I'm going to rethink that driveway comment. I drive a diesel pickup and if that things not drooling some sort of fluid it's because it's empty. I'll find rocks somewhere else. Thanks for the idea though.Understood and I've got a driveway full of that. Will do.
The Mexican Dwarves are bright orange and cool and all that but they're small and never out, ever. I haven't seen one in a couple months though I know there are a ton in the tank.TB, why do you expect these guys to be any more sociable and friendly than your old Blue Boy? He sounded like a typical crayfish to me. I've had lots of crayfish over the years, both imported/purchased and also locally-collected back in Ontario, and I've never met one that wasn't a complete butthead. Regardless of size or species, they all mow down aquarium plants right to the roots...they all spend most of their time waiting for one of their siblings to molt so that they can tear him to pieces...and they all eventually catch the fish kept with them. They're interesting to keep, watch and breed...but you gotta make a lot of allowances.
Is there something different about these new self-cloning ones? Are they more enlightened and socially-evolved and forward-thinking than their dusty old two-genders-required counterparts?
I mean...2 in a bag didn't last together for the day or two it took them to get to your place. The peaceful colony is not off to an auspicious start.
IMHO, the dwarf crays you have with your shrimp are far more appealing.
lf you keep a blue crayfish you keep it alone . Maybe not at first but eventually you keep it alone.If the Blue Crayfish was a jerk would the answer not be to keep it alone, or would this not be satisfactory for some reason I do not understand?
On their way to get me there would be enough internal squabbling that only one would arrive, dukes up and mad about something. There can only be one!Looking forward to hearing more about these new guys. If you wake up some morning and find that you have been eaten all the way up to the waist by a squirming, clacking mass of crayfish that is heading for your head...try to at least post an update here before you drop completely off the radar for good...