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crawfish from turtle creek ? id please

Started by Guest_CATfishTONY_* , Dec 14 2008 01:59 PM

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#1 Guest_CATfishTONY_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 01:59 PM

it has a blue/green saddle on back with a rust colored dot and pale tan in front of rusty dot.
orange to rusty color @ all body joints. black claws @ front end and tipped in orange.
this craw fish was solid black 3 weeks ago now it is very clean looking and brightly colored
when i found it it looked to be covered in moss. after weeks in this tank it cleaned up
and has started traveling all over the tank in the day light hours.
what should I feed it?
my green sunfish wont let any food hit the tank gravel.

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#2 Guest_CATfishTONY_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 02:36 PM

Rusty Crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) Is this it?
mine has way more color then the ODRN pics
the greens and oranges are very bight all most neon.
sorry by pic is so blurry old cheep camera kodak easy share-3.1mp-dx6340

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#3 Guest_centrarchid_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 02:46 PM

Looks like the classical rusty crayfish to me. I have some experience with taxonomy of this and a couple of its relatives. Coloration in the end quite definitive with nominal rusty. Gonopods not even needed.

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#4 Guest_CATfishTONY_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 02:54 PM

Looks like the classical rusty crayfish to me. I have some experience with taxonomy of this and a couple of its relatives. Coloration in the end quite definitive with nominal rusty. Gonopods not even needed.

this is the most common one from around here.
some times we find tan ones with brown stripes.

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#5 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 03:03 PM

No doubt a rusty crayfish.

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#6 Guest_CATfishTONY_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 03:21 PM

No doubt a rusty crayfish.

i add salt with each water change has this made the crawfish cleanup?
i kill minnows to feed it but the greensun i have is a pig and eats them also
will it eat frozen foods like shrimp?

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#7 Guest_centrarchid_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 03:57 PM

i add salt with each water change has this made the crawfish cleanup?
i kill minnows to feed it but the greensun i have is a pig and eats them also
will it eat frozen foods like shrimp?

Try frozen blood worms, chopped earthworm and any kind sinking pellet with lots of shrimp meal in it. Apply immediately after lights out to foil fish.

Also spice things up with some spinach. Places a couple leaves under rock, as it rots crayfish will consume. Keeps them from turning when growing fast in an indoor tank.

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#8 Guest_CATfishTONY_*

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 05:01 PM

Try frozen blood worms, chopped earthworm and any kind sinking pellet with lots of shrimp meal in it. Apply immediately after lights out to foil fish.

Also spice things up with some spinach. Places a couple leaves under rock, as it rots crayfish will consume. Keeps them from turning when growing fast in an indoor tank.

Ok thanks to all.

tony

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#9 Guest_SunnyRollins_*

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Posted 01 December 2009 - 01:17 PM

Ok thanks to all.

tony

Late, I know, but here's another suggestion.

Banana. You know how when you peel one you get those strands of the peel stuck on the banana? Take a small piece of that and offer it to the cray. I haven't tried this with rusties, but I've had other crayfish eat it. I've seen rusties eat everything from dead leaves to algae to dragonfly naiads. I would not be surprised if they took banana too.

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#10 Guest_AndrewAcropora_*

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Posted 01 December 2009 - 03:50 PM

what should I feed it?

Anything, really. I had a lone crayfish for about four years--it would routinely eat plants, fish, tadpoles, sinking pellets, worms, or whatever it could get its hands on.