So this is the rabbit hole

[macawmatt]

Hey all.

Have a 55 gallon tank at my office that has housed some shubunkins for a few years. Decided to change things up last year and moved them and reset the tank for a pair of tiger crayfish and a bunch of schooling fish. The crayfish are the most reclusive I've seen but they are fun to watch when they do come out. After just getting to enjoy the fish at work, we wanted to have some tanks at home so we got a his/her pair of 5 gallons for Christmas. Still cycling (oh the agony) but I will do a shrimp tank with mine and she is getting a betta for hers. Enough tanks right?

Well, after the repeated visits to the LFS for this and that, I started watching the dwarf puffers while we waited for help, well, now also have a 32 gallon tank on order to do a puffer setup at home as well too. And since you know puffers don't eat flake food we might as well get a tank to breed snails right? So after having that single 55 gallon for years, we will not be tending to 5 tanks by the end of the month. MTS huh.

 

[Unknown9182]

Hey all.

Have a 55 gallon tank at my office that has housed some shubunkins for a few years. Decided to change things up last year and moved them and reset the tank for a pair of tiger crayfish and a bunch of schooling fish. The crayfish are the most reclusive I've seen but they are fun to watch when they do come out. After just getting to enjoy the fish at work, we wanted to have some tanks at home so we got a his/her pair of 5 gallons for Christmas. Still cycling (oh the agony) but I will do a shrimp tank with mine and she is getting a betta for hers. Enough tanks right?

Well, after the repeated visits to the LFS for this and that, I started watching the dwarf puffers while we waited for help, well, now also have a 32 gallon tank on order to do a puffer setup at home as well too. And since you know puffers don't eat flake food we might as well get a tank to breed snails right? So after having that single 55 gallon for years, we will not be tending to 5 tanks by the end of the month. MTS huh.

Im with you about MTS. I first started with a 5 gallon, then 1.6, then a 1. Then for my birthday a 36 gal, and for Christmas a 10 gallon puffer tank. But i put down the 1 gallon and moved the frogs into the 1.6.

 

[AcornTheBetta]

Hey all.

Have a 55 gallon tank at my office that has housed some shubunkins for a few years. Decided to change things up last year and moved them and reset the tank for a pair of tiger crayfish and a bunch of schooling fish. The crayfish are the most reclusive I've seen but they are fun to watch when they do come out. After just getting to enjoy the fish at work, we wanted to have some tanks at home so we got a his/her pair of 5 gallons for Christmas. Still cycling (oh the agony) but I will do a shrimp tank with mine and she is getting a betta for hers. Enough tanks right?

Well, after the repeated visits to the LFS for this and that, I started watching the dwarf puffers while we waited for help, well, now also have a 32 gallon tank on order to do a puffer setup at home as well too. And since you know puffers don't eat flake food we might as well get a tank to breed snails right? So after having that single 55 gallon for years, we will not be tending to 5 tanks by the end of the month. MTS huh.

Welcome to Fishlore.

 

[mimo91088]

Welcome aboard! That crayfish is gorgeous.

 

[Kribensis27]

Well now I need a tiger crayfish! That's gorgeous! Are they aggressive? Welcome!

 

[macawmatt]

Well now I need a tiger crayfish! That's gorgeous! Are they aggressive? Welcome!

Not as much as the blue crayfish are supposed to be. First night we had the female in there it was a little touchy, but since then they pretty much leave each other alone and when the do bump into each other it isn't a huge issue.

 

[Equestrianhammy]

Haha, I know what you mean!
You start out with one, and a few months later, you have 5!

 

[EllsAquarium]

Hey all.

Have a 55 gallon tank at my office that has housed some shubunkins for a few years. Decided to change things up last year and moved them and reset the tank for a pair of tiger crayfish and a bunch of schooling fish. The crayfish are the most reclusive I've seen but they are fun to watch when they do come out. After just getting to enjoy the fish at work, we wanted to have some tanks at home so we got a his/her pair of 5 gallons for Christmas. Still cycling (oh the agony) but I will do a shrimp tank with mine and she is getting a betta for hers. Enough tanks right?

Well, after the repeated visits to the LFS for this and that, I started watching the dwarf puffers while we waited for help, well, now also have a 32 gallon tank on order to do a puffer setup at home as well too. And since you know puffers don't eat flake food we might as well get a tank to breed snails right? So after having that single 55 gallon for years, we will not be tending to 5 tanks by the end of the month. MTS huh.

Sounds about right

 

[ProudPapa]

Welcome, and I understand. I went from 1 to 6 in considerably less than a year.

 

[Kribensis27]

Not as much as the blue crayfish are supposed to be. First night we had the female in there it was a little touchy, but since then they pretty much leave each other alone and when the do bump into each other it isn't a huge issue.

Thanks for the response. Do they eat smaller fish? All the crays I’ve kept other than dwarf oranges would eat anything they could catch.

 

[macawmatt]

Thanks for the response. Do they eat smaller fish? All the crays I’ve kept other than dwarf oranges would eat anything they could catch.

Since the beginning of December I have lost 2 neon tetras, 1 x-ray tetra, and 1 harlequin rasbora. Now, was that to the crayfish or not I don't know. At least two of them were on my filter intake, but if they died naturally or were snipped its too hard to say.

Now I also keep dropping in ghost shrimp since I don't want to lose plecos or such, and I do have to keep replacing them. I have seen a shrimp walk right under one of the crayfish and it was able to just keep walking. Certain that some have been consumed but at $.25 each I can deal with that.

 

[Kribensis27]

If the dead fish were still intact when you found them, I doubt it was the crays then. They usually eat at least part of pretty much anything they kill. Tanks for the info! One final question, do they burrow a lot?

 

[macawmatt]

If the dead fish were still intact when you found them, I doubt it was the crays then. They usually eat at least part of pretty much anything they kill. Tanks for the info! One final question, do they burrow a lot?

The female tore up the tank at the LFS before she came home. The owner would reset the tank at the end of the day so that it could clear up by the morning but she had already redecorated again overnight so he gave up. Now here, be it that she is no longer in a tank with cichlids she doesn't. Both of them did kind of close up some of the "caves" we have with gravel before they molted but nothing crazy.