Electric Blue Crayfish

[JamieBailie]

Hi, I had an 'Electric Blue Crayfish' which seemed fine for the 3+ weeks I had it.

I have 1 female molly and 14 fry also in the tank, The mother of the fry developed white spot shortly after giving birth, I got white spot treatment, The guy at the LFS admitted he didn't know if it was safe to treat with the crayfish, But I didn't want to risk loosing the fry, As they are the only fish I have except the mother.

Neither the Molly or crayfish had been eating since I first noticed the white spot (The crayfish seemed normal otherwise)
He died yesterday. Do you think its coincidence that the crayfish died.. I tested everything and it was all fine, Infact the best i've seen it. Could the white spot treatment be messing with my test kits?

 

[iSnail]

Most parasite treatments contain Copper and Copper is lethal to crustaceans like Crays and shrimps and snails as well even in the tiniest amount. I'm sorry to say, it is quite likely that the medication has killed your Crayfish

 

[raptorrex]

you dont say what treatment you used. copper is deadly to Crayfish, and is a constituent of many ICK/white spot treatments, if your lfs was not able to tell you that, i would consider changing my lfs! i know we don't all know everything, but they should really know that.

do you have any pictures of your cray? Electric Blue, or P.allani, are illegal in the UK. but i guess you may have a Blue Lobster Australian Redclaw. they can be vivid blue too.

its sad your Cray died, but research and knowledge of your charges, is something all fish keepers should have!!!!

 

[JamieBailie]

I used eSHa Exit: http/www.eshalabs.com/exit.htm

It was the Australian redclaw blue crayfish.


In a nice way, I'm glad he passed away as i'm planning to get some bottom dwellers, And he liked to basically rip fish apart that stayed still for longer than 3 seconds.

 

[raptorrex]

lol yep, an angry Cray can make quite a mess!