Lobster

Your lobster should be ok with the irridescent sharks.If it were 5 or 6 inch oscars I would so no. When I kept oscars they would love to eat lobsters even the ones that were same size as them.
 
FishNthings said:
ok, so the tides have turned lol...i didnt realize he will molt his whole skeleton like that, is this something i'm going to be able to see? How long will he be w/out a protective skeleton? As for driftwood, i dont have anything, but i put one of those rock caves towards the back, he's already been sitting inside of it, i havent seen the fish swim through it once yet. Would this be adequate or should i still look for driftwood? Thanks for the info all.
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You'll see the exoskeleton and likely swear it's the crayfish dead. My son had dried one and brings it in for show-and-tell. I've never seen the actual shedding process. The new skeleton hardens in a couple of days. The last time mine shedded he lost his large claws. He still eats fine so I'm not concerned and his tankmates are probably relieved.
 
"Monster" is almost 3 years old now, a good 6 inches long, and hasn't molted in 8 months (the bugger!). In all that time, I've seen him catch 3 fish - a baby pleco, an upside-down catfish about 1.5 bigger than him (I told my GF not to put it in the tank) and a betta. Until today, he was in a 20g with about a dozen other fish - a few plattys, a few black neons, a few scissortails, and a few guppies - and he never caugh one of those. Nor did he catch the bamboo shrimp in there.

Anyways, the moral of the story is... if he gets a hold of it, it's dead.


Mind you, I too have seen oscar's each crays, but they weren't alive at the time...
 
ghinksmon said:
You'll see the exoskeleton and likely swear it's the crayfish dead.
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Wow, he just molted last night! I woke up and before work went to feed them, and i saw it upside down and almost had a heart attack, i was thinking (i just bought this thing and hes already dead!!?) But then i saw him in the cave and remembered what you said above. LOL So now i can take that out of the tank and preserve it? How can i preserve it anyways? Aside from that i dont want to open up another water clearity thread for this question, but if anyone knows i'd be very appreciative....everytime i do a partial water change my water clouds up and NEVER gets clear again until weeks and weeks later after using "jungle" water clear. And that only lasts for about a week before it clouds up again. My 10 gal is always crystal clear i do everything the same in it...WHATS WRONG W/ MY 30 GAL!!!???
 
Well, I imagine it would just require a dry (non-humid) area to sit in for a while. I have no idea what putting it in a container (closed-lid) would do, but thats an option.

As a side note, 3240 gallons of water is approximately 27,000 pounds. Add a few more pounds on with gravel, driftwood, plant biomass... Basement was a good idea.
 
I know not of preservation, but I do know that most crayfish will eat their own shell to more quickly replace their own. And given he's in a tank with other, larger fish, this may be a better idea.
 
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