How to make sure my handicapped dwarf cray gets fed!

[Atom]

I recently got a mexican dwarf crayfish. He was the last one at the store and was missing 2 legs on one side. He seems to be coping well, but I'm worried he will be out competed for food. He lives with 2 amanos and they are aggressive feeders.

Any tips on how to feed him and or what? Perhaps something larger so the amanos can't dine and dash?

I tried feeding him my shrimp pellets. He doesn't seem interested.

[Tarobot]

bigger piece of algae wafer

[Morainy]

Oh, poor little guy. Actually, I don't know what these guys eat. Patrick might know. Maybe you can send him a PM.

[grizadams_7mm]

I'm not a pro with dwarf crays, but I do have 3 Marbled crays. The missing legs should grow back as part of the molting cycle. My crays do like larger algae wafers, really meant for large plecos. They also like the Cichlid pellets, when the shrimp are done your cray should just hop right in. I wouldn't think missing legs would hinder it, missing claws maybe but not really a leg.

[Keri]

I always make sure to put at least 3 chunks of food in my shrimp tank so the two amanos each get one and everybody else shares the rest. Your cray might like the algae discs or bottom bites? His legs will grow back at the next molt

[Atom]

Amanos always seem to be greedy feeders. I'm afraid if I put in large pieces they may gorge themselves. I tried spot feeding the cray today by squirting a pellet directly in front of him. I think he ate most of it. The amanos were definitely waiting for him to let go of it even though they already ate theirs. Greedy buggers.

I hope his legs do grow back soon. He walks fine, but he doesn't seem to want to climb the rocks. I wonder if it's because of his missing legs.

[Morainy]

Do you have a way to post pics? I love following this story of your lop-legged cray.

By the way, I took everything out of my Ebi and replaced the substrate and rescaped it completely. I only had 3 female endlers in there, and I've moved them into my endler tank. Now I'm pondering what to put into it.

[gklaw]

He will get its legs back soon enough.

[Atom]

Do you have a way to post pics? I love following this story of your lop-legged cray.

By the way, I took everything out of my Ebi and replaced the substrate and rescaped it completely. I only had 3 female endlers in there, and I've moved them into my endler tank. Now I'm pondering what to put into it.

Morainy,

I'll update his growth progress in this thread. I've named him Tiny Tim

http://www.bcaquaria.com/forum/tank-...nctuary-20991/

I think you should start a new Ebi journal! Interested to see what it looks like now. Did you end up getting anymore crays for yourself? I got the last from AW, but they are getting more this week and Canadian Aquatics has some.

[Morainy]

Where did you get your 4 gallon nano tank from? It's very nice.