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likestofish
01-18-2008, 7:00 PM
I went to lfs and they had just gotten a gianty blue crawfish it was like 8 inches long spread out. Looked like this they were selling for 50http://www.azgardens.com/images/Lobster-CheraxquadLINK.gif
groovitudedude
01-18-2008, 7:01 PM
Feed it to an Mbu. :) jk
Wolf3101
01-18-2008, 7:05 PM
We have a pair of those beasts in our 150 gallon named Jake and Elwood. Make sure you provide a hiding spot for them (hollow log or large flintstone house) for when they moult. We paid $10.00 for them about a year and a half ago. Very intresting creatures and a lot of fun to watch.
Manny Stiles
01-20-2008, 12:33 PM
I love mine. Have had it over a year - 7-8 inches long. Paid $10 from a website. Bought a bunch of other stuff at the same time to get free shipping!
Never actually bothered to sex it, but it's a "he" in my opinion. Very peaceful and too slow to mess with any of my current fish. He trimmed a pleco tail once but that pleco learned quickly. Every so often it will engage in a tank alpha dog staredown with my Texas (who I'm SURE would love to taste him) but "Pigger" my Texas gets the worst end.
My cherax is very active, all things considered. Has molted several times. Fun to watch - it will begin to eat it's own shell right after molting. Doesn't bother my plants but loves to hide/chill where activity is limited. Has yet to venture outside of the tank unlike the tendencies of Northern Hemisphere craws.
I'm moving soon or would already have more!!!
agreeive?fish
01-23-2008, 9:21 AM
Had a male and a female....and bunches of little ones...lost the whole batch in a unplaned forced tank move and i even had a LARGE pet store about 2 hours away from me who was going to buy the whole lot of little ones (and my mom lives in that town so it would of been a nice trip but the whole batch including parents are now gone back to the great fish place in the sky
aquaman4fish
01-30-2008, 1:02 AM
Hey Manny,
Can you share what that website link is please?
Thanks!
deepblue101
02-15-2008, 7:03 AM
Feed it to an Mbu. :) jk
:ROFL:
feed the mbu to a prainna then to a great barrcuda! :hitting::j/k:
marxxx
02-15-2008, 8:40 AM
That is a red claw crayfish (cherax quadricarinatus). They are about the perfect aquarium cryafish imo as they are the only cray (that I know of) who will thrive in a tropical setup!
They are usually 10-15 for small ones.
Death Pony
02-15-2008, 3:59 PM
We have a pair of those beasts in our 150 gallon named Jake and Elwood. Make sure you provide a hiding spot for them (hollow log or large flintstone house) for when they moult. We paid $10.00 for them about a year and a half ago. Very intresting creatures and a lot of fun to watch.
HAHAHA!!!!! Nice choice of names!!!
voss345
02-15-2008, 4:27 PM
wow thats real cool
Z Trip
02-15-2008, 4:39 PM
My LFS has them. Suppost to get big. I'm affraid of it eating other fish at night thow....
Their FW their entire life right?
Z
mrgrackle
02-15-2008, 7:54 PM
doesn't the blueness come from it's diet? I bought a couple feeder crawfish for my tank and one of them's turned blue since I've had him and is starting to get big. Poor guys only got one claw, but he'll wave that thing around!
They get bluer from light. I think it's like humans tanning, Has something to do with the pigment. Not sure.
theheffners
02-15-2008, 10:58 PM
i have seen blue ones at my lfs around here, but they all look dyed this actually looks natural. when i was real little we would go down to the creek and catch crayfish and plop them in our aquariums and then when they got real big my mom would freak out.
catfish hippy man (dylan)
02-16-2008, 7:04 AM
:cry:red claw crayfish are illigeal in the uk