Crayfish dying, help please.

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deadmanwalking

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So I got a red Marlboro crayfish on Saturday and today it lost all of its legs and all the other fish are starting to pick on it. Other fish in 120 are gt, Oscar, black ghost, blue crayfish, zig zag eel, 2 plecos a silver shark, salvini cichlid and polleni cichlid.

It's now in my 6gal with betta (6gal has no substrate so I don't know if that's going to be a problem).

I could move my betta to 33gal with Gouramis, swordtails, glass cats, elephant nose, African butterfly, red tailed black shark, firemouth and angels but I haven't had a chance to even look at compatibility yet.

So what I am wondering is;

Do you think it will be able to survive?
Do you think it's alright with betta just now or should i move betta to 33?
Do you know if they grow their legs back and if they do do you know how long roughly it will take?
Anything else I can do or anything else I should know?

Thanks for the help and if you know something (anything) that can help then please let me know.


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Crayfish will grow new limbs the next time it moults. Hopefully, yours will survive to moult. However, if it has no legs, it won't be able to move and eat, and most likely won't survive.
 
It'll never survive in that comm tank. Most of what you listed will actively hunt crays. I'd get the other one out before it goes through the same ordeal.

The cray may have been starting it's molt. Crays need a secure and private place to accomplish their molts. They're defenseless and immobile during this long period. Your list has at least 3 species that can ferret crays out of their hiding spots and leave them open to attack by the entire comm.
 
Unfortunately, your set up was like putting a chicken in a pen of foxes. Eventually somebody is going to get ate. :) Oh and I would put the other crayfish of the list of potential crayfish hunters/ leg remover.
 
I had a similar problem with my white cray. He lost quite a few limbs so I relocated him to 7.5 cube with a ton of hiding places for him. He was extremely dormant for a few weeks at which time I feed him high protein foods such as live blood worms, tubiflex worms. and algae wafers. after a few weeks he molted and all the limbs had grown back but just were a little smaller. 2 months later he molted again and all limbs were back to normal size. Hope that helps
 
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