New Electric Blue Crayfish. Any advice?

[big E]

Please for the sake of the fish, DO NOT put a CHUCK NORRIS action figure in the tank! Those things are worse then mantis shrimp in a tank full of poor helpless fish!

 

[ewurm]

Your blue cray is Procambarus alleni. You're going to want to set up a separate tank for him. If not, either he will eat your fish (they're diligent and tireless hunters), loaches first, or the loaches and pictus will have at the cray when he's defenseless during his molt. If you have any live plants in your tank, take some good pictures of them now since he will consider all plants food. The shrimp pellets are half the nutrients he needs to be healthy and a fair souce of calcium. Get hime some standard rabbit pellets also. These crays are omnivores and require both animal and plant proteins. Rabbit pellets give him the plant material he needs in the least expensive way. Keep ALL copper away from his tank (including copper cowbells). He will also benefit from a couple of drops of iodine a week into his tank to aid in his molt.

Update: The Cray is doing great, survived a successful molting. Eats shrimp pellets and Hikari Carnivore. Leaves the fish alone, and they leave it alone. I also drop in Omega One Veggie discs. He has a couple of caves to hide in. Everything is going great so far.

 

[Redtail_Watcher]

keep that electric blue cray fish well feed! If not they will try and have the possiblity to kill and eat fishes that are 5times it's own size!!!(i have seen it happen too many times.)

 

[ewurm]

He eats plenty of the Carnivore pellets, he's a pig.

 

[mac]

I bought a blue crayfish at walmart and dropped him in my heavily planted 40b I had wisteria so thiick over the entire bottom that I did not see him for the first three months so I decided to take out the wisteria and start it over. well hes still alive and quite a bit bigger but he not blue anymore now he matches the color of the gravel. Is this common?
He is in there with all kinds of platys, guppies, swords, ottos, redtail sharks, synodontis, guarami, I did have 30 glass shrimp before I put him in but they are all gone now. but that is the only noticeable drop in population.

 

[ewurm]

That is funny. I am guessing either he isn't getting proper nutrition or it wasn't the same species.

 

[mac]

I cant see that as being the problem being that he has basicly an unlimited supply of nutrient rich food in the aquarium at all times not to mention the the food that I feed him which provides enough nutrition itself. Could be that somekind of dye was used somewhere in the supply chain. I dont know I will do some research and post what I find out back here.

 

[mac]

I think I'll go to walmart and ask a bunch of questions and when nobody can answer them I will chastize them for selling products that they know nothing about and how can they properly care for and advise people and how all that is irresponsible and stuff. Should be fun maybe I'll get a free one

 

[Redtail_Watcher]

I think I'll go to walmart and ask a bunch of questions and when nobody can answer them I will chastize them for selling products that they know nothing about and how can they properly care for and advise people and how all that is irresponsible and stuff. Should be fun maybe I'll get a free one

stupid!... anit it?

i done that so many times even the fish department management only knows much as an amauter! i seen them put 3dozen 1inch green tiger barbs with 5inch birchers before(Hello, don't they know they only eat meat???...)

 

[vicedretard]

i work at a fish store and im an amatuer and other workers come to me when customers have questions about fish...im normally honest and will tell people i dont know or to go to other stores who have a better quality of fish species that the customer is looking for. im not in it for money...i just love fish...