The MAGICAL LIFE of our DWARF ORANGE CRAYFISH (CPO)

We built a little shallow tank for some lovely CPO 'lobsters'!

Previous build in a 60-F (shallow) tank

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AQUARIUM SPECS

AQUARIUM
Green Aqua Opti-White (Clear Glass) Aquarium 60-F - 29 liters, 60x30x16 cm

AQUARIUM FILTRATION
ADA SuperJet ES 600 external filter

AQUARIUM LIGHTING
Chihiros RGB Vivid 2 Mini LED light - black

CO2
Pressurized CO2 system with a diffuser

SUBSTRATE
ADA La Plata Sand
ADA Aqua Gravel

AQUARIUM DECORATION
0.5kg Iron wood
6kg Lava stone

OTHER ACCESSORIES
Green Aqua liquid superglue

AQUATIC PLANTS
5x Bucephalandra sp. 'Mini Red'
1x Anubias sp. 'Mini Coin'
1x Anubias nana 'Gold'
4x Anubias nana 'Bonsai'
2x Microsorum pteropus 'Trident'
4x Cryptocoryne parva
1x Cryptocoryne lutea 'Hobbit'

FISH
Mexican Dwarf Crayfish (Cambarellus patzcuarensis var. Orange)

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
00:52 Planning a Crayfish tank
02:15 Hardscape
06:39 Planting
08:46 CPO Crash Course
10:37 Final Look

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CREW
Camera Operators: Csaba Viczián, Miki Bacskai, Áron Tamaskó
Post-Production: Péter Hajdu, Áron Tamaskó
Social media: Viktor Lantos
Subtitles: Tamás Demeter
Graphics, editing, and color grading made in DaVinci Resolve Studio 17

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MUSIC LICENSED THROUGH EPIDEMIC SOUND

#greenaqua #crayfish #cpo

[Aquagold.goldysingh]

Make the next vampire crab one. Love to see more videos like this.

[siddharthrm]

Oh yea, these guys are a treat to any planted tank/ nano tank . I've been breeding these guys for about 4 months now and that's been relatively easy too . Best thing about these guys compared to the normal crays is that they could have a scrimmage amongst themselves and will walk away without having their claw or limb cut off whilst at it . Any way with that being said, here how I breed them for anyone who's interested :-
So I went to my local fish store and got a hold of a trio of em . I had them in a relatively small tank ( a 12 by 6 by 6 ) in order to up the chances of the male (s) mating with the female (s ) and it turned out that I had 2 males and 1 female . After adding them in I noticed just 2 crays out with one not to be seen often a week after I got them . I picked up the piece of driftwood that served as a hideout for them and fair enough I notice a female carrying eggs . I got the other two crays out leaving the momma with the tank to herself . What I suggest is providing the brooding cray with just a single hideout because if you provide too many, the cray's gonna hide most of the time as they feel very vulnerable with eggs under their swimmerets . Next as for substrate use a black or light brown sand, fine sand . This makes it easier for the newborn crays to move around once born and provides a good contrast between the baby crays and the sand, making it easier for you to spot them as well . Filtration wise, its best to use a sponge filter hooked up to an air pump . Now, when it comes to taking care of the momma, feed her sinking pellets of your choice just right out of her cave, dropped the pellets such that they fall just outside the entrance of her cave . Any un eaten food must be removed after 4 hours . You may change 50% of her tank's water every week . Repeat these steps for around 2 to 3 weeks and you'll one day find baby crays peppered all over the tank .
Now that your breeding's been successful, remove the momma and add her into another tank and have the babies in a tank to themselves . I prefer feeding the babies sinking food that's of the granular type because this way each cray can grab a piece for itself and so they don't have to have a scrimmage over food during feeding time but any sort of sinking pellets will do. I'd say having snails in the tank housing can be beneficial as any un eaten food that gets leftover by the crays gets eaten by the snails . When it comes to water changes now, use the air line tubing you use to connect air pumps to sponge filters as a siphon as it has less suction power compared to the normal siphon which reduces the chance of a cray getting sucked in it .
I've not mentioned anything about water temperature as I live in India ( Karnataka ) and my tanks are usually of the same temperature to the weather, they get a little colder during the monsoon season but that's fine . See what temperature works best for you accordingly is what I have to say . And yes, better have them all the males and females picked out and housed in separate tanks as they'll start breeding fairly quick . I didn't and I once had 5 brooding females at once .
Feel free to ask me any questions, cheers !

[ТамараДавидова-ув]

nice to see a non-standard aquarium with a low water level, love this. And CPO too)

[Edgeofhumansoul]

The end result is very good for me, beautiful ...

[fluffy]

Love this species spotlight series. Would love more of these

[freddyherman]

Beautiful tank! Id love to see a planted axolotl tank next.

[jayantadutta]

Nice 👍. Later by the passage of time nature will take its beautiful form.👌

[vlasisvstrom]

Nice minimal build! (Bucephalandra can live fully emersed).

[stigblue]

great to see you finally embracing my own little thing in the hobby I've got the blue dwarf crayfish and been breeding them for 3 years so far. Absolutely lovely creatures to have in your scape

[OlegPalyvoda]

Thanks for the nice video. These guys are next in line to be put in my tank. I currently have Cambarellus puer in a small tank - they are great dudes. A little smaller than Mexican and live peacefully with everybody. I highly recommend them.
Please do more videos about unusual inhabitants that can actually live perfectly in an aquascape.

[jenpink]

I really like this! Thank you so much for sharing something new and interesting. The tank looks pretty and your little Cray fish are very cute 😊

[edwardpinner]

Thank you and the music was wonderful.

[darrenderousse]

Looks awesome Balazs! Impressive for ot only taking less than a hour! Cpo are very interesting! My kids would love a tank like that! Keep up the great content! Happy new year Green aqua family!

[ssv]

Балаш, поначалу, мне показалось, что будет скучно)) Но потом...Очень красиво, в тоже время все просто))

[dazzac]

Great stuff, as always. Green Aqua production quality is fantastic.

[horsenut]

I love aquascape and have 3 tanks at home, but never have interest for shallow tank before watching Green Aqua.. now I'd like to saving some of money for build one.. great videos, great inspiring.. good job!

[philcarlino]

Very nice video as always. CPO's are such cool little critters, and they look great in this style of aquarium. Keep up the great work.

[sharlotteadams]

Every year at my son’s High School the senior class gets together and gifts the school with something. My son’s senior class decided to go out with a bang and gift a 125 gallon aquarium set up to the special needs children’s building. Of course my son being him, said hey my mom is great at setting up planted aquariums, so I have been asked to set it up, scape and plant it. I really don’t think they realize just how expensive it can be for a planted aquarium. Any suggestions on how to do an amazing scape on a budget?

[GarwithAquagardening]

Bucephalandra work well outside the water from my experience.

[pamelapilling]

Looks lovely. I just saw these at April's Aquariums in Vancouver BC. Now I know what to plan on for a tank if I ever buy any. Thank you.