Hey all, I just wanted to show off my newest addition to the family... the proper cray tank. Mommy jumped out and died a little while back, leaving her 35 babies, and I've decided rather than sell/feed them off like the orig plan, I'm going to go bigger and keep multiple adults and have the baby factories going all the time. Marbled crayfish (self-cloning) Project: Done.
The tank is 60" long, 12" tall and wide. I'm on a budget, so the gallonage had to be half-ish. With the gravel, rocks (planning for more), and the 5g rimless tank in there, I got my halfsies at 23.5g.
The 5g is half full as well, weighed down with rocks, glass bottles, and gravel. It's holding the 10g filter up keeping it dry on the inside, and low to the 40g's waterline on the outside to reduce waterfall noise. I'll be getting a second filter for the other side, possibly a 20g if I can. Don't want too strong a flow, babies at play. Planning to put a betta in the 5g, will waterchange it using the 40g's water.
Put a 5' mirror pane I found in the garage behind the tank, makes it look even bigger than it already does. Pothos ivy carefully strung up to add nitrate removal, awesome visual, and will be carefully monitored to make sure crays can't use it to climb out.
Yellow light on one side and purple shine-through on the other makes for cool visual, planning to get a third small light (white or light blue) for the middle, right over the betta tank.
4'x2'x13" Weather Loach Community - Weather Loches, Kuhli Loaches, Starry Night Eels, Cherry barbs, Guppies, Ottocats, Flying Fox, gup Fry nets
4'x18"x15" Predator Community - Rope Fish, Sen Bichir, Bushy nose Plecos
2.5'x12"x12" Siren Tank - Lesser Siren, occassionally guppies
10g Frog Community - Dwarf Aquatic Frogs, Blue Delta Guppies, Banjo Catfish, Cherry Shrimp, Amano Shrimp
and now...
5'x12"x12" Crayfish Tank - Marbled Crayfish (and soon to be guppy fry)
Anyone like?
The tank is 60" long, 12" tall and wide. I'm on a budget, so the gallonage had to be half-ish. With the gravel, rocks (planning for more), and the 5g rimless tank in there, I got my halfsies at 23.5g.
The 5g is half full as well, weighed down with rocks, glass bottles, and gravel. It's holding the 10g filter up keeping it dry on the inside, and low to the 40g's waterline on the outside to reduce waterfall noise. I'll be getting a second filter for the other side, possibly a 20g if I can. Don't want too strong a flow, babies at play. Planning to put a betta in the 5g, will waterchange it using the 40g's water.
Put a 5' mirror pane I found in the garage behind the tank, makes it look even bigger than it already does. Pothos ivy carefully strung up to add nitrate removal, awesome visual, and will be carefully monitored to make sure crays can't use it to climb out.
Yellow light on one side and purple shine-through on the other makes for cool visual, planning to get a third small light (white or light blue) for the middle, right over the betta tank.
4'x2'x13" Weather Loach Community - Weather Loches, Kuhli Loaches, Starry Night Eels, Cherry barbs, Guppies, Ottocats, Flying Fox, gup Fry nets
4'x18"x15" Predator Community - Rope Fish, Sen Bichir, Bushy nose Plecos
2.5'x12"x12" Siren Tank - Lesser Siren, occassionally guppies
10g Frog Community - Dwarf Aquatic Frogs, Blue Delta Guppies, Banjo Catfish, Cherry Shrimp, Amano Shrimp
and now...
5'x12"x12" Crayfish Tank - Marbled Crayfish (and soon to be guppy fry)
Anyone like?
... tank looks dead 80% of the time because everyone hides!)