RCS and crayfish?

[Armoredspider]

I really like the look of the electric blue crayfish but I also really like yellow RCS and endlers. Could I mix these? I am afraid the crayfish might eat both and my live plants.

 

[bettaowner]

You instinct is right. Crayfish and plants do not mix. They also eat any small live foods including shrimp. I think there are blue shrimp that are safe to mix with other shrimp as long as they don't create hybrids. The babies will be ugly.

 

[Tetra1990]

Your cray will eat just about anything. Live plants included. If you really want fish with it, I would go for zebra danios. Very fast and are hard for the cray to catch.

 

[ShawnKC]

Your cray will eat just about anything. Live plants included. If you really want fish with it, I would go for zebra danios. Very fast and are hard for the cray to catch.

Not fast enough though...lol. I have a blue cray in my tank with zebra danios and black skirt tetras and he has taken out 4 danios and a tetra. I am going to be moving him to a species tank this weekend. There are also 2 flame gouramis in the tank which spend quite a bit of time low in the tank and swim right past him and he makes no aggressive moves towards them, so go figure.