More details about your tank can help troubleshoot. Im suspecting that he doesn't have shelter to hide, or perhaps feeding diet issues?
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I just bought my blue lobster from a lfs near my place. i brought it home and place it in my tank.. with a few small guppies, but, in 3days, it suddenly die.. when i place it in the tank, it will always try to climb out, but on the the 2nd day, it did not move much, but 3rd day, in the morning it was moving, but when i got home in the afternoon it suddenly not moving, DEAD!!!! why will it happen? all my other guppies were fine, but not my blue lobster.. what can i do to my tank to make it a better living place for lobster. pls help me!!!
More details about your tank can help troubleshoot. Im suspecting that he doesn't have shelter to hide, or perhaps feeding diet issues?
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What is ideal parameters for your guppies might not be ideal for the crayfish.
Lobsters need shelter and air. Climbing up may indicate lack of air in the water for it.
Hi!!! Thanks for the replies.. yes i have place some pvc pipes into the tank.. and i on the air pump every time in the morning and night when i am around.. because it will get hot, so i only on it when i am home.. for diet, i use sinking pellet to feed it..i am using a plug and use tank.. its using using overhead filter for it.. what else i need to do? Thanks alot in advance for the advise and help!!!
The pump should be on all the time. If the air pump is not on, the lobster has to go to the surface for air, hence the climbing. I think your lobster drowned.
I believe temperature isn't really an issue for most of them, i used to own 3 red claw lobster, a cherax quadricarinatus, and a cherax destructor. Small tank placed directly below window with window opened, operated with HOB filter and an air pump -> airstone. They live happily, just that i get greenwater issues quite often.
For the climbing out part, i believe its normal, my curious lobsters used to climb around the tank, even climbed out once when i set up my moss wall. Its only when the water is really bad (to the extend of foul smelling due to decaying corpse from feeders) then i can see them climbing to the top and hang sideway to breathe.
I think the actual term for it should be crayfish, not lobster. Below is my setup. One cray stalking the feeder fish while another is hiding in the corner. There is one more cray hiding in the cave below the mountain.
yabby needs some place to hide and dig.
to escape or rather go around is in their nature, unless the water is super foul to them.
think its better to refer them as crayfish for local name. lobster... lol pretty misleading.
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If it died within just 3 days, it could be due to unsuitable water conditions (guppies can tolerate foul water way more than shrimps/crayfish)... or your tank could be okay and unluckily it just died of stress during transition or from pre-existing illness.
ok!!! thanks alot for all the information about the blue crayfish.. maybe i should wait awhile longer before i can keep a crayfish... Thanks alot!!!
I keep 2 red crayfish, they are really hardy creatures. Just keep the aeration on all the time. Keeping it long term will have to pay attention to the diet. I fed one of my crayfish with too much fish food and it lost a few limbs during the molt.
Luckily it is growing back the lost limbs after the latest molt, just a lot smaller. I guess it will take some time to grow back to original size. here is some photos. The one arm crayfish is the female and the other is a male. One thing with keeping them with fishes is they will try very hard to catch and eat them
My old cray, losing limbs are common during moulting, this guy lost his claw once, recovered After 2-3 moult. While recovering, I dropped pellet food instead of live food for easy eating.
Generally, they can live in almost any kind of water, my water parameters are real bad back then, because I just started the hobby and only used a small hob in a 2ft, water was smelly and brown, clown loach die off within an hour in the water But he survives somehow
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20130605_200436.jpg My current cray, have 4 others but this is the biggest. i never had any issues with them trying to escape the tank. they are very very adaptable to their environment and they do not die easily.
I suspect that it already had some problems at the LFS where you bought it from.
I'm pretty worried about my female crayfish. She lost 1 claw and 3 legs during previous previous molt. She have only start growing back a small part of the claw and 2 legs. 1 leg is still missing!! While it will not affect her mobility i would like to ask other owners of crayfish if i can expect the other small leg to grow back during future molts. It feels pretty weird to me why she did not grow back all her legs. lol
I won't be worried. They do grow back. I have a cray that lost 1 claw and 2 legs in a fight. Now, the claw has grown back and one leg. The other is growing. I will try to post some pictures when I get them. Perhaps, we should open a new thread about crays instead of hijacking this thread.
Dead blue crayfish = bad water quality, insufficient aeration, inability to moult.
Crayfish do not like dirty water. A rise in nitrates or nitrites can kill them, same with ammonia. Treat them as you would with shrimps, and they will survive for a long time.
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Back to Killies... slowly.
I had a red and a blue, but the red died after a moult. Left the blue survivor.
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