Food for Cray

[akaEric]

Does anyone know what is the favourite food of cray?
Would they prefer mealworm, bloodworm or superworms? And I realised that feeding too much feeder fish makes the cray aggressive. Is there anyway to make it less aggressive for a P. Clarki? Because its causing a total destruction in my tank.

 

[xthao3]

dead fish =D ahaha

 

[xthao3]

i think they'll eat anything that smells like fish and worms are always great as well

 

[Scorponok]

Crayfish bait?

http://www.aquamaxfishfeed.com/prod_crawfish.html

 

[Pyramid_Party]

They eat almost anything. Out of your choices the bloodworms is the best . You can feed them fish flakes, earthworms, pieces of various veggies.

 

[akaEric]

I have feed them with red mealworms. 3 or 4 for 1 meal. But how many meals should I give them a day to prevent cannibalism? I have lost 2 out of 3 cray due to cannibalism. 1 just died today.

 

[piggy67]

I have feed them with red mealworms. 3 or 4 for 1 meal. But how many meals should I give them a day to prevent cannibalism? I have lost 2 out of 3 cray due to cannibalism. 1 just died today.

You cant stop cannibalism with crays. All you can do is provide lots of hiding places. Feed them algea waffers and shrimp pellets as a staple but they will eat just about anything. The problem is when they molt, they are very weak and cant defend themselves very well, also their exoskeleton is very soft when they first molt which makes them very easy targets for fish.

 

[Pyramid_Party]

How big is the tank and how big are the crays?

 

[akaEric]

about 5 gallon. Now left 1 cray which is about 3.5 inch

 

[mofisher]

i feed mine some algae waffers