My blue crayfish has been living peacefully with 10 white cloud minnows and a bunch of ghost shrimp. They all seem to get along just fine. I actually think my crayfish enjoys the company lol
I recently re-scaped my 55gal and constructed a small grid with 2"pvc under my substrate. It has 3 entry points. Then I built layers of large rocks and driftwood as the hardscape. I focused on as many private / hidden spots as possible during the build. Then added 20 some species of live plants. Not sure if I want the blue or white craw yet. But planning to get 3 and hope for more! Mas research pending. Thanks for the vid man!
My crayfish tried to scrap with one of my goldfish that's about the same size and well now let's just say now he stays back in his rock and immediately runs back whenever the goldfish even looks in his direction
HI, Nice video. I breed yabbies (Blue crayfish) for my aquaponics. There are a few things I think you might want to reconsider. 1. That tank has WAY too many escape routs for your crayfish, up all the roots. branches etc. They will go walkabout and can last a long time out of water. 2. The crayfish we breed are fed 95% on Peas Corn and Carrots, High protien diets will just foul your water and isn't actually good for your crayfish. In the wild they mostly live on plant matter and the occasional dead insect/snail. Most of the streams, dams and rivers where they naturally live have very little fish life. 3. You are absolutely correct about them stressing and dying if they are too exposed. Yabbies or blue crays mostly live in Turbid water (Muddy water) They need a high Calcium content for shedding. A lot of the time this is provided by the Gypsum in the mud in the dam walls they make their holes in. 4. if you are keeping several try and make them all the one sex if you have multiple crays of different sex's they will fight. (You can tell the sex as males have little spurs on the base of their hind legs, this is to hold the females during mating). nice footage of them too, well done.
Eels, lucking loaches, larger plecs, sharks have always been ok with lobsters, crayfish and crabs. Also consider any top swimmer fish, because they'll rarely come near the bottom to get caught. Zebra dania are quick and stay at middle and top. Any none dwarf cichlids are tough and can easy escape a lobster. Oscars and parrot fish. I mentioned eels before.. most are super tuff and can shake off a crayfish easily. Keep your crayfish full and engaged with food. Mine loves a slice of banana. Drop in worms from the garden, blood worm and tinned or carton of shrimp (or thaw out some frozen shrimp) Maybe bits of meat but make sure it's not oilily and remove any left over so it doesn't polute the tank. Important thing is make sure they have something to much on that isn't your fish
I have electric blue crayfish three in a fourty that grew up together and keep breeding. They do not eat their babies or the cherry shrimp that somehow got in with them from hitchhiking had a tank full of shrimp and baby crayfish when they first bred. Now have too many but they don’t eat live shrimp. Any suggestions on finding homes for about 30?
I’ve got a dwarf Mexican with ghost shrimp and white clouds (and a couple nerites) in a 5gal. I’ve seen her yank on the shrimp’s tails before but hasn’t taken anyone down yet. But my thought process is the same: basically feeders (minnows and shrimp), and though I love them, I won’t be heartbroken if nature takes it’s course and I lose a couple sick fish/shrimp. Oh! Have some blue dream in there too and everyone is thriving!
My gourami and 2 crayfish get along quite well actually they eat the same food and the only bad thing that has happened is not bad at all the gourami have gotten haircuts
Right now I have guppies they avoid getting caught I also have a Chinese algae eater who is real fast and getting big and pea puffers just added doin fine
GRAPHIC: My blue cray chopped my 3" fancy goldfish to bits about 6 months into meeting each other. The goldfish would sleep near the bottom sometimes, i guess she trusted him because hes pretty chill.... Woke up to a tailless, faceless, guts hanging out orange thing at the top of the tank... And a crying girlfriend. Beware
I keep apistograms with my guppies or I would be over run with guppies. I have one tank and if the guppies breed freely it would be an ammonia disaster. Nature eats nature, I don’t understand people having moral issues with it
In nature, small fish can and often do swim to shallower water to evade larger predators. You can often see tiny fish at the very edge of ponds and streams in less than an inch of water. If they know there’s predators around and they can’t flee to shallower water, then they can get very stressed, living in terror. And that’s not good for the fish eating them either, since stress chemicals are very similar between species, so when you eat animals which were living stressed, you then have those stress chemicals and can get an uptick. Maybe not noticeable from one meal but who knows if you eat, for example, caged chicken and pig twice per day, six days per week, maybe the chemicals can build up. And your Apisto could be the same way, getting stressed out by eating guppies who were stockpiling stress chemicals by living in fear of him. Plus if you have a heater, he could crash into it while chasing a guppy, and if it breaks then it could electrocute the tank - or maybe just hurt himself crashing into stone or wood. In the wild, most of what Apistos eat is insects, which are easier kills. The occasional stray fish they eat is usually deformed, injured, sick, dying, lost, or stupid.
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My blue crayfish has been living peacefully with 10 white cloud minnows and a bunch of ghost shrimp. They all seem to get along just fine. I actually think my crayfish enjoys the company lol
Lucky. Mines a menace.
I recently re-scaped my 55gal and constructed a small grid with 2"pvc under my substrate. It has 3 entry points. Then I built layers of large rocks and driftwood as the hardscape. I focused on as many private / hidden spots as possible during the build. Then added 20 some species of live plants. Not sure if I want the blue or white craw yet. But planning to get 3 and hope for more! Mas research pending. Thanks for the vid man!
My crayfish tried to scrap with one of my goldfish that's about the same size and well now let's just say now he stays back in his rock and immediately runs back whenever the goldfish even looks in his direction
😅😅
HI, Nice video. I breed yabbies (Blue crayfish) for my aquaponics. There are a few things I think you might want to reconsider.
1. That tank has WAY too many escape routs for your crayfish, up all the roots. branches etc. They will go walkabout and can last a long time out of water.
2. The crayfish we breed are fed 95% on Peas Corn and Carrots, High protien diets will just foul your water and isn't actually good for your crayfish. In the wild they mostly live on plant matter and the occasional dead insect/snail. Most of the streams, dams and rivers where they naturally live have very little fish life.
3. You are absolutely correct about them stressing and dying if they are too exposed. Yabbies or blue crays mostly live in Turbid water (Muddy water) They need a high Calcium content for shedding. A lot of the time this is provided by the Gypsum in the mud in the dam walls they make their holes in.
4. if you are keeping several try and make them all the one sex if you have multiple crays of different sex's they will fight. (You can tell the sex as males have little spurs on the base of their hind legs, this is to hold the females during mating).
nice footage of them too, well done.
Do you think a black big eyed gold fish and a blue crayfish can live together
Thank you so much
Eels, lucking loaches, larger plecs, sharks have always been ok with lobsters, crayfish and crabs.
Also consider any top swimmer fish, because they'll rarely come near the bottom to get caught.
Zebra dania are quick and stay at middle and top.
Any none dwarf cichlids are tough and can easy escape a lobster.
Oscars and parrot fish.
I mentioned eels before.. most are super tuff and can shake off a crayfish easily.
Keep your crayfish full and engaged with food.
Mine loves a slice of banana.
Drop in worms from the garden, blood worm and tinned or carton of shrimp (or thaw out some frozen shrimp)
Maybe bits of meat but make sure it's not oilily and remove any left over so it doesn't polute the tank.
Important thing is make sure they have something to much on that isn't your fish
I keep 2 crayfish with 2 mystery snails, 3 opalin gourami for 6 months now they are doing great
I have tetras, bala sharks, guppies, and red belly pacus in my tank with my blue lobster they all get along fine
Even when I brought my electric blue crayfish it was at the store in a tank with gold fish
+Más Palmer Aquatics tengo botia payaso, botia yoyo, tambien, otocincus y un plecostomus. Podran vivir los cangrejos con ellos?
Red worms works great for my crayfish for food
My crayfish keep having white fungus on them, and they die after a few days. Any advice on my tank and how to remove it?
Not tank mates, but snack mates.
I have my blue cray with 2 rams and 4 angels but i honestly neever see her why does she not come out???
I have electric blue crayfish three in a fourty that grew up together and keep breeding. They do not eat their babies or the cherry shrimp that somehow got in with them from hitchhiking had a tank full of shrimp and baby crayfish when they first bred. Now have too many but they don’t eat live shrimp. Any suggestions on finding homes for about 30?
I’ve got a dwarf Mexican with ghost shrimp and white clouds (and a couple nerites) in a 5gal. I’ve seen her yank on the shrimp’s tails before but hasn’t taken anyone down yet. But my thought process is the same: basically feeders (minnows and shrimp), and though I love them, I won’t be heartbroken if nature takes it’s course and I lose a couple sick fish/shrimp. Oh! Have some blue dream in there too and everyone is thriving!
My blue crayfish love eating red wiggler earthworms that I buy from the bait shop!
I have mine with a pearl gourami, 8 Buenos Aires tetras and 12 black neon tetras (55 gallon)
A good tank mate for a crayfish is a small baby x-ray fish
Can I keep 3 spot gouramis with electric blue crayfish??
I’ve got my crayfish with white cloud mountain minnows.
I just got an electric blue crayfish female and it is awesome
I’ve kept rummy nose neons with cray
Do not keep goldfish with crayfish I did that with my first crayfish and the goldfish ate the crayfish’s antenna
My gourami and 2 crayfish get along quite well actually they eat the same food and the only bad thing that has happened is not bad at all the gourami have gotten haircuts
Awesome Chris😊 my name is Chris
Right now I have guppies they avoid getting caught I also have a Chinese algae eater who is real fast and getting big and pea puffers just added doin fine
flowerhorn with crayfish?
Absolutely not 😂
Can you keep one in a 19 gallon biorb
yes
Do crayfish breathe air
GRAPHIC:
My blue cray chopped my 3" fancy goldfish to bits about 6 months into meeting each other. The goldfish would sleep near the bottom sometimes, i guess she trusted him because hes pretty chill.... Woke up to a tailless, faceless, guts hanging out orange thing at the top of the tank... And a crying girlfriend. Beware
I just put 3 little Mexican red crayfish with 2 bigger neon red crayfish.
How did the dwarfs do with the regular ones?
I keep apistograms with my guppies or I would be over run with guppies.
I have one tank and if the guppies breed freely it would be an ammonia disaster.
Nature eats nature, I don’t understand people having moral issues with it
In nature, small fish can and often do swim to shallower water to evade larger predators. You can often see tiny fish at the very edge of ponds and streams in less than an inch of water. If they know there’s predators around and they can’t flee to shallower water, then they can get very stressed, living in terror.
And that’s not good for the fish eating them either, since stress chemicals are very similar between species, so when you eat animals which were living stressed, you then have those stress chemicals and can get an uptick. Maybe not noticeable from one meal but who knows if you eat, for example, caged chicken and pig twice per day, six days per week, maybe the chemicals can build up. And your Apisto could be the same way, getting stressed out by eating guppies who were stockpiling stress chemicals by living in fear of him.
Plus if you have a heater, he could crash into it while chasing a guppy, and if it breaks then it could electrocute the tank - or maybe just hurt himself crashing into stone or wood. In the wild, most of what Apistos eat is insects, which are easier kills. The occasional stray fish they eat is usually deformed, injured, sick, dying, lost, or stupid.
They eat anything
I saw that thing in my bedroom
My crayfish killed everyone lmfao
I keep my blue lobster in with guppies. 👍
Koi eat crayfish.