FEEDING – Marbled Crayfish love a variety of natural foods. One of their favorite is live snails. If you have a “snail problem” in any aquarium, simply run a net on the aquarium glass where the snails live and breed; and empty the net of snails into the Marbled Cray tank. This is very healthy for the crays, whose diet otherwise is vegetarian. They love to live plants from your local pet store – Anacharis and Cabomba are favorites. Algae tabs are good but tend to make the tank dirty more quickly than other foods. You can actually affect the color of your crays by the foods you feed them – turning whole crays green, red, etc based on the food you feed them. Sliced CUCUMBERS are a big favorite – sink them with the lead weights which come with aquarium plants.
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