Since this photo his face has made a full recovery but its fins were still a little beat up. I have done alot of fishing with live baits for bass and catfish the scales where displaced only in a way another fish could do. The small crappies face was tore up from being in the large crappies mouth. The large crappies mouth was red from tring to eat something to large to swallow. I could see the cray finishing the job but the small crappie was already done for.WattaMelon;3354530; said:Fish moved to prepared foods will still eat live foods at any given time. In fact, they relish live foods if they're mostly on prepared...in my experience (and I have a lot of it, not to toot my horn).
Also, crays kill and maim even if they're well fed. At night they grab sleeping fish... it's just in their nature. My neighbors set up their first fish tank, a 29 with a couple of dogtooth cichlids, then they decided to buy two small crays. A couple of days later their cichlids completely vanished. They found the bodies in a cave, half decomposed.
Besides, this is your larger crappie, right?
This is going to sound a little "out there" but in my experience, fish in this condition aren't up for beating up other fish.
Also, that cray you have there isn't exactly a small cray.
So, I'd blame the cray.
Bad crappie
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WattaMelon;3354530; said:Fish moved to prepared foods will still eat live foods at any given time. In fact, they relish live foods if they're mostly on prepared...in my experience (and I have a lot of it, not to toot my horn).
Also, crays kill and maim even if they're well fed. At night they grab sleeping fish... it's just in their nature. My neighbors set up their first fish tank, a 29 with a couple of dogtooth cichlids, then they decided to buy two small crays. A couple of days later their cichlids completely vanished. They found the bodies in a cave, half decomposed.
Besides, this is your larger crappie, right?
This is going to sound a little "out there" but in my experience, fish in this condition aren't up for beating up other fish.
Also, that cray you have there isn't exactly a small cray.
So, I'd blame the cray.
Agreed 100% you can't break a million years of evolution of a predator by feeding pellets for a few months or years.
And about that pic of the crapped out crappie
wowzers
How is it over stocked all but one fish are only 3 -5 inchs. The only reason I moved the big crappie out the 120 Is because well you can see in the pic what the bass did to it.oscarcrazy;3354641; said:
I dont feed it pellets I feed the crappies market shrimp.hybridtheoryd16;3354714; said:Agreed 100% you can't break a million years of evolution of a predator by feeding pellets for a few months or years.
And about that pic of the crapped out crappie
wowzers
Ya I know thats what happens when its in the tank with a young male bass and 2 female bassTheKrow;3360868; said:
I walk up to my room tonight to find the cray in half and a very fat happy green sunfish. I feed the rest of the cray to my oscar. That sucks cuz now I need to find another female cray to pair with my male.
