Some more pics.
"Oh..... I ate a whole carnivore pellet in 4 pieces from Dad's hands."
"Oh..... I ate a whole carnivore pellet in 4 pieces from Dad's hands."
Around the fish room
- Thread starter twentyleagues
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Now just a minute! You're missing a tank or two on the left. Remove that cabinet and chair immediately! The furniture and shelving has to go, too...?
Crayfish breeding going well......... unfortunately they grow pretty quick. I started breeding them with the idea of getting a fahaka, but I'm probably not going that route at this time. I really want my 180 being a Tanganyikian tank and that's the only tank I have big enough right now.
That is quite a crop of crayfish you've got there! Maybe a little side business? ?
Lol right.
My schoutdeni has a really hard time catching them and gives up pretty quickly. She will eat them if they are incapacitated though and if she happens to catch one. I tried really small newly hatched ones with my pea puffers no interest. I've thought about tossing a few in with my polys just to see what might happen, but like with the pea puffers it's going to be hard getting them back out.
I hear predators like bass like to eat them as long as they have no big claws.
Yeah I've used them to catch Pike and bass when I used to fish alot. I don't have any bigger predators then my polys. They can eat the small ones I'm sure I just don't know if they can catch them or will even try.
From what I noticed with my bichir was he preferred artificial food over anything else. He would snag a guppy if it swam an inch from his face but never chased them. He didn't mind eating dead fish tho so he ended up being a good clean up system for my FH grow out tank because those lil pcycopaths constantly would kill each other. He also never seemed to have any interest in eating worms or anything either. I guess he just liked his dead fish and shrimp pellets over everything else.
They do seem to scavenge quite a bit. My male Del's took out about 10 giant danios, and when I tried adding the Congo tetras they were snapping at them too. So I would think those two would catch and eat crayfish if they could catch them that is. Im unsure of the rest of them though they are pretty lazy.
Lol they are bottom feeders after all. But yeah them crayfish would be hard to catch. They'd have to get behind it to catch it I would think since crayfish scoot backwards faster then they do forwards.
