Crawfish+Mossball

[POLARBEAR0871]

I have a crawfish and I recently bought a moss ball. The other day I looked in my tank and the moss ball was torn to pieces. Is there any explanation for this happening

 

[Oscar98]

Crayfish

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Same thing

 

[Oscar98]

Srry i was correcting you. Thats the explanation.

Crayfish

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

But why did it do it I just don't understand it and it molted not too long ago and ever since then it's been having this very aggressive attitude when before it was scared of me and its hiding in the plants I have in there it's never done this before

 

[Oscar98]

Idk why it changed attitude but most crayfish will rip up all most all plants/moss balls

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Hmmm I wonder why it loved it before when I first got it it would roll the thing around the tank

 

[Oscar98]

My african cichlids shredded mine. And i had it for over a year with tetras and stuff. Then i got tye africans

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Hmmm I wonder if its something with the moss ball and not the fish

 

[Oscar98]

Fish like to nibble on them. Maybe your crayfish found out he likes the taste of it.

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Lol maybe

 

[Craw Chief]

Crayfish will eat any and all plants. He wasn't doing it out of anger or anything. He was just hungry!

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Oh yeah I forgot they like to eat plants

 

[Cammywammy]

Yeah crawfish love to destroy plants

 

[Cardex]

Hmmm I wonder why it loved it before when I first got it it would roll the thing around the tank

My clown loach does that with mine he plays soccer with an arch on the driftwood just pusses it under then swims to the other side and pushes it back

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

You've gotta take a video of that and post that that sounds awesome yeah I put another plant in the tank with the cray and it snipped like 3-4 leaves off the water Lilly and then I think it figured out it can blend in with it

 

[misterpenguin4]

In the wild crayfish snip/rip up plants so they float up and helps the hide them from birds, racoons, ect. So it could be instinct.

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Ok did not know that that's really kewl

 

[Darkseid76]

I had a cray that used to pull up my cabomba and eat the roots. EVERY TIME.

Man he was a pain lol

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Yeah mine is doing that to y water lily