Fishnewbie;4659700; said:
No, and he spreads a lot of false information to boost sales. He's a real ass, too.
Buy from people on MFK or AC, you'll get better prices, more truthful information and a safer online experience.
New Marbled Cray tank :)
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No, and he spreads a lot of false information to boost sales. He's a real ass, too.
Buy from people on MFK or AC, you'll get better prices, more truthful information and a safer online experience.
I'm still gonna do the experiment, and will post up the results if you guys want. I'm just not really gonna be active here anymore. This is the only thread I'm still subscribed to, and I won't be posting in any others. Whole thing made me realize I'd rather be actually watching my fish than talking about fish online.
Sorry for killing the pics, but I was pretty pissed at the time. I wiped everything personal off the site. Not even worth getting into exactly what was said, who was involved, or what thread it was. It won't solve anything and might just end up jading someone else. The thread hit like 1500 views in about 3 hours though.
Was pretty popular til the mods stepped in and deleted everything. Actually by the time they did that, the thread had been pretty much dead for around 45 minutes. Everyone had moved on. Then they came in guns blazing and laying down the 'law'. Bleh.
I'll repost some of the pics of the tank this week probably, and update this thread with the experiment results. I'm not sure the first berried cray has enough eggs to support the experiment, we'll see in around 10 days though. Only looks like it's carrying 10 or 15 eggs. Ideally I want 16 babies (2 per jar), but I guess I could just do 1 cray per jar and get by with 8 total. Another cray berried a few days ago too, and it's completely stuffed with probably 40+ eggs. A couple others are starting to spend their time hiding and not eating as well, so I'm looking for them to berry in the next couple days. Another month and I'll have more crays than I know what to do with. Well, not really, my 7" Jack Dempsey is hungry, and convict fry just aren't cutting it anymore.
On a side note, I'm looking at getting a 180g and filling it with a bunch of exodons (like 50+). That should be fun. Been researching the crap out of them the last week and I'm hooked. Will probably try my hand at breeding them too. My wife is on board with it as well, cause she likes the active schooling fish more than the others. Pictus Cats were her faves so far. She should love Exodons.
And yeah, I'd stay away from marbledcrayfish.com. He may have been the first guy to import them into the country, but they're common enough now to not be worth the crazy prices he charges. I haven't seen any 'look-alike' marbled crays out there. Doesn't mean they don't exist, but if you get some and they look like other pics of marbled crays around the net, it's a safe bet they're the real deal. Buy from people here or on aquabid and you'll save quite a bit of money as opposed to ordering from marbledcrayfish.com. His aren't any different than the ones you will get elsewhere, no matter what he wants to try and make you think.
Sorry for killing the pics, but I was pretty pissed at the time. I wiped everything personal off the site. Not even worth getting into exactly what was said, who was involved, or what thread it was. It won't solve anything and might just end up jading someone else. The thread hit like 1500 views in about 3 hours though.
Was pretty popular til the mods stepped in and deleted everything. Actually by the time they did that, the thread had been pretty much dead for around 45 minutes. Everyone had moved on. Then they came in guns blazing and laying down the 'law'. Bleh.I'll repost some of the pics of the tank this week probably, and update this thread with the experiment results. I'm not sure the first berried cray has enough eggs to support the experiment, we'll see in around 10 days though. Only looks like it's carrying 10 or 15 eggs. Ideally I want 16 babies (2 per jar), but I guess I could just do 1 cray per jar and get by with 8 total. Another cray berried a few days ago too, and it's completely stuffed with probably 40+ eggs. A couple others are starting to spend their time hiding and not eating as well, so I'm looking for them to berry in the next couple days. Another month and I'll have more crays than I know what to do with. Well, not really, my 7" Jack Dempsey is hungry, and convict fry just aren't cutting it anymore.
On a side note, I'm looking at getting a 180g and filling it with a bunch of exodons (like 50+). That should be fun. Been researching the crap out of them the last week and I'm hooked. Will probably try my hand at breeding them too. My wife is on board with it as well, cause she likes the active schooling fish more than the others. Pictus Cats were her faves so far. She should love Exodons.
And yeah, I'd stay away from marbledcrayfish.com. He may have been the first guy to import them into the country, but they're common enough now to not be worth the crazy prices he charges. I haven't seen any 'look-alike' marbled crays out there. Doesn't mean they don't exist, but if you get some and they look like other pics of marbled crays around the net, it's a safe bet they're the real deal. Buy from people here or on aquabid and you'll save quite a bit of money as opposed to ordering from marbledcrayfish.com. His aren't any different than the ones you will get elsewhere, no matter what he wants to try and make you think.
Moved the crays and guppies into a 55G last night. Will get some pics of that up tonight. With them starting to berry, I didn't think the 20L was gonna have enough of a footprint for all of them. I put some of the rockwork back in too. PVC caves are functional, but they really do look ugly. 
Lot more water flow in the 55 and I have a canister that I can use the output hose on to flush the rocks out once a week to keep food and detritus from rotting so it should work out fine. Will probably expand the rockwork a bit too over the next week.
Found out yesterday that my crays might not have been the ones responsible for all of the guppy deaths so far. I know the crays ate at least 2 (found pieces of guppy skeletons), but 8 had gone missing from the cray tank so far. My wife caught my 3 year old netting guppies out and feeding them to my Jack Dempsey yesterday. Had me curious cause I put a couple Cory cats in with the crays to stir up the substrate a bit and the crays don't bother them at all. Good thing is in the 55G I can add more guppies as well. Get a lot of genetic diversity in there and see what shows up in the offspring. Should be a colorful tank.
Lot more water flow in the 55 and I have a canister that I can use the output hose on to flush the rocks out once a week to keep food and detritus from rotting so it should work out fine. Will probably expand the rockwork a bit too over the next week.Found out yesterday that my crays might not have been the ones responsible for all of the guppy deaths so far. I know the crays ate at least 2 (found pieces of guppy skeletons), but 8 had gone missing from the cray tank so far. My wife caught my 3 year old netting guppies out and feeding them to my Jack Dempsey yesterday.
Had me curious cause I put a couple Cory cats in with the crays to stir up the substrate a bit and the crays don't bother them at all. Good thing is in the 55G I can add more guppies as well. Get a lot of genetic diversity in there and see what shows up in the offspring. Should be a colorful tank.
Sorry 'bout the delay. Same 3 Year old mentioned previously had 'misplaced' the camera for a few days.
Here's some pics of the new 55g. Yeah, I know I still need a background for it.
Whole tank:
Left:
Right:
Random Shots:
Only pic I could get of one of the 3 Crays holding eggs, and you can't even see the eggs. They've all buried themselves behind sand walls, 2 in the rocks and 1 under the mopani wood.
Tank Inhabitants:
7x Marbled Crayfish (3 Berried currently)
4x Peppered Cory Cat
2x Rubberlip Pleco
6x Adult Guppy
5x Juvie Guppy
Everyone getting along pretty well so far. The green stuff is just a bunch of Java Moss. Got some Frogbit floating on top too, which should fill in most of the surface in a month or two. First cray babies should be hatching any day now.
Here's some pics of the new 55g. Yeah, I know I still need a background for it.
Whole tank:
Left:
Right:
Random Shots:
Only pic I could get of one of the 3 Crays holding eggs, and you can't even see the eggs. They've all buried themselves behind sand walls, 2 in the rocks and 1 under the mopani wood.
Tank Inhabitants:
7x Marbled Crayfish (3 Berried currently)
4x Peppered Cory Cat
2x Rubberlip Pleco
6x Adult Guppy
5x Juvie Guppy
Everyone getting along pretty well so far. The green stuff is just a bunch of Java Moss. Got some Frogbit floating on top too, which should fill in most of the surface in a month or two. First cray babies should be hatching any day now.
No pics but I just found out that cray babies turned blue in my extremely tannic native tank. It was buffered so the pH shouldn't have dropped much. I didn't get really picky about it to be honest. It was mostly a bunch of worms and inverts so I wasn't too worried on the whole about water quality. Anyway, I threw a bunch of crays in there on their first molt and now they are all blue while the ones in my clearwater downstairs are mostly red. There are a couple of blue ones in the original tank, but all the ones in the tannic tank have turned blue. And are now fish snacks.
Would make sense and hold with the theory. Tannic tanks typically have extremely soft water. Soft Water = Blue according to the myth.
I wonder if PH would also play a role in the color change. Will probably test that somehow as well after the initial experiment.
I wonder if PH would also play a role in the color change. Will probably test that somehow as well after the initial experiment.
