Shamu the redtail got his first kill!

[slow302stang]

So shamu has been in the tank with this cray fish since I got him at a inch and a half. He's now almost 5 and him and his other catfish friend took it out! Don't mind the sand on his head. He's a dummy I knew the time was comming eventually. They had it in the cave I made and they were gaurding it!
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[HyPHyISM42o]

good job. more to come i hope. I use to put 6 to 8 crawfish in my tank at a time with my RTC's.

 

[slow302stang]

IV been trying to find a place that can sell me a bunch ffor cheap but I can't seem to find any. The lfs has them for 1.20$ a peice this one was bought to help clean the mess up didn't think he was big enough yet to eat it lol. Trying to find baby ones to bring his tail out more

 

[HyPHyISM42o]

google them you may find a distributor in your area. or go out to a creek and try to catch them yourself. I'm in Cali where we have lots of creeks and water areas to get fresh ones. my LFS says they cant order any right now so I may be out netting soon.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Perhaps the Cali ones are clean. I used to catch crayfish in upstate NY creeks for my cats. The crayfish were full of external parasites and I am sure internal too. I never dared to give them to my fish as is/live, always boiled them.

 

[slow302stang]

IV tryed catching cray fish but idk how. Is it hard to make a trap?