How to Care For A Crayfish

Crayfish can be a great pet if you know their needs and how to look after them.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 10 gallon aquarium (The bigger the better)
• Shrimp pellets
• Hiding Places (Pot, Caves, Rock...)
• Plastic or real plants
• Filter
• Aquatic gravel
• Aquasafe
• Crayfish
• Lid

1. 10 Gallon Tank You need a ten gallon aquarium to hold one crayfish. If you want to hold two you should get a twenty gallon aquarium. They are terrestrial so it's best to keep them by themselves.
2. Aquarium Gravel Measure the bottom area of the aquarium in inches and divided by twenty, that's how many pounds of aquarium gravel you need.
3. My Crayfish Aquarium Add the plants in. If you have real plants let the plants to grow and settle for three weeks. If fake wait for about 3 days before adding the crayfish.
4. You need at least three hiding spots for each crayfish.
5. Change 25% of the water every two weeks. If you don't have filters change them everyday.
6. Shrimp Pellets Feed them mostly shrimp pellets, but they eat a lot of thing form vegetables to fruits. Do not over feed only two pellet for each crayfish everyday. Feed at dusk and dawn.
7. Crayfish like darkness because they are nocturnal, so don't disturb them a lot.
8. Aquasafe If you are using tap water you need to put some aquasafe in it.
9. You absolutely need a tight lid they will escape. I learned the hard way when my crayfish died.

Tips & Warnings

• If the crayfish molts, leave the old shell in and don't feed him for three days because he will eat his shell first.
• Don't fill the aquarium full of water or you will give the crayfish an easy escape
• Hold the crayfish on the back, or you'll get pinched!