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Escaping Crayfish

Started by Guest_vasiliy_* , Jul 20 2007 09:58 PM

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#1 Guest_vasiliy_*

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 09:58 PM

I have a crayfish in my aquarium. He has enough space to run around at night, he gets enough food, and the water is clean. The first thing he does to try to escape is to crawl on the air pump hose, but there is a lid on my aquarium. So he started flipping his tail like when he is getting away and he kept flipping his tail and "swam" to the filter intake tube and almost crawled out. Right now I can use only the air pump, so I am wondering if there are other filters besides the traditional filter and the undergravel filter. I can't use the undergravel filter because I also keep a weather loach (the crayfish doesn't eat him) that likes to get under the undergravel filter and that is unhealthy for him.

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#2 Guest_fuzzyletters_*

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 10:46 PM

Haha you should name him after King Kong looking at that second picture...

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#3 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 21 July 2007 - 03:15 PM

II am wondering if there are other filters besides the traditional filter and the undergravel filter.

Yeah, there are internal power filters you can use that will allow you to completely cover the tank.

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#4 Guest_bullhead_*

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Posted 21 July 2007 - 10:46 PM

Or internal air driven box filters. (Do they even make those anymore? I am sure I have some in a box somwhere.) And sponge filters (although the crayfish may decide to pick it apart).

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#5 Guest_AndrewAcropora_*

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Posted 22 July 2007 - 02:21 AM

Or internal air driven box filters.

I second this suggestion. And yes, they do still make them. This would be your best bet in my opinion.

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#6 Guest_joia2181_*

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Posted 23 July 2007 - 10:31 AM

I woke up Sunday morning to an oddly quiet house. After searching for the cats I found both cornering this big dust ball. A cray did the same Houdini act up the HOB to freedom. Poor guy was minutes from drying out and missing a claw. I was just hoping I wasn't going to find a hair/crayfish ball later on. Dam cats.

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#7 Guest_vasiliy_*

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Posted 24 July 2007 - 10:12 PM

Did your crayfish survive? If he survived how did he survive? I remember an other time when my crayfish escaped I found him about three hours later on the kitchen floor. He was still wet and he survived. But I remember another time when my crayfish escaped I found him 12 hours later nearby the aquarium, it was hard to tell that he was still alive. I put him back and two days later he was back to normal, running around and I think he also ate, but on the third day he died in the aquarium. Do you or anyone else know how I could have prevented his death?

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#8 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 05:09 PM

A good dose of Copper Sulfate would have cured him pretty quick.

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#9 Guest_vasiliy_*

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 08:14 PM

What is copper sulfate and can I buy some at pet stores? And also, I know they need copper for building up their shell, but how does that help my crayfish after he escaped?

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#10 Guest_hmt321_*

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 09:48 PM

don't people use that to get rid of snails?

copper is not good for inverts

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#11 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 10:14 PM

A good dose of Copper Sulfate would have cured him pretty quick.

don't people use that to get rid of snails?

copper is not good for inverts

That is a classic "Irate-ism"

For what it's worth....I've always had problems with crayfish. If they're not eating tankmates, they're molting and then tankmates eat them or parts here and there. If they're not doing either of the previous, they're planning the next escape. Very tight lids (especially near any air or water tubes in and out of the tank)will go a long way in preventing escape in my experience.