I know people sometimes keep shrimp or snails in a turtle tanks, but anyone keep crawfish or fiddler crabs in a tank with a mud turtle?
Thanks.I have kept them in fish tanks and if they can catch the fish, they will be having a sushi dinner. I'm guessing they would eat on the turtle too if they can get him. Just a guess.
Crawfish also love to escape.
They climb up air hoses, etc.
Talk about creepy...imagine finding a half dried, half dead crayfish on the way to the bathroom at 2:30 am.
Amphipods are tiny "shrimp" that act as clean up crew. They are too small to be easily eaten by the turtle but the fish will eat them. They can even be raised in the filter.
Oh, MY!!!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing that information!!!!!I have put a couple fiddler crabs in with my razor-back musk turtles. The big crab survived roughly 40 minutes before being a high-calcium snack. The smaller one could hide pretty well and did alright for about 2 months before also being a snack.
@Moozillion , I dont think any plants you put in the tank will survive with your turtle. He will eat them.
I had a lot of excess duckweed from my planted tank and I put some into my slider tank and it was gone very very fast. I never knew my slider to eat plants. Also I think the turtle might dig out any aqua plants you placed. It is not easy to keep plants and turtles togetherI thought mud turtles were mainly carnivorous?