Survival of the fittest

[jcashion]

A little over a month ago, I wrote in about my crazy defensive Rick James Crawdad. Well, he eventually got eaten. So did his mate. When She was eaten, Oscar filtered all of her babies out of his gills. It was cool until they all disappeared. While doing a water change tonite, I pull out of biobag, and lo and behold, a 1" crawdad! Hanging on the bag! He'd been surviving of the stuff going through the filter, and growing super fast! He's in my 20 Gallon now to grow up before I stick him in the sump for my 220.

BTW, filled up my 220 tonite, FINALLY! and the internal everflow split a seam. No external leakage, but it means that, if the power ever went out, I'd drain about 80 gallons into my 50 gallon sump, so I had to drain the whole thing, and I'll redo the silicone on it tomorrow. :swear: Oh well, I'll update next week.

[benzjamin13]

That's cool. I've seen feeders and crayfish in sump filters before...I've always thought that they somehow escaped and ended up there. I never thought that they might've been put there on purpose.

[rook45]

that guy deserves to live

[stnwag0n]

i've always wanted to keep an oscar with a crayfish or two. how do you guys pull it off without the oscar eating the crayfish? or the crayfish eating the oscar if the oscar is still young? if the crayfish have caves, do the oscars make an effort to dig in there to get them?

[jcashion]

From what I understand, and have now seen, the oscar will usually kill the crawdad. That's why I'm going to put it in my sump, so I'll have a monster crawdad. They did live just fine with my black convicts, though, and actually dug their own caves. I thought they all got eaten because they had disappeared, but they had actually burrowed into the substrate! It was really cool. Now I have this baby who somehow survived out of about 200 siblings. Pretty cool. Any ideas for names for this bad boy? He deserves one.

[MarlboroMan]

This reminds me of my co workers story of his 60 gallon and his red bellies. He threw in some crayfish for his reds, and some of them got too big and lived for a while. One day he was cleaning out his canister and found 100s of tiny crayfish in the canister. He said it was one of the most disgusting things he's ever seen. But hey, free feeders.

[Chad55]

That will be pretty awsome. What is the purpose of the crawfish in sumps? Oh yea and I think a good name would be Leroy. HAHAHA

Chad

[ewurm]

From what I understand, and have now seen, the oscar will usually kill the crawdad. That's why I'm going to put it in my sump, so I'll have a monster crawdad. They did live just fine with my black convicts, though, and actually dug their own caves. I thought they all got eaten because they had disappeared, but they had actually burrowed into the substrate! It was really cool. Now I have this baby who somehow survived out of about 200 siblings. Pretty cool. Any ideas for names for this bad boy? He deserves one.


I would name him Rollins, after the guy who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell on him, and hiked back down the mountain.

[fishnutham]

I would name him Rollins, after the guy who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell on him, and hiked back down the mountain.


hes a tough mother that dude!!!

[ewurm]

Yeah, if I was in that situation, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't cut my arm off. I'm not sure what I would do...

[timkaren8803]

i've always wanted to keep an oscar with a crayfish or two. how do you guys pull it off without the oscar eating the crayfish? or the crayfish eating the oscar if the oscar is still young? if the crayfish have caves, do the oscars make an effort to dig in there to get them?


I think it's just luck when it happens, we used to give our oscars a crawdad for thanksgiving but this year, they adopted it! When we moved them all to the 125g we added our big clown knife to the tank and the knife and the crawdad became buddies and shared the hiding place we put in for the knife. Now the crawdad shares a tank with a jag, when we put feeders in, the jag eats the heads and the crawdad eats the tails. It's weird but it works.

[Filthy Sanchez]

hes a tough mother that dude!!!


I was going to say Darwin, but I like Rollins, that guy is a survivor man. Don't know if I have it in me to cut off my own arm.

[slammer]

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[fishnutham]

I was going to say Darwin, but I like Rollins, that guy is a survivor man. Don't know if I have it in me to cut off my own arm.


thats for sure did you see that pocket knive he used ohh!! talk about hacking ..

[jcashion]

That will be pretty awsome. What is the purpose of the crawfish in sumps? Oh yea and I think a good name would be Leroy. HAHAHA

Chad
The purpose of crayfish in a sump is to help keep it clean These guys are scavengers, so it's a perfect environment :o)

Also, I think I'm gonna go with Rollins. I'm out of town right now, so hopefully he'll be alive. I didn't see him in my 20 before I left the house, so I'm hoping he just burrowed. The fish in the 20 aren't really big enough to eat him right now. Well, then again. But he's a beast. I think he'll hold his own

[SiestaSkyy]

i threw in a bunch of small crayfish for the fish in my 220 and about a month ago i was doing a tear down and rebuild and sure enough one made it. he was about 2" now with one arm growing back(think they took that one) i guess he must have just been living under a rock or something. i'm also suprised my blue crayfish thats about 5.5" didn't eat him. hes eatin all my fresh water clams and my snails... bastard. never thought about keeping him in the sump. dont you think hed get sucked in to the pump inlet?

[lancerlot]

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:ROFL: lmfao

[Don4921]

that is really kool

[Don4921]

any pics?

[ddyerfamily]

I would name him Rollins, after the guy who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell on him, and hiked back down the mountain.
you forgot DULL pocket knife ! poor fella