Survival of the fittest

[jcashion]

A little over a month ago, I wrote in about my crazy defensive Rick James Crawdad. Well, he eventually got eaten. So did his mate. When She was eaten, Oscar filtered all of her babies out of his gills. It was cool until they all disappeared. While doing a water change tonite, I pull out of biobag, and lo and behold, a 1" crawdad! Hanging on the bag! He'd been surviving of the stuff going through the filter, and growing super fast! He's in my 20 Gallon now to grow up before I stick him in the sump for my 220.

BTW, filled up my 220 tonite, FINALLY! and the internal everflow split a seam. No external leakage, but it means that, if the power ever went out, I'd drain about 80 gallons into my 50 gallon sump, so I had to drain the whole thing, and I'll redo the silicone on it tomorrow. Oh well, I'll update next week.

 

[benzjamin13]

That's cool. I've seen feeders and crayfish in sump filters before...I've always thought that they somehow escaped and ended up there. I never thought that they might've been put there on purpose.

 

[rook45]

that guy deserves to live

 

[stnwag0n]

i've always wanted to keep an oscar with a crayfish or two. how do you guys pull it off without the oscar eating the crayfish? or the crayfish eating the oscar if the oscar is still young? if the crayfish have caves, do the oscars make an effort to dig in there to get them?

 

[jcashion]

From what I understand, and have now seen, the oscar will usually kill the crawdad. That's why I'm going to put it in my sump, so I'll have a monster crawdad. They did live just fine with my black convicts, though, and actually dug their own caves. I thought they all got eaten because they had disappeared, but they had actually burrowed into the substrate! It was really cool. Now I have this baby who somehow survived out of about 200 siblings. Pretty cool. Any ideas for names for this bad boy? He deserves one.

 

[MarlboroMan]

This reminds me of my co workers story of his 60 gallon and his red bellies. He threw in some crayfish for his reds, and some of them got too big and lived for a while. One day he was cleaning out his canister and found 100s of tiny crayfish in the canister. He said it was one of the most disgusting things he's ever seen. But hey, free feeders.

 

[Chad55]

That will be pretty awsome. What is the purpose of the crawfish in sumps? Oh yea and I think a good name would be Leroy. HAHAHA

Chad

 

[ewurm]

From what I understand, and have now seen, the oscar will usually kill the crawdad. That's why I'm going to put it in my sump, so I'll have a monster crawdad. They did live just fine with my black convicts, though, and actually dug their own caves. I thought they all got eaten because they had disappeared, but they had actually burrowed into the substrate! It was really cool. Now I have this baby who somehow survived out of about 200 siblings. Pretty cool. Any ideas for names for this bad boy? He deserves one.

I would name him Rollins, after the guy who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell on him, and hiked back down the mountain.

 

[fishnutham]

I would name him Rollins, after the guy who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell on him, and hiked back down the mountain.

hes a tough mother that dude!!!

 

[ewurm]

Yeah, if I was in that situation, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't cut my arm off. I'm not sure what I would do...