snails and crawdads (freshwater lobster)

[BEANS]

Hey all, Today I collected some snails (look like pond snails but a little larger) and some smaller crawdads from a local creek here where I live. I put them in some of my tank water in seperate bowls from my two tanks. I was wondering if it is safe to add them to my snail / ghost shrimp tank and eventually feed them to my fahaka puffer in my 75g. I have seen and read that fahaka puffers eat fresh water lobsters but I wasnt sure if this could harm them since they came from a creek where I lived.

thanks for any information.

 

[fort384]

Beans, try posting this in the general FW forum. You may get more replies.

 

[ezy33]

Wild caught critters have different parasites than tropical fish. I would expect you will end up having a maybe three crawdads in your tank.