Shellfish with Red Tail Payara?

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BradsRedTailPayara

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Hello…
I’m still in the research/equipment buying phase of monster fish ownership, but I have a question about invertebrate tank mates for Red Tail Payaras. I want to know if the payara will eat crayfish or some other shrimp if I put them in the tank.
 
It may come down to the individual fish, not the species as a whole. My armatus wont eat a crayfish, but he'll eat chopped up market shrimp. Payara are primary piscavors in the wild.
 
I agree with Ky. The fish would have to be hungry and desperate before it'd start picking off your inverts. If you do things right, especially with using the 'fishing method', you'll have it eating fillets and then pellets long before it ever starts trying to eat your inverts.
 
Chicxulub said:
I agree with Ky. The fish would have to be hungry and desperate before it'd start picking off your inverts. If you do things right, especially with using the 'fishing method', you'll have it eating fillets and then pellets long before it ever starts trying to eat your inverts.
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What is the fishing method?
 
If you had some small shrimp breeding in the tank with this sucker....you'd surely give a nice shock to all the dedicated shrimp keepers out there :P.

I think things like Red Cherry shrimp would be too small for the payara to pay attention too. You could probably get thousands of them with a good breeding population. Might I suggest getting some of the yellow variety of neocardinia? Colors would compliment well.
 
HybridHerp said:
If you had some small shrimp breeding in the tank with this sucker....you'd surely give a nice shock to all the dedicated shrimp keepers out there :P.

I think things like Red Cherry shrimp would be too small for the payara to pay attention too. You could probably get thousands of them with a good breeding population. Might I suggest getting some of the yellow variety of neocardinia? Colors would compliment well.
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Oh boy! I wouldn't want that many. I guess I need to do some serious research on shrimp and crayfish if I toss a few in the tank. For some odd reason I didn't think about them reproducing :duh:
 
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