Freshwater Crayfish

[The Noob Fish Shepherd]

Anyone know if you can keep any species of crayfish or anything similar that would look out of place in a community tank?

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I suspect it depends on whether you like the look of fish skeletons littering the tank bottom

 

[SlyPolak]

They will eat anything they can catch, even if you feed them all the time they will kill it , munch for a second and then you have a dead fish.

 

[england]

as of yet my bluey has yet to eaten his tank mates.....
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/235907-australian-red-claw-crayfish/


shares his tank with a senegal birchir/reed fish/spiney eel/colombian tetra and a yellow lab cichlid,,,very odd mix but actually works very well..lol....it is a chance iam taking but...food preference is bottom feeder pellets

 

[england]

oh yeah, iam not saying it will work,just as of yet ive had no issues

 

[Tomcat]

WOW! he's beautiful!

my Crayfish Arnie never managed to catch any of his fishy friends, he was very inquisitive, always there if something was going on, however this mixed with his inability to look more than a millisecond into the future lead to his demise. he climbed out of the tank in the middle of the night in mid winter when the house was freezing cold without any kind of plan on how to get back in. surviving the 4ft fall from the tank he wandered under the sofa where i discovered him the next morning barely alive. i replaced him into the tank but he passed on a few hours later. my tank has no lid and he would be easily strong enough to lift a cover, so while i want another i wont risk it until i get a new tank with a proper lid.

 

[didz04]

as of yet my bluey has yet to eaten his tank mates.....
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/235907-australian-red-claw-crayfish/


shares his tank with a senegal birchir/reed fish/spiney eel/colombian tetra and a yellow lab cichlid,,,very odd mix but actually works very well..lol....it is a chance iam taking but...food preference is bottom feeder pellets

Wow nelly how big is that! his claws are the same length of his body lol, nice species. Yeah I had a crayfish in my community until I moved him to my spare 30l because of the sudden missing of 4 fish. He was really nice a bright blue crayfish but just too dangerous and even in my 30l he kept molting and made the tank reek in my bedroom. Worst ever smell
but would love to get 1 one day my brother loved him to and was suggesting it for my cichlid tank. If you want to buy one then get sand as a substrate as it loves to dig by pushing the sand with its claws looks wicked.

 

[didz04]

WOW! he's beautiful!

my Crayfish Arnie never managed to catch any of his fishy friends, he was very inquisitive, always there if something was going on, however this mixed with his inability to look more than a millisecond into the future lead to his demise. he climbed out of the tank in the middle of the night in mid winter when the house was freezing cold without any kind of plan on how to get back in. surviving the 4ft fall from the tank he wandered under the sofa where i discovered him the next morning barely alive. i replaced him into the tank but he passed on a few hours later. my tank has no lid and he would be easily strong enough to lift a cover, so while i want another i wont risk it until i get a new tank with a proper lid.

Hmm they can escape?? well mine was small so probably couldn't get out of the 30l which didn't also have a lid, but when I caught him with the net to see if he can walk out of the water instead he came out all flimsy like he couldn't move at all. The best escape artist is a red claw crab. I don't know how they do it but my dad found mine near the door leading to the outside garden, I guess he knew where the exit was to the house lol. My dad was going to kill it because they looks just like a spider when they come out of the tank since they don't get that colourful red on their claws, but then he realized it could be the crab. The tank is in my living room so it would be a long walk to the front door. He shouted me and asked is that the crab and I just thought **** lol how did you get there . My grandma has a bed in the same living room because she just had a stroke and she can't walk so carers and nurse come in to treat her everyday and keep the bed sheets clean, and I'm telling you she was really scared being in that room once I told her, bless her, but who wouldn't I mean sleeping there and next morning you have a crab on your face lol. She definitely felt more releaved when we found it later that day. Really tricky them crabs.

 

[The Noob Fish Shepherd]

Dang, I always thought Crayfish were scavengers. I was hoping to put one in with Zebra Loaches, Keyhole Cichlids, Glass Catfishes and Bristlenose Plecos but I can foresee the gentle glass guys getting beaten up on...

Out of curiousity, how big do Freshwater Crayfishes grow to?? I can't find siht about them on the internets

 

[The Noob Fish Shepherd]

What about Shrimp? They look too flimsy to kill anything