at what size can fahakas tackle live crabs/crayfish?

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at what size can fahakas tackle live crabs/crayfish?

Post by lesleyanndunn »

you can get small red clawed tropical crabs.
at what size can a fahaka take on one?
mines about 2" at the moment.
do you need to take off crab pinchers?
or wait until fahaka grows couple more inches?
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Re: at what size can fahakas tackle live crabs/crayfish?

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better to take off the pinchers, id wait till at least 6 inches tho, but all in all live food has chance of carry parasites and not worth the risk, > imo <
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I think small crays have thinner shells.
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Post by StriGoi »

I gave my puffy crabs, crayfish, small lobsters (i think thats what their called), big snails, etc.

Puffy is about 6" in length w/o tail.

He just loves the crabs.
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DarkStorm wrote:better to take off the pinchers,
or this happens hehehe....

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Post by Ohyouknow »

My LFS has fiddler crabs for $2. Their body is about the size of a quarter, and my fahaka is about 3 inches long with tail. I left the pinchers on, and the crab didn't stand a chance. :) Gobble Gobble Crunch.
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Korr is that yours? if so did he get it off himself?
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