Peeley
Aquarium Advice Regular
I know alot of people have stories like these, but they are still funny when they happen to your very own.
This morning, at around 7am while I was enjoying the last couple of minutes before I had to catch a bus to campus for the day, I noticed that I was short one crawfish in my tank (which is 21" tall if i remember correctly). I looked all over inside the tank, then on the floor around, under the couch, but i had to leave... I figured "she died and my roommate flushed her" was a more likely theory than "she sprung out of my tank" (there is very little space to get out of the tank, right around the filter). I went to school, went to work, worried about my little crawfish, waiting to get home at 4:something to resume the search.
I have access to a computer at work and was talking to my other roommate online, told her what happened at maybe around noon. Later, at about 3:30 (now), she tells me she found it by the door in the laundry room, covered in lint! She was afraid to pick it up but I said she cant hurt her, so she tossed the little bugger back into the tank.
Ha!
Now, to find a way to cover the opening...
In other news: my crawfish tore up my two pathetic little plants, and the remains (which i think could have been replanted nicely) floated up to the top. I left them there pending a decision on what to do with them. My crazy crawfish climb to the top of the filter intake and swim backward off of it, grabbing anything they can. If they are lucky, it is one of my floating plants. They start eating it as they sink to the bottom with it, and when they lose their piece or need more they repeat the skydiving adventure.
Thank god my fish are too big for them to challenge.
This morning, at around 7am while I was enjoying the last couple of minutes before I had to catch a bus to campus for the day, I noticed that I was short one crawfish in my tank (which is 21" tall if i remember correctly). I looked all over inside the tank, then on the floor around, under the couch, but i had to leave... I figured "she died and my roommate flushed her" was a more likely theory than "she sprung out of my tank" (there is very little space to get out of the tank, right around the filter). I went to school, went to work, worried about my little crawfish, waiting to get home at 4:something to resume the search.
I have access to a computer at work and was talking to my other roommate online, told her what happened at maybe around noon. Later, at about 3:30 (now), she tells me she found it by the door in the laundry room, covered in lint! She was afraid to pick it up but I said she cant hurt her, so she tossed the little bugger back into the tank.
Ha!
Now, to find a way to cover the opening...
In other news: my crawfish tore up my two pathetic little plants, and the remains (which i think could have been replanted nicely) floated up to the top. I left them there pending a decision on what to do with them. My crazy crawfish climb to the top of the filter intake and swim backward off of it, grabbing anything they can. If they are lucky, it is one of my floating plants. They start eating it as they sink to the bottom with it, and when they lose their piece or need more they repeat the skydiving adventure.
Thank god my fish are too big for them to challenge.
The guy I'm buying from recommended them, though. He said he'd had quite good success with them and the crayfish... I'd be a little hesitant, myself! There ARE some peaceable species of Mbuna, e.g. the gena Otopharynx, Copadichromis. These guys are only micropredators and plankton eaters, so they might be compatible. I probably wouldn't combine the crayfish with Yellow Labs, though!... 
