New love for crays!
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fishy12;4771996; said:
Should be fine. Crays might move them around, but they won't shred or eat them.
Awesome looking setup. I JUST brought home my first crazy...impulse buy. Its nothing special, just your average brown crayfish, probably a NC native. I'm hoping he doesn't work a number on my stock, and I'm currently trying to attach anubias to my driftwood, so maybe he'll leave that alone, we'll see. No great loss if he's not good with the plants, but he'll be making a quick exit (or entrance to my jacks stomach, whatevers appropriate) if he starts damaging my fish.
I agree, your setup looks good, and a nice variety on the crays. 
Your driftwood pieces are pretty cool.
Not sure if different crays have different tastes. My Marbled Crays didn't like anubias leaves or stems, but they kept digging them up to eat the roots. With fish, it's a random chance. If the fish are fast and don't sleep on the bottom, and the cray is kept well fed (feed right before 'lights out'), you can improve the odds of the cray leaving them alone. The chance of an accident will always be there though.
Your driftwood pieces are pretty cool.Moloch;4780671; said:
Not sure if different crays have different tastes. My Marbled Crays didn't like anubias leaves or stems, but they kept digging them up to eat the roots. With fish, it's a random chance. If the fish are fast and don't sleep on the bottom, and the cray is kept well fed (feed right before 'lights out'), you can improve the odds of the cray leaving them alone. The chance of an accident will always be there though.
I leave a light on my cray tank 12 hours a day and the crays eat the hair algae that grows and the nematodes that grow in it.
Dark Jester;4780953; said:I agree, your setup looks good, and a nice variety on the crays.
Not sure if different crays have different tastes. My Marbled Crays didn't like anubias leaves or stems, but they kept digging them up to eat the roots. With fish, it's a random chance. If the fish are fast and don't sleep on the bottom, and the cray is kept well fed (feed right before 'lights out'), you can improve the odds of the cray leaving them alone. The chance of an accident will always be there though.
Well, luckily the tank is MOSTLY nocturnal...They all stay pretty active throughout the day, but they're all nocturnal by nature. The pictus cat & the ctenopoma are probably the only two I'd be worried about, but the pictus is ballsy & quick and the ctenopoma doesn't seem to spend a whole lot of time on the bottom. I think everything will be alright
I keep a couple P. Clarkii and a couple very large Cambarus Coosae and successfully keep a school of minnows and 4 creek chubs healthy and active. (Sometimes a minnow goes missing) One of the Coosae's is in berry. I'm cycling a 10 gallon to put her in until the babies are born...
Heh...so everything has been pretty much fine in my tank...few small scuffles here & there with the fish figuring out what this cray thing is. But tonight around feeding time I guess the cray got a bit too adventurous and lost a fight to one of my fish. Not sure if it was my JD or my bichir, but I found the cray laying on its back twitching with one of its eyes pretty much busted out & missing an antenna. I prodded him with a net and he's now hanging out in my fake plant....we'll see if he recovers or not.
Guess I didn't need to worry about my fish after all
Guess I didn't need to worry about my fish after all
