Blue Crayfish/"Lobster" sniffing out algae wafer

[bleeatch]

was it this blue when you bought it?

[210najia]

wow i like to see blue crayfish

[WatWudBeACoolUsrname]

haha i got one. they pretty cool. they shed skin aswell and then they eat it. other than that.......

[rkon1000]

what kind of plant is that on the right? n nice crayfish/lobster

[kannabis45]

Crayfish have so much character, love em!

[hersheynips10]

what do u feed ur crayfish?

[Ethen560]

what size is the tank?

[beelang817]

@philstew123 why didn't u just take him out after killing one of ur fish

[xDAVMANx]

Love your crayfish man nice...5/5

[philstew123]

I had one and it was a terrible pet! in the space of a week it ate an angelfish, a spiny peacock eel, an aquatic frog, a female fighter, destroyed all of my live plants and remodelled the tank decor! It was then quickly given away to another aquarists shop! Dont buy one if you keep other slow moving fish and plants!!!

[XuSoPhuTang]

Great !!

[art1618]

What kind of lighting is that? It emits a particular hue I want.

[123FIREball200]

where did you get and how much did it cost

[Recordskrome]

Does the Crayfish eat algae?

[Superbat150]

Whoa yours is so blue

[sonicnarutolover]

?i don't get how a lobster can sniff something out

[ontheunderground]

with his nose?

[sonicnarutolover]

yeah

[awesomecrookie25]

Cool

[mvphalfback]

your rock where he came from is beautiful

[mnenravitsa]

I have a blue lobster with 3 mollies, used to be 23 he eat the rest when they were babies.He got used to these three, not eating them, when he is hungry, he extend his body on the glass, so I will see him, extending his claws towards the top. He got used to be fed when he is asking for food. I fed him every 2-3 day, as I was told in a aquantic shop. But since he molted 2 times, he is very gready, now wants to eat sometimes 2-3 portions in a day, in a row!

[nitinmehmi]

Please Advice Can i Put 1 lobster with MONO FISH?

[pokemon2727]

do crayfish or crawfish need air?

[GinotheMC]

hey are those real plants? cause when i put real plants in my tank, my blue crayfish ended up chopping all of em..

[colinsjunkbin]

I bought mine at a local pet/fish store called PetLand, although I've seen them at many different stores here in BC, Canada.

[Sursion7]

@colinsjunkbin Where is this Petland? I live in Surrey, and it's almost impossible to find good fish stores.

[Goopycrunchi681]

@colinsjunkbin LOL! That's funny, 'cause that's where I got MY blue crayfish! It was a PetLand in Iowa, though. Yep, it's a crayfish. Lobsters have large, flat disk/shaped claws, and crayfish have long skinny ones.

[miruntingz]

where did you buy it

[thatkidsdead]

lol mine crawled out of the tank somehow and died on my floor when i was sleeping

[airsoftboy]

hehe, you had some other predatory fish or something? lol's crustacious stuff do that(not mine).

[fishguy810]

Haha, my lobster does the same thing, runs out to steal the wafers then he will hurry back to his cave!

[shutdownthefed]

will a blue lobster kill my blue gourami?

[colinsjunkbin]

As said before, a crayfish/lobster will try to eat any fish it can grab hold of. Cray's are best left in tank on their own in my experiences. If you have anything else in the tank with the cray, the cray will hide a lot of the time.

[seel1990]

i've got 8 different gourami in my tank with my lobster and it doesnt do anything but hide. in my experiance as long as the gourami is bigger than the lobster it should be fine

[colinsjunkbin]

I've always found the lobster/cray is far more adventurous when he's in a tank on his own.

[vett3l0l]

@shutdownthefed try finding out if the fish is a bottem sleeper or not

[davejued]

wat species is this crayfish? im lookin for buffer claws blue crayfish and i dont know wat the species called. anyone tell me?

[foundation227]

electric blue crayfish/lobster

[Degu1]

That's a very nice tank set up =)

[wolfboyp54]

same here :D

[tillmanfan10]

im getting hopefully getting a crayfish after x-mas:D

[colinsjunkbin]

Did you just get the cray recently? Those eggs could hatch if you just got it from a store and it was kept with a male cray. If you've had it for a while, then no, those eggs shouldn't hatch. I'm not sure if they lay eggs without a mate, but I do know they breed quite easily (if they don't kill each other first)..... O_o

[ciafaye66fg]

question: i recently got a cray and a lobster my cray eats every fish in the tank except the lobster why?

[colinsjunkbin]

Crays are scavengers generally, but they are also very opportunistic feeders as well... Meaning if they can catch it or grab it, they will eat it. The only fish I've ever kept with my cray are ones that were deformed or needed to be culled for other reasons (they become cray-food when he catches them, sometimes over night, other times it may take months for the fish to be caught).

[emukid410]

question: my blue crayfish has eggs on its tail. does that mean shes goig to have babies? there are no othe lobesters in the tank and we bought the lobster in august. so will the eggs hatch?

[TheFishDude2613]

ha ha u asked that question twice on two diffrent vids and i found them that is funny!!

[Jetstorm369]

hey can you please tell me if the foliage in your tank is real or artificial? cause I've had problems having crayfish together with real aquatic plants. thanks.

[Dimunic]

is that a giant green snail? (to the owner of this video)

[colinsjunkbin]

Not sure what you're referring to, but either way, no. I've only ever kept malaysian trumpet snails with the cray. If you're looking at the thing on the far right of the tank where the wafer lands, that's a half of a coconut shell...

[colinsjunkbin]

THe plants are all real, but they don't last long. Cray's love to rip up and eat plants. I just replanted his tank a month ago and at this moment there isn't a single plant left; not even java moss or crypt's.....

[Degu1]

Wow he ate all your java moss too? Vicious...

[airdog77]

cute

[krnx213]

hey do crayfish eat their own poop?

[Lightstormer]

no lol

[pl00oui]

will they change colors

[Lightstormer]

not at will like chameleons =p

But every time they molt their shells, it starts out milky white, and the blue gets darker as the shell gets darker :D

[noahetnies]

i have a crawdad but he always climbs up my filter

[austinpetemo]

is that a licorice gourami?!?!

[colinsjunkbin]

Nope.. The fish is a very young dwarf cichlid; Apistgramma cacatuoides (aka Triple Red Cockatoo Cichlid). This one had a deformity which is why it's with the cray..... Natural selection...

[Galliruler]

Is that saltwater?

[colinsjunkbin]

That's freshwater.

[lauren100289]

I got a lobster yesterday and left it for 5 mins while i got juice and when i came back my apple snail was gone! i think im gonna put it in a different tank :/

[larakai4]

LOL Cute It Scared The Fish Away

[korva23222]

nice tank

[zack3mire]

hey can anybody tell me ...

can blue cray fish mix with other small fishes??

wad are the tank mates suitable for them?

[ThisFish88]

I have kept crayfish and fish together for a long time and interactions are rare considering they are slow bulky creatures.

[ikermalli]

could you make a care video for them?

[lagendax8737]

cool crayfish i wish i could have those aquarium

[R3an1mator]

the big no mix crustation is the malasian prawn which i used to have they are one that u never want to mix as they will try to clear your tank out i will post some pics if i can still find them

[R3an1mator]

the mixing crayfish and other fish is ok i have a mixed tank with a large crayfish in it and i have no problems at all if u dont believe me check my videos i have had a mixed tank for about 3 years and the only fish i have ever lost to the crayfish was a tiger barb that was on his last legs anyway he got in a fight with one of my chichlids and lost an eye and got a few battle scars then he just swam in circles like mad so a few days later the cray fish ate him

[billydkid5]

Not really. THat looks like a Cobalt, but the knight blue are really SLOW and cant catch fish so if you have fish I would go with the KNIGHT BLUE instead of the cobalt.

[Amii89]

once i put my shark in with my cray fish and my crayfish took a chunk out of it

[pierrepepi]

it's really bad over here in the UK for keeping Blue crayfish, only one species the Cherax quadricarinatus are allowed, others are illegal and punishable by a fine or prison no less!!!

I'm getting one, just dunno where to begin lol

they are beutiful though, although i always decied on no fish, as they eat and snap at other fish like grumpy old men

[blockheadman]

dont mix crayfish with fish otherwise you will be pissed

[colinsjunkbin]

Yes, any cray will eat other fish if they can catch them.  That is why I bought this cray in the first place. I used to breed fish (apistogramma cacatuoides, aka triple red cockatoo dwarf cichlids). Any deformed fry have to be culled/killed and I preferred the food-chain method as opposed to by my hand....

[blockheadman]

you telling me..I put a crab in my aquarium 2 years ago. it ate a patty, clipped the fins of my angelfish, ate my kuhli loach, moved decor around, ate all plants

So i put him in my goldfish pond & 3 months later he had disapered

[colinsjunkbin]

He probably moulted and was picked off immediately after when his shell was still soft.

[MamaWildBear]

I have quite a few fish and they are fine with the crayfish. My cory cat hangs out in the "lobster cave." The crayfish definitely disposes of corpses of fish that die of natural causes. I did lose a few rummy nose tetras but don't know if the crayfish picked them off or if they were sick from something else. No other fish has fallen prey and I have neons, angles, cory cat, simensis, clown loaches, mollies, gambusia, black skirts.

[ocarinaoftwilight]

its beatifull your crawfish!

he doesnt eat the other fish?

like that one in the video?

i have one,but its red and brown............

and hunts my fish!

LOL.

[sarcah]

He's beautiful.

[khmerboy6969]

That was cool how he emerged from that foliage like a beast. Darnit I want one, I have ghost shrimp but they are boring. Love that color, do they come in other colors too and is that your only one?

[colinsjunkbin]

They're best kept alone as they'll canibalize each other. He is my only one. To my knowledge they come in blue (equivalent of albino form) and red (natural colour).

[pugmaniac]

haha! cute! you can just hear him( is it a he?) saying: "mine!"

[colinsjunkbin]

lol, yes, he is a he....

[SoundsFantastic]

wish mine would do that, you have to manually put the thing in front of it or else it wont get it... see mine likes to stay in its ship and never come out. Its molted twice now since ive got it. Right before its first molt his antenni got shorter and havent grown back, will they grow back to there normal length?

[Vampiredagon]

There very cool, only that they eat small fish and are very expensive aroun here

[colinsjunkbin]

They'll eat big fish too..... ;)

[TylerJWilliamsTJW]

Say... Where did you get it? I;m getting a new 10 gal. aquarium soon and want one of the little guys to be in it! any help will be appriiciated!

[colinsjunkbin]

They can be found in most local shops (or ordered) in my area of BC.

[TylerJWilliamsTJW]

I like your cray

[aquavitausa]

So beautiful and blue! That's very pretty!

[beatbrigand]

man, they're so pretty. I'd love to see a tank with several electric blue lobsters, mixed in with dwarf blue gouramis, or some guppies with hints of blue, or even blue streak neon tetras, or even a blue beta fish. and then maybe throw in some orange fish for contrast, like bright orange sword tails. But if i were to keep it minimalist, it would be two lobsters, and three blue dwarf gouramis.

[arod2222]

beautiful crayfish.. great video.. i hope you post more of him.. i loved the way he charged the fish

[jay733]

Should of shown a longer clip dude, whould loved to watch it eat it :)

[pamukhome]

I love the blue florida...

[quadri2]

My Cherx Quadricarinatus is faster.

[angeli7]

sniffy

[theeroom]

poor fish lol

[Reptile1988]

Cool cray man! It's pretty!