I’m considering starting an online store where you could buy live crayfish and shrimp, food and treats for them, and many other pet crustacean products shipped straight to you. I want to know if you guys think it is a good idea, and if you had the option, would you buy from it? Everything would be sustainable and priced well and come from a good home so you guys wouldn't have to get stuff from anywhere sketchy again. Would you guys be interested?
So im in the US in the Great Lakes area. Let me tell you what we do. So first,Or Crayfish tanks are set up with all natural stone from within the area. Not the pretty colored stone seen here. We we do is ill take my spade shovel and dig a section of Cattail root out of a swamp or ditch. Then cut the top off and then wash our (As much as possible) the mud and soil. Then place this in the corner of there tank. Its going to want to float. So if you have a full tank,You can wieght it down with small rocks. If your tank isn't full. Just let it float. Or build a rock pile from them to climb on and they'll grab on to it and start feeding on it. They LOVE the roots. The other thing Ive started doing is feeding cooked sea food or small bits of domestic fish. My crays have really taken to the Snow Crab legs that my kids can't seem to finish. Ill cut about 1" of cooked leg for each Crayfish and split it down ine side and drop it near there favorite hiding spot. My two larger females (In the same tank) Love it. And will go and steal the others left overs when she isn't looking. The other thing they love is cooked Sweet Corn. About 3-4 kernels per large Crayfish every 72 hours. A can of sweet corn will last forever feeding a Crayfish or 5. We also keep some live minows (2" or so) in there tanks. They help clean up the uneaten scraps. And so fare my Crayfish haven't bothered them. And there always seem to be some bugs of some sort that come in with the Cattail root that the minows seem to like also.
Mine REALLY likes worms. He eats them out of my hand like a dog. He also likes leaves. He shreds them. Its more of like a foraging enrichment toy for him than food but he does eat some of it. He seems to get excited when he sees me replacing his leaf litter. He comes out of his little rock cave and it almost looks like hes playing in the leaves. Ive been trying to think of some vegtables he can try because they are omnivores and need some vegtables/plant matter as food. I just wasnt sure what to try. Ill try carrots since yours likes them (mine is a north american species but most crayfish have similar diets). Ive had my lil dude since he was less than an inch long (not sure what that would be in cm), he was tiny. Hes grown so much. Soon enough im gonna have to upgrade his tank.
He's currently in a 10 gallon (us gallons) but I will be upgrading him as he grows. I've had him for I think a year now. He's a pretty decent size now. I plan on doing a longer aquarium that is a native creek biotype for him using local stones/driftwood, etc legally collected with permission from a family friends private property. If I put him in a big enough tank I may also add a shoal of native minnows as tankmates. In a bigger tank they'd be able to move away from him without getting harmed especially if I choose a larger species that he wouldn't bother as much but one not large enough to bother him.
I’m considering starting an online store where you could buy live crayfish and shrimp, food and treats for them, and many other pet crustacean products shipped straight to you. I want to know if you guys think it is a good idea, and if you had the option, would you buy from it? Everything would be sustainable and priced well and come from a good home so you guys wouldn't have to get stuff from anywhere sketchy again. Would you guys be interested?
So im in the US in the Great Lakes area. Let me tell you what we do. So first,Or Crayfish tanks are set up with all natural stone from within the area. Not the pretty colored stone seen here. We we do is ill take my spade shovel and dig a section of Cattail root out of a swamp or ditch. Then cut the top off and then wash our (As much as possible) the mud and soil. Then place this in the corner of there tank. Its going to want to float. So if you have a full tank,You can wieght it down with small rocks. If your tank isn't full. Just let it float. Or build a rock pile from them to climb on and they'll grab on to it and start feeding on it. They LOVE the roots. The other thing Ive started doing is feeding cooked sea food or small bits of domestic fish. My crays have really taken to the Snow Crab legs that my kids can't seem to finish. Ill cut about 1" of cooked leg for each Crayfish and split it down ine side and drop it near there favorite hiding spot. My two larger females (In the same tank) Love it. And will go and steal the others left overs when she isn't looking. The other thing they love is cooked Sweet Corn. About 3-4 kernels per large Crayfish every 72 hours. A can of sweet corn will last forever feeding a Crayfish or 5. We also keep some live minows (2" or so) in there tanks. They help clean up the uneaten scraps. And so fare my Crayfish haven't bothered them. And there always seem to be some bugs of some sort that come in with the Cattail root that the minows seem to like also.
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Thanks for the info cool video's
Do you feed berried?
Shall frozen daphnia nutritionaly suffice? Or is such a morsel inadequate?
Depends how big your crayfish is and how much you feed it.
Happy 2024 mate!
Mine REALLY likes worms. He eats them out of my hand like a dog. He also likes leaves. He shreds them. Its more of like a foraging enrichment toy for him than food but he does eat some of it. He seems to get excited when he sees me replacing his leaf litter. He comes out of his little rock cave and it almost looks like hes playing in the leaves. Ive been trying to think of some vegtables he can try because they are omnivores and need some vegtables/plant matter as food. I just wasnt sure what to try. Ill try carrots since yours likes them (mine is a north american species but most crayfish have similar diets). Ive had my lil dude since he was less than an inch long (not sure what that would be in cm), he was tiny. Hes grown so much. Soon enough im gonna have to upgrade his tank.
He's currently in a 10 gallon (us gallons) but I will be upgrading him as he grows. I've had him for I think a year now. He's a pretty decent size now. I plan on doing a longer aquarium that is a native creek biotype for him using local stones/driftwood, etc legally collected with permission from a family friends private property. If I put him in a big enough tank I may also add a shoal of native minnows as tankmates. In a bigger tank they'd be able to move away from him without getting harmed especially if I choose a larger species that he wouldn't bother as much but one not large enough to bother him.