DO NOT KEEP CRAWDAD

[critter_bob]

Crayfish can definitely catch and kill other fish in the aquarium. And they will also consume many aquatic plants, so if you have a planted tank, the crayfish can do a lot of damage there too!

 

[Gearhead]

There is a type of crayfish that is fine with fish and plants. They also breed by cloning and stay small. I have one in a 10g with 5 rosy reds and a ghost shrimp and they've been living happily for over a year.

 

[mbeatrice]

my money would be on the trout dying, then the crawdad went for the cleanup.

i agree 100 %....

 

[warmouth]

Bass_Cats.....Do they attack your Ghost shrimp? Hmmmn sounds like a feeder tank, what are you feeding with them , and what type of cray is it?

 

[Dark Jester]

There is a type of crayfish that is fine with fish and plants. They also breed by cloning and stay small. I have one in a 10g with 5 rosy reds and a ghost shrimp and they've been living happily for over a year.

Bass_Cats.....Do they attack your Ghost shrimp? Hmmmn sounds like a feeder tank, what are you feeding with them , and what type of cray is it?

He's talking about Marbled Crayfish. Many have had success keeping them with Shrimp, I haven't really seen any stories of them eating shrimp in the cases where they are housed together. Probably depends on how well they are fed. But they will eat plants (depends on whether it tastes good to them or not) and they can also snag an occasional fish. Of all the cray species, they are the most docile though. Many people keep them with fish successfully, but you have to realize that the potential is always there for them to catch one.

 

[Gearhead]

Bass_Cats.....Do they attack your Ghost shrimp? Hmmmn sounds like a feeder tank, what are you feeding with them , and what type of cray is it?

It started as an experiment to see if they could live together peacefully. I feed cushed cichlid pellets for the rosies, and the cray just cleans up after them. I even stopped feeding them for an entire week while I was on vacation, and no one was eaten. It did eat my java moss, but has left my java ferns and swords alone. They're a dwarf cray, so they stay at around 2" and clone themselves very easily. I paid $5 for a tiny cray and it grew very quickly. And they are very hardy little crays, I only run an airstone in their tank.

 

[warmouth]

It started as an experiment to see if they could live together peacefully. I feed cushed cichlid pellets for the rosies, and the cray just cleans up after them. I even stopped feeding them for an entire week while I was on vacation, and no one was eaten. It did eat my java moss, but has left my java ferns and swords alone. They're a dwarf cray, so they stay at around 2" and clone themselves very easily. I paid $5 for a tiny cray and it grew very quickly. And they are very hardy little crays, I only run an airstone in their tank.

Very interesting.....i was asking because I keep Rosie reds (used to be feeders until my Green Sunfish got too big and I had to move them to a pond), and Ive always wondered if I could keep shrimp in with them.....do the shrimp eat the fish swimups (baby fish)?

 

[warmouth]

He's talking about Marbled Crayfish. Many have had success keeping them with Shrimp, I haven't really seen any stories of them eating shrimp in the cases where they are housed together. Probably depends on how well they are fed. But they will eat plants (depends on whether it tastes good to them or not) and they can also snag an occasional fish. Of all the cray species, they are the most docile though. Many people keep them with fish successfully, but you have to realize that the potential is always there for them to catch one.

Yeah I was going to keep some native crawdad with my feeders, but the only crawdads we have near us are the Nrothern crawdad and the Golden crayfish (Orconectes virilis, and Orconectes Luteus) . I was told that they would both eat my Rosies at night.

 

[Gearhead]

Yeah I was going to keep some native crawdad with my feeders, but the only crawdads we have near us are the Nrothern crawdad and the Golden crayfish (Orconectes virilis, and Orconectes Luteus) . I was told that they would both eat my Rosies at night.

Those crays would definitely eat the rosies. I don't have any baby fish in there, but I dont think the shrimp would care if there were. I'm hoping that my cray will berry soon as I would like to sell the babies.

 

[audibleguy]

My crawdad took over a 30 gal tank. I finally had to move it to it's own home in a five gallon acrylic. I feed it Hikari sinking carnivore wafers and it loves them.