do crayfish eat snails?

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do crayfish eat snails?

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would a crayfish about 3-4'' eat ramshorns if they where put in the same tank?
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crayfish eat everything they can catch
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They sure would try
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My crayfish dont touch the adult snails, but they do eat the eggs
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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I've seen my crays try to eat small MTS... but IMO, if there's an easier to get food source, they're go for that.
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I want to feed the cray to my fahaka, but my OH wont let me :?
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OH???
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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last week thread, but yes crays will eat everything they can, I made the mistake putting in two mables in my snail farm.... week later all the snails are dead... Just recently my biggest cray murdered and ate half the body of the 2nd biggest before I noticed...
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