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hey..can they be mixed together?thx in advance

Crays should not be kept with any fish, IMO.

EDIT: Perhaps I should specify. There are two kinds of fish that are kept with crays; those that become lunch and those that will kill the cray itself. Large, aggrssive cichlids, barbs, and even loricariids fall in the latter while the former consists both of small fish caught with a single claw or pieces of finnage and other body parts of larger, more docile fish.

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 03-Jan-2006 01:53

anyone else?

Sorry have to agree with cup,especially with those fish you have i wouldn't do it.

Robby

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

How about some red clawed crabs? they are beter than crays anyway. Theyre really cool, and If you have live plants, they can climb up them to get to the surface to breath.
Plus if they start dropping like flies you know that theres something wrong with your nitrites.

IMO i wouldnt put crabs, or any type of crayfish into a tank with fish i want to keep... crabs require partial land in the tank to be happy, so i think the plant idea might not be a good idea....


also, i think anything with pinchers are possible preditors for sleeping or resting fish....



*Chelle*
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I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious...

Crabs have pincers so that the can pick things up to theyre mouths, when I first got mine the other fish thought they were food and they used their feet as a warning and would jab them with theyre feet.
My crabs used to climb the filter and sit on that, but now they just climb the live plants, so I think they prefer the plants.

I think you're out of luck with crays and that combination of fish. I keep dwarf crayfish (procambarus hinei) with other fish (SAEs and Rainbows and a large pleco) with no problems, but I tried keeping a slightly larger species (cambarus ludovicianus) with fish (female bettas), and it was a disaster.
Loaches, gobies, and elephant noses are all carnivorous (or at least omnivorous) fish, making small crays, crabs, and shrimp likely prey, and larger crays will harm or outright kill them. You can try it, of course, and if it works, then great, but be prepared for it to not work at all...

Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean...

The pincers on even a modest Crayfish are weapons of war. Nice gin traps for unsuspecting fishes. How big a fish can be snared in them depends upon the size of the Crayfish, of course, but if I was spending the large amount of money that Elephant Noses would cost here in the UK, I wouldn't risk them becoming an expensive lunch for something else.

As has been said above, the fishes that would be safe from being eaten by the Crayfish would, in all probability, grow to regard the Crayfish itself as lunch in due course. Either way it's a disaster waiting to happen.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

okay..thx for the info.