Crayfish Help.

[Mecha Chaos]

Hi, I'm new to this site but I've been keeping fish and frogs for well over five years now. But anyway my friend has a pet crayfish (she bought it at a store) and she recently gave him to me because she didn't want the little guy anymore. So I was wondering if I could put the crayfish in my 40 gallon tank, I have two 40 gallon filters that have short hoses. (I heard that they can climb out by the filter hoses if there to close to the bottom) He's about four inches long. I'm not sure as to what kind he is, but I could take a picture of him for you. I have him in a ten gallon holding tank at the moment. The 40 gallon has two guppies, red eyed tetra, flame tetra, a male gourami, two adult African dwarf frogs, some ghost shrimp (glass shrimp), a bushy nose pleco, a sail fin pleco and two calico fan tail's (there not permanent so don't go crazy on me, it's winter and I have to keep them inside) I was wondering if he would hurt the small fish in the tank? Thanks alot.

His claws have a bluish color to them and he has a redish orange color on the very tips of his claws.

 

[demasonisrule]

Keep him in the 10 gallon-its the perfect size. If you put him in the 40 gallon, all of your fish will be gone. The cray will eat any and all fish, along with any plants. Be sure he has lots of places to hide.

What are you feeding him? I feed mine fish flakes and blood worms. If you go for flakes hold them under water so they sink to the cray.

Good luck! remember, you can never do too much research.

P.S. I can't tell what species he is by the pics. sorry

 

[Mecha Chaos]

Keep him in the 10 gallon-its the perfect size. If you put him in the 40 gallon, all of your fish will be gone. The cray will eat any and all fish, along with any plants. Be sure he has lots of places to hide.

What are you feeding him? I feed mine fish flakes and blood worms. If you go for flakes hold them under water so they sink to the cray.

Good luck! remember, you can never do too much research.

P.S. I can't tell what species he is by the pics. sorry

It's okay I only have my webcam at the moment to take photo's of him, so there kinda bad. I put a lot of flat rocks in the tank and made two different caves, be he seams to be building his own fortress with the gravel in my tank. I'm feeding him freeze dried bloodworms. I let them sink in a bottle before feeding them to him. My dad raises night crawlers and I was wondering if I could feed him some?

 

[raptorrex]

Keep him in the 10 gallon-its the perfect size. If you put him in the 40 gallon, all of your fish will be gone. The cray will eat any and all fish, along with any plants. Be sure he has lots of places to hide.

What are you feeding him? I feed mine fish flakes and blood worms. If you go for flakes hold them under water so they sink to the cray.

Good luck! remember, you can never do too much research.

P.S. I can't tell what species he is by the pics. sorry

in fact. they need 20ukg minimum each. they are omnivorous, but need veg based diet. its, perhaps, best to avoid fish and cray, untill you have more experience. saying Cray eat fish, in essence, says i dont know what i am doing.

Keep him in the 10 gallon-its the perfect size. If you put him in the 40 gallon, all of your fish will be gone. The cray will eat any and all fish, along with any plants. Be sure he has lots of places to hide.

What are you feeding him? I feed mine fish flakes and blood worms. If you go for flakes hold them under water so they sink to the cray.

Good luck! remember, you can never do too much research.

P.S. I can't tell what species he is by the pics. sorry

It's okay I only have my webcam at the moment to take photo's of him, so there kinda bad. I put a lot of flat rocks in the tank and made two different caves, be he seams to be building his own fortress with the gravel in my tank. I'm feeding him freeze dried bloodworms. I let them sink in a bottle before feeding them to him. My dad raises night crawlers and I was wondering if I could feed him some?

you have an Australian Redclaw cray, from your description. it eats veg, for the main part. but the odd bit of protein/meat, is needed. blood worm pellets, flake, cooked chicken breast, bloodworme frozen and frozen daphnia, all go down well. but the main part needs to be veg, preferably a bit on the ripe side too. tinned peas, carrots well any tinned veg really go down well. (just check the salt content. if you feed fresh. cucumber, cougette, peas, potato carrot and fruit all work.





lol, one of the best bits, about Redclaws, it the fact they Aquascape, and do it very well. try just putting the gear you want in the tank in the middle. over the next few months the Cray will maneuver everything where they want it (it makes a great timelaps sequence).

as for escaping? they can and do. but most often because of bad water, or lack of space. but a good lid helps.