Can cichlids live with crayfish

[MineShaker]

I was just wondering if cichlids can live with crayfish this is the one I'm thinking of getting


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[TMRC Exotics]

Metriaclima estherae, mean as in cichlids go but crayfish make me nervous with any fish, especially the larger varieties which are most common.

 

[hlauriza]

Everything would be fine until the crayfish molted. If the cichlid was aggressive enough it could take this opportunity to eat the cray fish. I have not had this happen to me personally but I have read about it because I wanted to put a blue lobster in my tank.

 

[TMRC Exotics]

That and when fish sleep is when the crayfish will attack. This is all dependent on type but personally I don't trust big predatory inverts with fish and cichlids could harass the cray during the day.

 

[LayzorBeams]

They usually work with mid-sized New World cichlids but i wouldnt put the with Africans, which is what you have.


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[Nils]

I wouldn't try it. Is this the tank you have the puffer in? If so it wouldn't work anyway. Somebody will get eaten or attacked until they die.

 

[snowman17]

I had one of the blue ones they sell in fish stores and he lasted maybe 3 weeks before he was torn apart by my African cichlids.

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