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bigredjeep
12-15-2007, 2:49 AM
im ,ooking for a bottom feeder for my tank, can a ocean caught lobster live in frshwater? i work at walmart (as a beer distributor) and i coukld have sworn i heard them talkin about the lobster water. and i have no idea how lobsters work, but yea is it possible?
AquataHolic420
12-15-2007, 3:06 AM
dude touching a lobster from the ocean is SOOOOOO Illegal. U need a license just to touch ones that are LARGE enough to keep.
bigredjeep
12-15-2007, 3:12 AM
O trust me im fully aware lol. i was just wondering if a lobster can live in freshwater, cuz aqua scape is selling a "blue lobster" and i wasnt sure if it was for fresh or salt water. Im not gonna go rob a lobster pot or nething lol
It will be some sort of freshwater lobster or cray?
There are several species, but many of them are pretty nasty little critters :eek:.
Then they moult their hard shell, and get eaten :(.
Cheers
Ian
This is some pics of our local ones.
http://picasaweb.google.com/nznativefish/CrayfishKoura
AquataHolic420
12-15-2007, 3:21 AM
O trust me im fully aware lol. i was just wondering if a lobster can live in freshwater, cuz aqua scape is selling a "blue lobster" and i wasnt sure if it was for fresh or salt water. Im not gonna go rob a lobster pot or nething lol
prolly a crayfish. And u dont have to rob a lobster pot, ive seen plenty of spanish and asian people flippin rocks or using chicken as bait luring in crabs and lobsters illegally while i was fishin on the jetty. I dont care as long as they stay away from me and my lucky spot.
bigredjeep
12-15-2007, 3:24 AM
yea i wont be doin it like that, i was just wondering if hypothetically a lobster that is being sold for food at a store could live in freshwater
AquataHolic420
12-15-2007, 3:25 AM
yea i wont be doin it like that, i was just wondering if hypothetically a lobster that is being sold for food at a store could live in freshwater
Prolly for a short time maybe in fresh, not for life or survival even.. i mean they can live in the fridge's vegetable section for a while too.
My dads a lobsterman too.
Stone Like Fish
12-15-2007, 6:43 AM
Blue lobster is fresh water if its http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/images/thumbimg/650/2645_6.jpg
Aquaman_95
12-15-2007, 6:44 AM
O trust me im fully aware lol. i was just wondering if a lobster can live in freshwater, cuz aqua scape is selling a "blue lobster" and i wasnt sure if it was for fresh or salt water. Im not gonna go rob a lobster pot or nething lol The blue lobster that LFS'S sale are really only crayfish. Crawdads Crawfish however you want to say it.
bigredjeep
12-15-2007, 9:18 AM
it prolly is a crawdad, this is the link to what i was talkin bout
http://www.aquascapeonline.com/prodView.asp?idproduct=54
Yep, SW lobsters are completely SW. There are several types of Crayfish sold as FW lobsters, lol, I guess it just sounds better.
SimonL
12-15-2007, 3:38 PM
The Aussie blue lobster or Yabbie is Cherax quinquecarinatus. It is a fully freshwater crayfish species. There is also a blue color morph of the American crayfish Procambarus alleni, again a freshwater species.
AquataHolic420
12-15-2007, 5:03 PM
The Aussie blue lobster or Yabbie is Cherax quinquecarinatus. It is a fully freshwater crayfish species. There is also a blue color morph of the American crayfish Procambarus alleni, again a freshwater species.
arent there color morphs for the american SW lobster too? I swear ive seen blue and white and red morphs. Theyre very rare, but they have em at major public aquariums. AKA Boston Aquarium had some.
Oni Angel-Hannya
12-15-2007, 5:10 PM
There only relations are that they are Crustaceans.
SimonL
12-15-2007, 6:31 PM
Yup, there are different color versions of Homarus (spelling?) but you're not likely to see them for sale at your LFS!.
AquataHolic420
12-15-2007, 6:38 PM
Yup, there are different color versions of Homarus (spelling?) but you're not likely to see them for sale at your LFS!.
oh hellll no. No LFS should have them. Theyre very cool to look at.. i think the chances of the morphed lobster existing are like 1 in 5 million. i made up those numbers but i know theyre extremely rare.
anyone remember the 50+ lb lobster named bubba, that was caught and was being shipped to a museum?? it died the day it got to the museum. damn shame, i bet it was over 40 - 5o years old.
SimonL
12-15-2007, 7:22 PM
One in two million actually lol for blue lobsters.
Crazy Taco
12-15-2007, 7:53 PM
nope nope nope nope.
fishdance
12-16-2007, 12:27 AM
It will be some sort of freshwater lobster or cray?
There are several species, but many of them are pretty nasty little critters :eek:.
Then they moult their hard shell, and get eaten :(.
Cheers
Ian
Ian,
If you have a hollow one ended pipe or cave for crays to hide in they can bluff and defend theselveds for the few hours it takes for their new shell to harden up. You probably know but they will inflate thier new shell as big as possible with water before it hardens and then they GROW into their new skin. You will need a pipe of cave if your keeping crays as they will even eat each other otherwise.
SimonL
12-16-2007, 5:36 PM
nope nope nope nope.
I'm confused ...
hydroponic
02-05-2008, 8:34 PM
heres my "blue lobster"
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hangner
02-05-2008, 8:39 PM
i put live store bought obsters in my little pond before i was going to cook them and they died after a couple of hours then i ate them...
Fish_are_fishfood
02-05-2008, 8:48 PM
One in two million actually lol for blue lobsters.
The market I used to work at kept a blue lobster as their mascot so to say. We labeled merchandise and a cafe after him. We had two of them donated to us, one by a local fisherman, that caught them. I used to feed the second one we had, pretty cool, but they both passed for unknown reasons. Kept them in a 100gallon cold full salt tank.
fatherof5
02-05-2008, 9:47 PM
Nice blue Hydroponic.
deepblue101
02-10-2008, 5:09 PM
a cray fish
Moontanman
05-02-2008, 10:58 PM
O trust me im fully aware lol. i was just wondering if a lobster can live in freshwater, cuz aqua scape is selling a "blue lobster" and i wasnt sure if it was for fresh or salt water. Im not gonna go rob a lobster pot or nething lol
a freshwater blue lobster is a blue color phase of a freshwater crafish, not a lobster. a lobster is a marine crustecean related to but not the same as a crayfish. i think it's very misleading to sell crayfish as lobsters.
le patron
05-28-2008, 6:36 AM
i agree. blue lobsters are crayfish, you can probably find them at your lfs
Charney
05-28-2008, 4:04 PM
a lot of the blue sw lobster you see are created by a nutritional deficiency. If you keep a sw in captive for a while you can turn it blueish to blue
Shiroi Katsune
06-06-2008, 12:20 AM
You could get a Spiny Lobster if you wanted a tropical saltwater one. No claws but way cooler looking IMO. I'll have some next month, but I'll be eating them.
bluekrissyspikes
06-06-2008, 5:28 PM
i've seen these guys labeled as freshwater blue lobsters too. she's really a blue color morph of the australian yabbie.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/tattoogemini/HPIM0723.jpg
Also, this is what i see in the morning when i open my eyes. she looks like she's gonna get me!
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/tattoogemini/HPIM0711.jpg