Upgrading Zoidberg's tank!

[deranged chipmunk]

looks great Michelle! Zoidberg looks very happy in his new crib sorry, i got tied up in a little project today. crayfish are greatlittle creatures. i never kept any "normal" sized ones. but i used to breed cpo's back in the day. since they were small, they never bothered my plants or shrimp. they would just dig their caves and crawl out to feed. i think i have to get more of those little suckers one of these days now all you have to do in the summer is go scouting areas out and find him a girlfriend and you can have Zoid-ettes....lol

[deeishealthy]

The things you learn... I would so enjoy watching such an industrious creature. Huh!

[HerpDerp]

Thanks, Bill! I just looked up CPOs. They look really cool. I wish I could get stuff like that around here! As it is, I'm "technically" not supposed have Zoidberg... hehe. I'm sure I don't have to worry about a game warden coming and busting down my door anytime soon though LOL. A female would be pretty awesome, but I'm fairly certain the tank is just a bit too small for two. Zoidberg is territorial when I put my finger to the glass, I can only imagine what he would do to another crayfish! But ironically enough, he hasn't touched the feeder guppies. So I have 5 females now and three males. And I got an odd little bonus with them: A water beetle!? I know feeders can have all sorts of weird things shipped with them thanks to being bred in outdoor ponds... but this is strange to me lol. I put it in my tank (what else can I do?? I wouldn't want to kill it) and it seems to just do its own thing... for now lol. I figure it will either control guppy populations or Zoidberg will control the water beetle population LOL.

[exasperatus2002]

Crayfish are cool critters. There used to be a site dedicated to keeping them but it shut down.

[HerpDerp]

Crayfish are cool critters. There used to be a site dedicated to keeping them but it shut down.

It's surprisingly tough to find good info on keeping crayfish. It all seems to be the same info over and over again. And even though most are cold water species the majority of info I've found was on tropical species, go figure! A site like that would have been helpful lol. So far I've just used my knowledge of typical Maine habitat and waters do care for him, along with some further research on their typical habitat. This has got to be the easiest species to care for though since they're known to be invasive outside of their typical range lol. And I found him in a nasty pond full of chemicals and very low oxygen levels.

On another note, the bug in my tank is NOT a water beetle. After some research I have discovered that it is a water boatman bug that is herbivorous. So much for it controlling baby guppy blooms! Very cool addition to my tank though! Wonder what other critters I could keep to make it more natural... LOL.

[NatureLady]

I keep some at my work also. They are my little interior decorators and mine love minnows as a snack. I house mine with a Green Sunfish and two very quick rosy minnows. I put plant cuttings into my tank to allow mine to explore, eat, and destroy every now and then.