Ghost shrimp and crayfish with piranha

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kevbc03

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So I'm thinking about trying a little experiment cohabiting my 4 inch Sanchezi with a crayfish from my local stream. Bad idea?

Obviously the crayfish will be a potential meal, but that's not the part I'm worried about...will the cray harm my sanchezi? Should I go for a smaller sized cray or just nip the experiment in the butt?

What about ghost shrimp? Too easy of a target for the p?
 
kevbc03 said:
So I'm thinking about trying a little experiment cohabiting my 4 inch Sanchezi with a crayfish from my local stream. Bad idea?

Obviously the crayfish will be a potential meal, but that's not the part I'm worried about...will the cray harm my sanchezi? Should I go for a smaller sized cray or just nip the experiment in the butt?

What about ghost shrimp? Too easy of a target for the p?
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I've had exp with both, crawfish will try and pinch your fish and make him a meal, just find a smaller one and keep an eye on it, ghost shrimp make a great clean up crew but they do get picked off easily. and if its from your local stream u may want to quarentine it for a couple weeks, if it eats and its poo isn't white and stringy it should be fine! Here's one I had that lived with my rbp shoal, had to kill him and eat the meat when he started tearing up my sponge filter.

He was near 8" and would have killed your 4" p.


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Dealing with the crayfish, I should find one smaller than my piranha? What size should relative to my 4 inch p?

Can they really detect the ghost shrimp that easily? I would think they would be harder to spot since they are nearly transparent..?

I also have a convict currently living with my P (that originally was a feeder from about 5 months prior but somehow survived this long) and I am to assume if the P doesn't get him, the cray will?
 
I have ghost shrimp, fiddler crabs and red clawed crabs. The ghost shrimp need cover or they will not last long. The P's ignore the crabs but you need to have the tank set up for crabs.
 
an idea for the ghost shrimp would be to put like a mat of moss down so the shrimp have somewhere to hide and if your p. shreads the moss its okay because once it settles it will "replant" itself
 
i've had no luck keeping any ghost shrimp alive in my rhom tank OR shoal when i had one.


no experience with cray i can share with you other then repeating my friend's personal experience with chiclids
 
hmm...yeah i should nip this idea before it goes sour. Thanks all
 
i dropped two store bought crays into my p tank once, one didn't last the drop down to the substrate, the other was gone by morning. they were smaller, but not by much.

i have some marbled crays right now in a tank under the stand, waiting for a good berry and then i'm going to drop the lot of them into the tank and hope for the best since they'll be so small and there should be so many. I've just gotta do some re-arranging first to make ample hiding spots for all of them
 
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