how many crawl-outs have you experienced with inverts?
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I just got a crayfish last week. He's got his own 30 gallon high. Still a baby, but already taken out all three goldfish I threw in to acclimate the tank. I cut some pexiglass to cover the openings. I really hope he doesn't crawl out. I would crap my pants if I woke up with him on my pillow.
I had a few common green crayfish vanish still have no idea where they went.....I have several Blue cobalts tried to breed them but the female killed the males. I had a pair in a 30 gal but again she ate the male as soon as he molted. I have the two female in my 350 gal indoor pond. Will do a water change tonight and I hope they are still there. my 20" male koi has his eye on them. ALso mine destroyed a number of plants and of course they just loved the $35,00 new plants and thats why they in the pond.
I have a twenty gallon that has a small fiddler crab and ghost shrimp. The tank is open all the time. I've never had any of them attempt to escape. The crab has never touched the guppies in there. He will climb over all the plants, but always stops at the top of the tank. Or at least so far.
Gally
Gally
So far I haven't lost any of the shrimp to the crab. He seems satisfied with the crab bites I feed him and wreaking general havoc with my live plants.
Gally
Gally
I made the mistake of putting my red clawed crab in my brand new tank, with a few openings in it. After about 3 hours of being in there he was missing, so i searched all over the room to find where he could possibly be.
It turns out he just likes to climb into the filter and sit there. I had to used a duct/masking tape combo to seal every possible hole out, so now he's free to go up there whenever he wants.
The other weird thing is that I didn't know crabs could "swim", because mine will just crawl up to the highest rock, and swim from one side of the tank to the other so he can crawl up the filter.
I caught it on video if anyone is interested...
It turns out he just likes to climb into the filter and sit there. I had to used a duct/masking tape combo to seal every possible hole out, so now he's free to go up there whenever he wants.
The other weird thing is that I didn't know crabs could "swim", because mine will just crawl up to the highest rock, and swim from one side of the tank to the other so he can crawl up the filter.
I caught it on video if anyone is interested...
crays in my 55 never live long enough to crawl out "crunch crunch"
i did find one a few days ago that had crawled into the filter and molted but after i cleaned it he got eaten to
i did have my pet cray crawl out and disapear i found him befing the trash can about 50 feet from the tank
all the crabs crawl out because they are not really fully aquatic
i did find one a few days ago that had crawled into the filter and molted but after i cleaned it he got eaten to
i did have my pet cray crawl out and disapear i found him befing the trash can about 50 feet from the tank
all the crabs crawl out because they are not really fully aquatic
Never lost a crab, I always have some sort of basking ledge or driftwood sticking up in the center of their tank for them to sit on.
I had an amano shrimp get out, how I don't know because all my tanks are covered.
Anyways, it jumped over to a bookcase that butts up against the tank. DH was walking by with some coffe, set the cup down on the bookcase, then jumped about 6 feet backwards while screaming like my 8 year old daughter!
"OMG!, OMG! What in the h**L is that THING! It's gross, it's got stuff waving at me! ICK ICK! That came out of your fish tank, it's wet! It's going to jump at me, it's going for my coffee!"
I was laughing my ass off becuse this 2 inch shrimp had a 6foot 4 man cowering in terror!
Oh, an apple snail crawled out of my DD 10 gallon tank. We found it by her bedroom door! Wonder where it was going?
I had an amano shrimp get out, how I don't know because all my tanks are covered.
Anyways, it jumped over to a bookcase that butts up against the tank. DH was walking by with some coffe, set the cup down on the bookcase, then jumped about 6 feet backwards while screaming like my 8 year old daughter!
"OMG!, OMG! What in the h**L is that THING! It's gross, it's got stuff waving at me! ICK ICK! That came out of your fish tank, it's wet! It's going to jump at me, it's going for my coffee!"
I was laughing my ass off becuse this 2 inch shrimp had a 6foot 4 man cowering in terror!
Oh, an apple snail crawled out of my DD 10 gallon tank. We found it by her bedroom door! Wonder where it was going?
Howdy,
I had a 10 gal with fiddler crabs and some shrimp. The shrimp didn't make it too long ... they vanished. No clue if it was the crabs or not. The clean-up I certainly owe to the crabs. Anyhow, the fiddlers never made it out. There would have been enough room for them, but I had a nice piece of driftwood reaching above the surface with the filter outlet splashing down like a waterfall, and they just loved that. Apparently, they didn't see the need to relocate.
HarleyK
I had a 10 gal with fiddler crabs and some shrimp. The shrimp didn't make it too long ... they vanished. No clue if it was the crabs or not. The clean-up I certainly owe to the crabs. Anyhow, the fiddlers never made it out. There would have been enough room for them, but I had a nice piece of driftwood reaching above the surface with the filter outlet splashing down like a waterfall, and they just loved that. Apparently, they didn't see the need to relocate.
HarleyK
