want to put a crayfish in my 45gal tank with my firemouths and 5 inch long pleco.

needlefish · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

a crayfish will kill anything that can fit in its claws. any bottom dwellers may get killed. See, I have done my homework! Mr. Green

FMgurl43 · Member Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Florida

yes in one of our ponds we have them together and they r still doing fine...

Alen · Member Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Santa Rosa

How big is the pleco though.....?

FMgurl43 · Member Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Florida

well the pleco is a lil bigger then the crayfish not by much but im guessing the cray is maybe bout 3 in. and id say the the pleco is maybe 3.5 but thats just guessing...

fishdude · Member Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 94

wish my cray would be like that.