Crayfish Aquarium Set Up Tutorial
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I've read some of the comments below and find them misleading. Young man, the amount of sand is perfect. Crayfish LOVE to burrow. I might even add a little layer of muddy substrate under the sand, although it makes it more difficult to maintain aesthetically acceptable water quality. Trust me, the crayfish won't care. Keep the water clean enough to see through, but not crystalline; they don't live in nature that way. Add a tablet of calcium/magnesium every month or so to make it easier for them to molt. They live where there is a lot of dead wood and tannins in the water and don't care/even like/this type of environment. They are omnivores and will eat almost anything as long as it can be broken down into small particles: algae wafers, shrimp pellets, dried worm pellets. Of course, living things like Walter worms and even small fish are on their menu. I dislike the way some aquarists starve them into going crazy after a live goldfish, for example. They will wear themselves out trying to catch a live fish and then can't eat easily. They have to break it apart tiny piece by tiny piece and sometimes drag it into a hide or cave to rot so it is easier to eat. They don't have crushing teeth or strong jaws. If tank bred, they will almost never attempt escape, but if wild caught, they will escape every time, trying to "go back home." When one is determined to escape, I take him back "home" and release him. They are territorial and build borders between themselves and tankmates to keep the peace. Don't crowd them. I've raised these fascinating creatures for 50 years and still don't know everything about them, but the advice above might help you enjoy them even more.
Hey Kerry Chase. I have 2 Cherax Desctructor. Male and Female ofc. They cuddle alot.. but thats not the topic.. since yesterday they try to escape but i have them for almost 1year now... i asked in forums etc etc.. they said i dont have enough oxygen in my tank and they try to breath outside.... my firered shrimps do the same.. i have a good moving surface and a pump with airattachement thingy. Maybe u have an idea? I feed them protein only once in a week and as standart i go with the shrimp/crayfish sticks... they love em. So whats my Problem? I checked my Water with numerous tests and cant find any solution.
Alucard NoLifeKing They need lots of hiding places, thick substrate--sandy with potting soil bottom layer, and calcium supplements. They prefer moving water (an in-tank submersible pump is ideal). They breathe with gills underneath the carapace so will do fine with proper aeration and lots of plants.
Okay thank you for your advice! I keep you updated.
hi i want keep crayfish red claw and ancistrus dolihopterus, plekostomus or thei getalong or crayfish wil eat them thank
@@rytispetrikenas1021As long as the crayfish and the pleco are about the same size, they will get along fine. I've had this combination many times without difficulty. Remember to keep a glass top on the aquarium so the crayfish can't escape. They WILL try!
I'll add this: I've kept crayfish in community tanks for many years. I start them in the tank as hatchlings whenever possible, that way, they home in on the tank and don't usually feel compelled to leave. I keep them well fed on algae wafers, shrimp pellets, and dried worm tablets as well as the occasional boiled or crushed vegetable or salad shrimp. They have never bothered the community fish in the tank when well fed. The bigger the tank, the better. I use anything above 40 gallons with best results.
can i fill my tank? or do i need to make an area where they can get out of water.. like instal a turtle ledge?
How often should you feed one?
@ЯНАО АККР Have you ever seen anyone removing waste from the creek and lake beds? No, you haven't. You don't have to remove the waste. Bacteria, plants, and other small creatures will do that for you. An occasional water change is sufficient. (Twenty-five percent water change weekly will suffice). You may vacuum the very surface for aesthetic reasons if you want but the "waste" is an essential part of the biological cycle of life. Keeping a glass lid on the tank will help keep them from escaping but will cause the CO2 levels to increase: great for the plants, not so much for the animals. This requires you use an aeration pump to increase oxygen and keep the water moving around.
@@thebrutalgarden6842 If you have a large enough tank you can build a turtle ledge, but they don't require it since they don't breathe air. They have gills under their carapace which MUST remain wet at all times. If they escape, put them in a large lid with some water to re-wet the gills and watch them for a while before you dump them back in the tank, as they may die d/t dried out gills.
Hey I wanna put some plants in my aquarium but the crayfish keeps pulling them out , i wanted to ask about any plants that can survive the crayfish
Your voice is so smooth and soothing LOOOL fallin asleep
Fun Fact: if you boil the wood for about an hour or two, it won’t make the water yellow when you put it in.
Thanks for this I'm getting this for my girls and need to know what I have to put in the tank
crayfish are omnivores
they are omnivores not herbivores
Jonah Hauber 😂😂
They eat meat and plants. They will cannibalize each other if not properly fed.
I feed mine balogna and they are fat as pigs
If they are both..it means you can say they are omnivore.
They don’t like meat but they will eat it if they have to.
aquariums design can be beautiful art, the sand level is perfect..
Enjoyed this vid. Where can I find these clear seal tanks.
Edit- I found it in the description.
Beautiful setup and cute crayfish :D
Excellent Job.Your a great educator-----Thank you very much-Bill Petillo
4:40 little man just bossed the bigger guy out of that hiding spot lol
i have 4 different types of crayfish with gravel, they have made themselves at home easily with some fish added.
Cheers any updates in 2021 about your crayfishes?
Hi I know you said the crayfish would burrow. I live in the UK do they do that so frequently and in different places all the time? Otherwise surely that depth of sand would become anaerobic and cause toxicity?
I'm thinking about starting a crayfish tank. Thanx for this info.
Let me give you some tips, because this videos is kind of misleading, if you want one, I suggest a ten gallon, but for two or more I suggest a 55 gallon or up, you don't need that much sand, just about three inches, make sure to have live plants, and some driftwood spread out for the craws to hide in, for how many craws you have, get a hide for each, Crayfish eat anything from fish, to the live plants you have, so feed it ghost shrimp, small minnows, and make sure you have a little bit of algae growth, the crayfish will feed off of it. Have an are with some gravel, so the crayfish have a balance between and and gravel, use gravel big enough so that the crayfish cannot eat it, DO NOT USE VERY SMALL GRAVEL.
I found a few things different from the research I do. The crayfish are omnivores and if you are not careful they will eat each other if you have a littler one or if you don't feed them enough. This was an awesome video!!!!!
is it really cold where you live cuz in oz we dont need heater
How long did you wait before adding crayfish? Sorry if I missed it in the video.
What’s the best filter I should get for my crayfish tank
I like how you did the sand deep (taller)unlike other crayfish tanks I've seen they like to burrow....nice tank!
Thankyou so much for sharing your knowledge..
how do you handle calcium and iodine needs? mind you I have mine with fish
How often should u feed one?
Thanks for the tutorial pal! My mother brought home a cray fish from a pond of which they were just gonna kill all the ones in there anyways so I'm gonna make him/her a nice home, I have named them lobster as I am bad at naming.
Very professional video 👏🏿
Kindly tell Crayfish can live without air pump, it's tank mates fishes and its life span.
Thanks
Are pebbles ok for substrate?
Can keep it in a tank without aerator ?
The website won’t let me add anything to the basket how do you do it?
Could you please post your water parameters? Thank you
Cool setup
sir is that Natural dye of driftwood is okay for them? is it not harmful? please reply me sir
what do they eat ?
Every time i have 2 crayfish in the same tank, they will always fight and tried to kill/ eat each other when one of them are molting. And they will always escape, so i put steel bar above the aquarium.
What do you feed new babies
And, would Crayfish be willing/able to eat small pieces of canned chicken, if that's all I currently have for it's protien?
Do crawfish eat detritus worms?
Please tell me more about crayfsh bcoz wanna buy for my son
What is the proper water height in a crayfish aquarium?
Sir, Do i need to put the airpump oxygen or just a natural one?
Hw many gallons does it have to be
You can make it like a lobster tank where make can live there
You’re lucky if your crayfish prefers veggies. I find they all have different preferences and personalities. I’ve had crayfish that were shy and didn’t eat the fish, and crayfish on the other side of the spectrum who were extremely predatory tried to catch and eat fish at every opportunity.
My crayfish just dead... she doesn't want to eat anything after moulting... 😣
Awesome man
Can i add tree?
Can I keep a single Signal Crayfish in a 20 gallon or no?
Are they send in india??
i know i'm late on this video but does this aquarium set-up work with red claw/fiddler crabs??? or do i need to have flowing water
Some crabs need a section of land above the water. I would do more research in the specific needs of your crab! Sorry I can't help more
I just got two crayfish for some weird reason but anyway my question is that i've ordered a tank but the tank has not arrived yet. Where should i keep my crayfish while i'm waiting for the tank to arrive? I'm putting them in two separate pot with some water to cover them up at the moment. It seems they are now being less active and are now weaker compare to when they first came in. Is there anything i can do to keep them alive while waiting for the tank?
RIP. those crayfish long dead now from lack of a Nitrogen Cycle. neither in the buckets nor in a fresh still sterile tank.
Hi! What is the size of this tank? Is this size the rule of thumb if you will have 1 male, 2 female crayfishes?
Can we leave a cray fish in a tank of cichlids ?
Yes, as long as the cichlids are small and the crayfish are about the same size. Cichlids will eat small crayfish in a heartbeat. I keep crayfish in cichlid tanks all the time, but the cichlids are small, no larger than 4 inches long, and the crayfish are 2.5 to 4 inches in length.
I have hundreds of little crayfish in the stream right next to my driveway. I'm thinking of catching a few and trying to raise them in an aquarium now. I'll have to figure out their exact species to determine the ideal setup for them first. That, and find a way to get rid of any parasites they may have, as they are wild.
A large percentage of crayfish suffer from "crayfish fungus" which will kill them eventually. Keep them in a tank apart from other aquatic life for a period of several weeks and let them grow out, using algae wafers, shrimp pellets, and dried worm tablets. They will eat crushed up cooked hotdogs and vegetables, but they may let them partially rot before eating them. Putting a Catappa leaf in tank (one per every 10 gallons) will help kill off the fungus and the crayfish love it. But don't worry, some of them will die anyway. Never release crayfish from one site into another site. This has served to spread this lethal disease from as far away as America is from Europe. After several months of survival in a quarantine tank, it is usually safe to move them into a community tank with tank mates no larger than themselves.
My crayfish just hides and doesn’t eat the feeders I buy him I don’t understand what he is eating or living on tbh. How can I get him to eat?! I’ve already tried putting him alone in a container with the fish where the fish is very close to him and he ignores it
If you decide to keep/breed our native white-clawed crayfish, (and I'm not sure how could get them legally) it could prove very useful for aiding in their conservation against the invasive american signal crayfish, and survival of crayfish plague.
I love crayfish
There super protective of themselves
Perfect tbh
Im also keeping some crayfish
I don't think crayfish need heaters. Or atleats most crayfish. Also can I keep a wild crayfish?
radioactive carnivorous plants I keep wild ones I caught with traps
I gave a thumbs up because you called it a cheeky thumbs up and that made me laugh
Crawdaddies are such majestic creatures
William Margerum crawfish
Crayfish :D
You can call them all of these
lol must be a west coast thing calling them crawdads
Awww m8! This was a gr8 "chewtorial"...
Greg Davies what is a chewtorial
nice tank ! awesome !! greetings from France
i wonder how do add oxygene in it without any pump ?
Plants
and where ? i dont see them in that tank
OK, you missed the fact he sectioned off a small refugium on the right side of the tank for filtration and pump.
oh ok..i see the filtration ..but no plants ;)
No, it was just my suggestion that one might not need active filtration, but only plants. I've done it this way with some success as long as the surface area is large in proportion to the depth of the tank. I should have made that more clear. I have a large pond and of course, it doesn't have aeration and agitation, but lots and lots of algae, duckweed, lily pads, etc. But, the surface area is huge compared to the depth of the pond.
Don't need a heater for these Cherax quadricarinatus crayfish. Also I would be wary of using bogwood as it acidifies the water. Clay pots and fake ones are better as will retain the ph in the higher end which Crays need for successful molts, unless you are going to use additives in the tank to raise ph such as iodine
Thanks for advice! So far the crayfish have all shed great and I have had no issues.
crayfish
The wood does not really lower the PH alot, tannins do. If you get a new piece of wood it will leak tannins (the stuff that makes your tea brown) and that will drastically lower the PH
But if you do 2 waterchanges per week it's not a big problem, and when the wood stopts leaking tannins it's not a problem at all
My crayfish are not molting properly , I had a feeling my water ph may be the problem , what can I do to improve it safely for them ?
Add a tablet of calcium/magnesium every month or so. They need a lot of calcium to molt.
Please tell me the proper heating level.
Room temperature. They accept a wide range of temperatures, all the way from the 80's down to near freezing, at which point they will hibernate in the very thick substrate provided, thinking it is winter.
When you were putting the fish inside tank it looked like you were dumping your sushi in a fish tank
Can i use a ten gallon,pvc pipe,sand,smooth stones
No, 20 gal minimum
Food?
I’m confused I bough three crayfish only around inch size
I though they didn’t breed until they was large
I now have over ten baby’s lol more for the puffer ayy
size of your tank?
How do they differ from prawns or shrimps??
prawns actually swim like fish, crayfish sit on the bottom
Don't forget to keep the water hard as too soft a water will kill them after they moult.
Will deer antlers work as wood/decor?
No, they will deteriorate over time, and they don't add the same acidity to a tank that wood does. I wouldn't be confident either about what bacteria a shed would add to a tank.
What if I had an aquarium with only cleaner species like clams, shrimps, crabs, and snails. I want the water to be *Crisp* .
I know that they can be in a tank with a crab and they just treat it as another crawdad and if big enough they'll eat the shrimp
No lights
Was that a bandaid in the tank?
Never mind lol I can’t see very well. My bad
Is a 20 Gallon long a good size? 30in x 15in x 15
Yes.
where do you get your aquariums?
Pet smart or pet co but if you want a cheap one go on Craigslist
Why are crayfishes soo cute?
30cm Square space? So a tank which is 5cm by 6cm?? Do you mean 300sq cm?
Does crayfish need heater?
No.
Nice
Carrots are great for crawfish
why on earth are you putting a heater in the tank of a creature that normally lives in cold creeks and lakes¿
hes house probs gets to cold
How*
Don't replace your filter media!
Do crayfish fight each other if we put them together???
Phuc Vo yes and they will kill each other if not enough room and if there are 2 females and 1 male.
They will if overcrowded and of the same species.
my crayfish has just climbed out my tank and i found it dead on the floor dried up. :(
That's sad. Yesterday was my birthday and my pleco and dwarf puffer were dead 😭
that sucks, the other day when i was doing a water change one of my fish got sucked up the hose and died.
Thats horrible. Last night, my cat caught my crayfish and ate it.
Jeffrey Domingo how did your cat catch your crayfish
she went on top of the tank and pawed the crayfish while it was on top of a rock near the top.
hi. i want to know if its a good idea to give the crayfish an island or any plataform that get to the surface (air), so they can lay and get a little dry once in a while? its a beautiful tank congrats greatings from mexico
They need a little island to get to the surface if the water isn't well oxygenated. I have some rocks that reach the surface in my tank, but my crayfish doesn't even use it :(
Swamp Gas crawfish
Elsanto Visonte crawfish
Sorry for the slow reply. Greeting from London.
The crayfish will not need an island but do feel free to add one if you want. Just make sure that they cannot escape from the tank via your island :D
RedsBassSpecks Flounder it's the same shit bro
Where can i get the sand u usedm
You can get white or yellow sand from aquarium stores or of ebay
P00Ki Vainglory would you link me the exact sand you bought please
peas what and seaweed???
They like cucumbers the best and if you wash them. They wont change water quality seeing as cucumbers are like 100% water.
what gallon tank is that?
The tank is a 28.1 U.S. gallon tank. I put a link in the description
neato.
Technically they are omnivores... they ate my fish. My friend had one crayfish and it ate all the Angelfish they had in a 50 gallon.
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my 1 crayfish ate all my piranhas
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Can I add fish 🐟 or snail 🐌??? And if I can what kind ?????
I'M { BEING SALMAN } Crawfish are aggressive and will eat any snails. Only get top or middle-dwelling fish, as they will eat anything they can catch. Make sure any fish aren't aggressive or large, as they may harm or even eat your crawfish.
Plecos might work. My pleco did fine with a crayfish because it has very tough skin, but if the crayfish can get under the pleco he will tear his guts out. So you might be able to use a pleco, but generally very fast and middle/high dwelling fish work best
Right-o. They are less aggressive when well fed with algae wafers, shrimp pellets, and dried worm tablets. Keeping crayfish in a community tank will work out better if they are approximately the same size as the rest of the fish in the tank. The bigger the tank the better.
Can I add plants 🌱????
I'M { BEING SALMAN } Crawfish will eat any plants, so I wouldn't recommend them. Unless it's a treat, of course.
Always use plants. They make oxygen for the water column as well as providing some nutrition for the crayfish. You can always add more plants.
pop filter, my friend