Blue Lobster Mixed With Other Fish....

[sumner2k3]

Hi i have just bought a 3ft tank and have got 1 tiger oscar in it and 1 blue cichlid.. I want to buy a blue lobster for it and im just wondering if it would go in the tank orite with the other fish and if they would fight or any thing?

any one who has got a blue lobster in a tank with other fish or any one with any information if you could let me know whats what it would be great.

Thanks.

 

[sumner2k3]

can any one help me at all?

 

[noshybabs]

Hi i have just bought a 3ft tank and have got 1 tiger oscar in it and 1 blue cichlid.. I want to buy a blue lobster for it and im just wondering if it would go in the tank orite with the other fish and if they would fight or any thing?

any one who has got a blue lobster in a tank with other fish or any one with any information if you could let me know whats what it would be great.

Thanks.

I have no exprience of them my self, but i understand they will eat any fish they can catch and will undoubtedly turn your tank upside down

 

[sumner2k3]

what about plecos and catfish and things like that? will they eat those or try to eat them ?

 

[noshybabs]

what about plecos and catfish and things like that? will they eat those or try to eat them ?

If it can cath then, yes

THis should help

http/www.fishforums.net/Hammers-Cobalt-B...er-t128872.html

 

[mr williams]

what about plecos and catfish and things like that? will they eat those or try to eat them ?

I have kept blue lobster with other fish and i hated it. I can only speak from my experience but they pretty much constantly harras anything that lives on the bottom (pleco). They are also very good at escaping.

 

[prankster705]

3ft is to small for an oscar imo... depends on the tank though

 

[raptorrex]

Hi i have just bought a 3ft tank and have got 1 tiger oscar in it and 1 blue cichlid.. I want to buy a blue lobster for it and im just wondering if it would go in the tank orite with the other fish and if they would fight or any thing?

any one who has got a blue lobster in a tank with other fish or any one with any information if you could let me know whats what it would be great.

Thanks.

i think the cray would be in more trouble than the fish, in this tank. you say blue lobster, if that is what you got the link posted above is of no use to you, as it coveres the wront species of cary!!!!

unlike some of the above posters i do keep a cray, more than that i keep it in a community.

[size=-1]Cherax quadricarinatus, blue lobste or Australian redclaw cray fish, is a tropical cray, unlike the colbalt blue, which is a cool/cold water animal. cray can and do take fish, but mostly the ill and dead.

i have posted a thread on the system i use to add cray to a community tank, in the invertabrates section of this forum, this may be of some use to you.

i researched quite a lot before i went ahead. finding as you must, how ill informed most of the comments on general fish forums are. sadly most people dont even know the temps thes creatures need, never mind if they live with fish. and often have no idea what crayfish they are talking about.

this is a risky step, and one fraught with problems. but when it works, i find no more satisfying sight, or experience, than looking at my community.

for the record, my redclaw lives in peace with, plecos, corys, usd cat, feather fine synos, rams, silver dollars, rts, cae, pictus cats(who sleeps and rests outside the cray den) blue acare, firemouth, angels, gurami and silver sharks.

tanks space, well for a community like mine its 40ukg minimum, even on its own i would give a cray 30ukg minimum.

take my advice and look into these guys, as they really do offer an tank worth looking at.

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[noshybabs]

Fair enough, Like i said i have no experience keeping Crayfish, I would be inclined to believe they are carnivorous though

 

[raptorrex]

Fair enough, Like i said i have no experience keeping Crayfish, I would be inclined to believe they are carnivorous though

omnivorous actually, opportunist feeders is what they are. indeed when young Cray do lean towards meat/ protein, as they age they go more for veggie. some cray do indeed hunt and catch fish, however this is more a learnt action as opposed to a instinctual need.

Cray do often cause havoc in tanks the are added to. but this is more to do with the lack of knowledge of the keeper, than a fact for Cray. i do know one Redclaw that will escape its tank to get at fish!! and i know of two Redclaw, who live and breed in a community tank!!

Crayfish look mean, have claws and live under rocks, considering their looks it no surprise they have a bad name. but keeping them out of their correct environment, heat water type and such, only compounds the potential problems.

by no means all Cray, or Cray species can be kept in a community. but with care and observation, it can work.