missing crayfish....

[Gasha]

ok so i have a sand substrate tank with two large pieces of driftwood, a pike, a texas/FH type fish and a pleco... the main spots the crayfish hide are empty.... can they bury themselves under sand? i can't find them anywhere for the last 2 days... they were way smaller than my pike and texas but the texas ignores them(odd because she tries to murder and has murdered everything i put in there) and i don't think pike eat crayfish(could be wrong)

anyways im not going to search through the sand, just wondering if they do that... Thanks!

 

[robmcd]

It probably escaped the tank. You will smell it in a few days.

 

[Gasha]

smell two of them... how far can they crawl... i searched around the tank and nothing....

 

[robmcd]

Itll crawl til it dries out and dies. Then itll smell like all hell.

 

[knifegill]

a pike, a texas/FH type

They have become lunch.

 

[GhostShrimpMan]

Pretty big fish. As you said the cray was way smaller, and the fish was probably hungry.

 

[Gasha]

i haven't seen them on the pike but my texas does have some good size teeth(made me bleed).... i thought crayfish's shell's were tougher than that? o well cool looking snacks for my cichlids i guess... i just hope they aren't crawling around getting ready to die, that would be the worst! my house is clean and organized so i have no idea where they could crawl too if they did escape....

do crayfish bury though....?

 

[Chicklette]

One of your cichlids probably ate it. You have very aggressive fish in with them. One time I was cleaning my tank and i notices one crawling along the flood, they will scurry pretty far.

 

[Chrisplosion]

do crayfish bury though....?

Yes

 

[makoshoemaker]

sift through the sand and check the filter.