Lobsters what to feed them?

[fish_are_family]

I have four lobster that I recieved about a month ago and I have no idea what to feed them :? They are getting really big and seem to be doing ok, but I feel like I am supposed to be feeding them something that I am not. There are other fish in the tank with them and they all seem to get along well. When I feed the fish any of their food that floats down to the bottom the lobsters eat. I also have these algae discs and they absolutely love them but they make the water so cloudy that I am looking for something else to feed them. The question is what? :?

If there is anybody who can help me I would really appreciate it? [/b]

 

[William]

Lobsters, if I'm not mistaken, will eat anything off the bottom.

Shrimp Pellets, Algae Wafers, Dead Fish, Food that others didn't eat,ect ect


Hikari Algae Waffers won't cloud your tank

 

[fish_are_family]

Thank you very much I will look into getting some different algae waffers and maybe some other things for them to eat. They always seem hungry!

 

[Timanator]

Lobsters in fresh water?

I know this is an old post.

 

[lyquidphyre]

What other fish do you have with your lobsters? I want lobstes so badly but I when I started my tank I thought they were salt water and set up my tank and now that I have fish that arent compatible I found out that lobsters are freshwater.

 

[Megalofyia]

it's it a lobster or a crawdad? I know at the LFS they have my crawdad listed as a blue lobster.

 

[Allivymar]

Most true lobsters are salt water. That being said, there are a number of crustaceans which resemble lobsters (mostly crawdads aka crawfish aka crayfish as Megalofyia said) pretty strongly which survive well in FW aquariums. There is also one freshwater lobster; its not normally found in home aquaria as its a really big bugger (5 kilograms and 80 cm long) and is endangered (its found in Tasmania; called the Giant Freshwater Lobster aka Astacopsis gouldi)

 

[madasafish]

I feed my crayfish (blue crayfish: Procambarus clarkii) algae wafers, and was recommended to do so by a breeder. I have the Wardley "Spirulina Discs" which have never clouded up my tank.

 

[TheNewGuy]

I would stay away from shrimp pellets. I had three crawdads in my tank for a couple of months and they seemed to be very happy. I picked up some shrimp pellets for my loaches and the crawdads loved them so i would feed them pellets all the time after about 2 weeks all of the mud bugs died within a couple days of each other. I checked the water and everything looked good. so I'm going to guess and say it had something to do with the shrimp pellets.

 

[Bearfan]

Algae Wafers do just fine for "blue lobsters". Careful, they are escape artists.