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I found a good substitute that's inexpensive. Commercial crayfish pellets run ~$17.50 for a 50lb bag. I checked the ingredients of the feed aussie cray farmers use and found a mix I can use that works out to 1/2 the cost of comm cray pellets. I mix 50% sinking catfish pellets with 50% rabbit pellets. I pay ~$18 for 100lbs of this food from an Ag supply outlet. The crays get more animal protein and calcium from the catfish pellets and more than enough plant protein from the rabbit pellets. The comm crayfish food is designed for the smaller and slower growing US species. I get great production rates with the blend I came up with.
The only inverts I have right now are a banded coral shrimp, an emerald mithrax crab and about twenty unidentified hermit crabs.
I have a fiddler crab, countless snails and ghost shrimp, a land hermit crab (when his claws are out he measures about 4" across), and an africian giant millipede. I use to have hissing cockroaches, but they have passed on. Oh, I also have a rose haired tarantula and two cricket breeding tanks. I got tired of going to get crickets for my sudan plated lizard, 3 grass lizards, house gecko, two fire belly frogs and three african clawed frogs (not the dwarf variety) every other day.
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I've got a Cherax papuanus aka "Tiger Lobster" currently hangin out in my FM & Midas tank. He's a nasty lil ****er. Killed a couple of my mbuna and deformed one of my haps.
