Here is how I maintain all my crayfish. They live in strip tanks, meaning no substrate, and are provided multiple 4" sections of PVC Pipe for shelter. I typically put a plastic plant in and weight it down on both ends with the pipe sections.
Food: Crayfish eat everything from biofilm to dead fish. I would feed blanched green peas cut in half, blanched squash, high protein sinking pellet fish food, shrimp pellets and freeze dried or frozen cyclops. The cyclops will send their color off the charts. Decap brine shrimp eggs same thing. Just soak it for a minute and pout it out, they will siphon it out just fine. I also have an over abundance of convict fry that I cut in hald when they are an 1 1/2" and freeze. That makes their color pop as well.---It turns marble crayfish sky blue. For calcium. I take an egg shell and clean it, pulverise it and put it in a jar under the lights or in the window until it is covered with green algea. They love the algea and it breaks down the egg shell so they eat it as well. I also add / hide a few chuncks of egg shell in the tank.
Almost forgot, they love to eat snails and get calcium from them.. You can raise rams horns in a five gal bucket with no air or heat.
Food: Crayfish eat everything from biofilm to dead fish. I would feed blanched green peas cut in half, blanched squash, high protein sinking pellet fish food, shrimp pellets and freeze dried or frozen cyclops. The cyclops will send their color off the charts. Decap brine shrimp eggs same thing. Just soak it for a minute and pout it out, they will siphon it out just fine. I also have an over abundance of convict fry that I cut in hald when they are an 1 1/2" and freeze. That makes their color pop as well.---It turns marble crayfish sky blue. For calcium. I take an egg shell and clean it, pulverise it and put it in a jar under the lights or in the window until it is covered with green algea. They love the algea and it breaks down the egg shell so they eat it as well. I also add / hide a few chuncks of egg shell in the tank.
Almost forgot, they love to eat snails and get calcium from them.. You can raise rams horns in a five gal bucket with no air or heat.
