Is it possible to keep a freshwater crab, freshwater lobster (crayfish), a terrapin, some cichlids, tiger barbs, gold fish, and maybe some neon tetra, in addition to some water plants? how big will the tank need to be?
2007-10-06 17:38:14 · 7 answers · asked by teh-c-beng 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
The first thing would be: you cannot keep Goldfish (coldwater fish) with tropical fish like Cichlids, Tetras, and Barbs. Next, depending on the types of Cichlids (Dwarf South American Cichlids are good, African and large SAs are bad), you may or may not be able to keep plants. Most freshwater crabs are not true freshwater crabs, but brackish water. By keeping brackish crabs in freshwater, you are slowly killing them. Lobsters get quite large and will attack your other fish, so they are out as well. Neons will be eaten by most Cichlids (all African except Kribensis, and any large SA Cichlids), so I can't recommend Neons either. Terrapin (a type of turtle) will eat all your fish, so they are also out of the question.
That leaves you with Cichlids and Tiger Barbs. Get two pairs of Dwarf South American Cichlids like Rams or Apistos (2 pairs of ONE species, or one pair OF EACH along with a school of 7 Tiger Barbs in a 30 gallon tank. For live plants, use Anubias, Cryptocoryne, Swords, Sagittaria, Vallisneria, Java Moss, or Java Fern to plant. Most of the plants are easily grown with special lighting (CO2 addition is GREAT too). Email me if you have any questions.
Soop Nazi
2007-10-06 17:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I know the neons will not make it, they will be lunch for the crab and the crayfish. The barbs will be next on the menu.then the goldfish. So just do the crab and the crayfish and they will fight it out and you will either have a tank with a wounded crayfish or a wounded crab . Hope this answers your question! Oh! The terrapin hummm ,who knows. Check please !
2007-10-06 17:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by trkbuilderman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't want to mix gold fish with other kinds of fish; the food is different. Also, some good tank mates for cichlids include gouramis, peaceful cichlids, other barbs, sharks, catfish, and danios.
2007-10-06 17:44:48 · answer #3 · answered by songlismom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok Crayfish will hunt at night, and it will sneak up to unsuspected sleeping/resting fish and kill thme for pray.
Crayfish are active hunters, unless you have enough vegetation covering to let your fish rest/hide, don;t consider having fish and crayfish live together in harmony
one of my fish was killed by my pet crayfish, it poke its eyes our and ate it :(
2007-10-06 17:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short answer....absolutely not. None of the fish you have listed are compatible with each other no matter how large the tank is.
2007-10-06 17:52:24 · answer #5 · answered by galapagos6 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
remeber to build not a glass one..
u wd get poor breedin..
it wd be beeten with a 10 feet eathen...
2007-10-06 17:43:56 · answer #6 · answered by aswin_james 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure you can, but you dont need a tank you can do it with a bucket.
2007-10-06 18:38:49 · answer #7 · answered by Zod i 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋