Crayfish Help

My sister has a 2 inch crayfish in a 5 gallon tank and i want to move it into a 10 gallon tank. What would it eat? could he live with live plants? are there any catfish that can live with it?

Thanks for your help



Dillon

 

yes they can live with live plants and i think they would eat shrimp pellets and brine shrimp

 

some crayfish I find rather agressive and i wouldnt suggest getting any kind of fish :mrgreen:

 

hi i own breed and raise crayfish and if u put them in a tank w/ live plants more then likely they will eat it if they cant find anything else... crayfish will eat whatever they can catch or u feed them... i feed mine regular fish food live plants and grass shrimp and dead fish they love decaying matter......as far as the fish go u can put them w/ almost any kind of fish and they shouldnt eat the fish as long as u feed them regualraly....i have a 10 gallon tank w one in it now along w/ some guppies and my cray dont even touch my fish... so u should be fine as long as u dont 4get to feed them...

 

i have some baby cichlids in the 10 gallon and when i put the crayfish in, they attacked it. what can i do to have the crawfish be active and not get killed?

 

crayfish can notbe kept with other fish, cray fish or plants unless you want to feed them. I keep my crays in 15g tanks with good rockwork and filteration. they also like their own caves.

 

i keep 2 crays in my 30 gal tank along w/ fish and plants and they do not mess w/ each other or do they mess w/ the plants or fish sooo.....

 

FMgurl43
Since you have crayfish I thought I would ask you a few questions, First have you ever kept a crayfish and a pleco in the same tank? Would the crayfish attack/kill the pleco? I ask this beacuse I want to put a crayfish in my 45gal tank with my firemouths and 5 inch long pleco.

 

a crayfish will kill anything that can fit in its claws. any bottom dwellers may get killed. See, I have done my homework! :mrgreen:

 

yes in one of our ponds we have them together and they r still doing fine...

 

How big is the pleco though.....?

 

well the pleco is a lil bigger then the crayfish not by much but im guessing the cray is maybe bout 3 in. and id say the the pleco is maybe 3.5 but thats just guessing...

 

wish my cray would be like that.