Electric Blue Crayfish Tank Mates

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Crayfish can be kept with tank mates and other fish in a fish aquarium. Crayfish will catch and eat smaller sized fish. Most people keep aquarium crayfish with Livebearers like guppies because they’re constantly breeding.

Another trick to deter your aquarium crayfish from eating fish is to have lots of hiding spots. Crayfish are nocturnal and prefer to hide during the day. Crayfish are scavengers and much prefer to eat on an easier kill.

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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

drathicusrex

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!

bryanhaller

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.

tegannottelling

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

lordofarchons

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

startrekmodelmaker

I know i’m late but the setup is cool kinda like a podcast 1:50 😂

adamalege

I keep 2 crayfish with 2 mystery snails, 3 opalin gourami for 6 months now they are doing great

TheForce

My crayfish is really chill with the fish wen he was young. Clown's are very good

Pufferfish-Guy

I have tetras, bala sharks, guppies, and red belly pacus in my tank with my blue lobster they all get along fine

DeathDealerZack

Red worms works great for my crayfish for food

joesuttles

My blue crayfish love eating red wiggler earthworms that I buy from the bait shop!

christiandenault

Even when I brought my electric blue crayfish it was at the store in a tank with gold fish

MS.UPDASCO

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?

wathannoo

I got a crawfish from river today it really small I but it in a 55 gallon tank with a electric blue acara and a goldfish and a albino bichir

jasonlittle

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!

whippersnappery