Phil is a cutie! I am sure he will have a comfortable and loving home with you and your family :) You seem to have many pets - do you have any that you haven´t posted about on Steemit yet?
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Phil is a cutie! I am sure he will have a comfortable and loving home with you and your family :) You seem to have many pets - do you have any that you haven´t posted about on Steemit yet?
Thanks! I hope he will as well :)
Hmm, I think I have posted about all my animals by now. I only have two dogs and (now) two rabbits, as well as a fish tank. And I think we're in a pretty good spot when it comes to the number of animals, and I don't have any plans to get any more for a while. Eventually we want to get a horse, but our life does not really allow us to get one right now, and from what I understand, a single horse would be a lot more work than the four pets we already take care of.
Ah, looks like I only missed the fish tank :) You must have posted about it before I started following you. I have a fish tank too :) But I should actually better call it a crayfish tank - I have always focused more on crayfish and freshwater crabs than on fish. I love crustaceans, they are amazing animals. What species do you keep?
It's not something that I post about a lot. I used to be very into the aquarium hobby at one point, and had 6 different tank up at the same time. But it's a lot of work, and pretty expensive, so I'm not able to spend so much time and money on it anymore.
A crayfish tank sounds cool! I have no experience or knowledge about that, because keeping crayfish (and most other crustaceans) are illegal in Norway.
I'm honestly not even sure what the species I keep are anymore. The tank is mostly filled with members of the Characidae family. These are commonly just known as "tetras" in Norway, but I'm not sure what the English/international lingo for it is. And I also have a few Loricariidae catfish that are doing some cleaning.
Wow, I had no idea keeping crustaceans in fishtanks is not allowed in Norway.
Here is what my fishtank (112 liter) looked like (at one point - I had to "reconstruct" the lay-out quite often because of Claude´s digging spree):
And this is Claude himself:
He is the red-claw crayfish (Cherax Quadricarinatus) but I have kept some other crustacean species too.
And yeah, we also call those fish just tetras ;) I used to have a few species of them too.
Would you mind showing me a photo of your tank? :)
That looks nice! And what a cool crayfish. I can see why you would want to keep these :) Do you typically just keep a single crayfish in a tank, or can you keep several together?
Here's my tank. It's also a 112L tank. It's currently facing some problems with algae after my 2-year old kid began feeding them by himself!
Wow, I like that! Simple but beautiful :) I can see some very familiar fish species there too :)
As for the crayfish - I usually try to keep a pair but for some reason, there is a way more males than females in most crayfish species so I often ended up having males only. It takes a few months before you can determine the sex. Also, once the males get big enough to hurt one another, they start engaging in pretty brutal fights so it is not recommended to keep more than one male in one tank. But I love them. I have had several different species and they are all fun to watch. A few weeks ago, I posted a video footage of one of my crayfish molting on Dlive :) Crustacean molting is a very interesting thing to watch too.
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