Betta And Cray Fish?

[RainyES]

I was wondering if you could keep a betta and a small (meaning 1-2 inches or maybe a little smaller) cray fish together?

 

[Kairi]

i don't think so... don't crawdads (crawfish, cray fish) eat fish? i know they pinch pretty hard... might be bad for a bettas fins.

 

[zoekin8yg]

Like said the cray fish will at the least nip the fins, so no I wouldnt

 

[SoCalMom]

No

Cray fish get way too big. Betta wouldn't have a chance against those claws

I've seen some pretty big pincers (pinchers?) on cray fish

 

[RainyES]

Ok thanks, now I can go tell my brother 'I told your so!' ;p

 

[SoCalMom]

Ok thanks, now I can go tell my brother 'I told your so!' ;p

Don't you just love being right?

 

[raptorrex]

Ok thanks, now I can go tell my brother 'I told your so!' ;p

Don't you just love being right?

guess he may find out some day, but not today!
do a search on in the invertibrate section, there are a few members who keep Cray in communitys, not all Cray are killers. remember though only one Cray is said to be truly tropical. though the mexicam dwarf Cray is said to be a really good community critter, and will keep quite well in tropical tanks.

i dont keep bettas, but thought they were better in a small tank. Cray will need a 10ukg min.

 

[SoCalMom]

Ok thanks, now I can go tell my brother 'I told your so!' ;p

Don't you just love being right?

guess he may find out some day, but not today!
do a search on in the invertibrate section, there are a few members who keep Cray in communitys, not all Cray are killers. remember though only one Cray is said to be truly tropical. though the mexicam dwarf Cray is said to be a really good community critter, and will keep quite well in tropical tanks.

i dont keep bettas, but thought they were better in a small tank. Cray will need a 10ukg min.

Well bettas aren't community fish. So the crayfish might be more brazen in a one on one setting. No fish is better in a small tank...most people just keep them in 5 gal or smaller

All crayfish may not be killers, but why take that chance?

 

[RainyES]

Yeah, It's always nice being oldest and right

My brother has been a Reptile/Amphibian freak ever since he was 2 years old, he's 15 now.

But the only reason he wants to put the crayfish in his betta tank is cause we live on a river and all the baby cray fish are in the yard, in the grass and they are just wondering around and sometimes the birds eat them
If he did have them in the tank, as they get bigger he would take them out and put them in a bigger tank.

Oh yea, he keeps his betta in a 7 or 8US gallon weird shaped tank.
Inside he has sand as a substrate and Anacharis plants growing out of the sand everywhere.

 

[Dibari]

Definitely a no from me on the crayfish.

 

[raptorrex]

All crayfish may not be killers, but why take that chance?

good point. but if people dont try things, our hobby would never change.
i feel a Betta and Cray would not fit so well, but more for environment reasons, than danger to the Betta. indeed the Cray may well be in danger when it moults.
i know US variants of the Cray, are known to be aggressive, and fish killers, that said we have a member here who keeps a [size=-1]Procambarus clarki happily in a community. [/size]

wild caught Cray, unless caught in Australia, are unlikely to do well in a heated tank.