Poofaye C.
11-13-2008, 04:06 PM
Just want some opinions.......
I visited my local ma & pa shop yesterday. I always get pretty good deals, but even better advise there. We're talking about crayfish when I ask about tank size in order to house two. I tell him I don't want them fighting to the death. He then drops a bomb on me. Tells me as long as I trim the pinchers they might have minor conflicts, but won't be able to kill one another.
He explains how to properly execute this procedure. You know, the humane way. He goes on to further explain, by doing this, I would be able to put a few in my community tank.
Am I nuts here?!? Is this not cruel?!!?
I use to have a large mouth bass for a while. The only reason I didn't feed him crayfish is, he wasn't but about 4". I didn't know when bass ate crawdads in the wild, age wise. I was worried about thoose pinchers. People told me to trimthe pinchers for that. I did take that into consideration.
So wha cha'll think about trimming crayfish pinchers, either for compatibility or feeding purposes?
I visited my local ma & pa shop yesterday. I always get pretty good deals, but even better advise there. We're talking about crayfish when I ask about tank size in order to house two. I tell him I don't want them fighting to the death. He then drops a bomb on me. Tells me as long as I trim the pinchers they might have minor conflicts, but won't be able to kill one another.
He explains how to properly execute this procedure. You know, the humane way. He goes on to further explain, by doing this, I would be able to put a few in my community tank.
Am I nuts here?!? Is this not cruel?!!?
I use to have a large mouth bass for a while. The only reason I didn't feed him crayfish is, he wasn't but about 4". I didn't know when bass ate crawdads in the wild, age wise. I was worried about thoose pinchers. People told me to trimthe pinchers for that. I did take that into consideration.
So wha cha'll think about trimming crayfish pinchers, either for compatibility or feeding purposes?