Im just wondering why when you walk into LFS do you see some crayfish in the feeder fish tanks. Are they in there just to consume dead fish? or is there another reason behind them?
Crayfish in feeder fish tanks?
- Thread starter sivic
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Your probibly dead on. I've never seen this but i wouldent dout that some LFS's are that resourceful. As i dont use feeders i never acualy look in there tanks.
Way back in the day when I worked in a LFS, we never purchased or intentionally ordered crayfish for the feeder tanks. On occasion, one or two would simply come in the bag with the feeders. I understood that the feeder fish "farm" did keep them for clean up in their stocking tanks and would nab one or two on accident...
We just let them hang out in the feeder tanks until someone asked to purchase them! My boss used to sell them for $.99 if someone wanted them!
We just let them hang out in the feeder tanks until someone asked to purchase them! My boss used to sell them for $.99 if someone wanted them!
aknif said:
aknif hit it right on the head.
They just show up in the bags from time to time.
I don't know if they are purposely put in the suppliers ponds or they are just a result of the suppliers having ponds in the right places.
We (BA's Montreal) have had all sorts of wild things come in with the feeders.
Large bullfrog tadpoles, crayfish, shrimp, very large bugs we even had a cichlid come in once. I grabbed it and am growing it out right now.
I call it my goldfish cichlid because it is still unidentified. It does look like some sort of gupote though. It has changed colors about 5 times now. Right now it is red with one black vertical stripe and 2 black dots on the tail.
I'll know more once it gets a little bigger.
My LFS does not keep the feeder tanks out in view, I don't know if thats a good thing or a bad thing?!?! But wouldn't a crayfish eat the healthy fish too? Or would he probably have enough dead fish and not a big enough diet to do any real harm to the supply?
But if they just showed up in a bag with the feeder fish, wouldnt they just dump the crayfish in with the other crayfish? Im curious cause im about to breed some feeder guppies for my 2 ropefish and was considering if crayfish were the way to go to help assist cleaning up the dead fish.
sivic said:
I can tell that you have never seen how feeders arrive.
Think if a small garbage bag (you know kitchen catcher type)
Now think that there are 500 feeders in this bag when shipped.
There are times where there is litterally more fish than water in the bag. Just enough to keep them moist.
When you dump this bag you really have no clue what is going to be in there.
It is really discusting the way that they are shipped.
Sivic
Hopefully you won't have a bunch of dead fish if you're raising feeders, but if you need a cleanup crew, go with ghost shrimp. They are extremely industrious. They're really good at getting in the nooks and cranies. They will eat some algea, and will not snag a live fish like a crayfish might sometimes be tempted to do.
Hopefully you won't have a bunch of dead fish if you're raising feeders, but if you need a cleanup crew, go with ghost shrimp. They are extremely industrious. They're really good at getting in the nooks and cranies. They will eat some algea, and will not snag a live fish like a crayfish might sometimes be tempted to do.
I asked a Petsmart employee this same question and she said they come in with feeder fish on occasion. Because Petsmart doesn't sell crayfish they don't have a barcode loaded for them so she said I could buy any that come in for the same as a feeder. 26c. Makes me want a Crayfish tank just because I can get them so cheap.