Crayfish are omnivorous and will eat a wide variety of foods, including plants, insects, frog eggs, small fish, dead plants and animals and worms. They commonly feed on submerged, decaying vegetation, deriving nutrients mainly from the bacteria and other decomposers associated with it.
Common Name: Crayfish (Crawfish, Crawdad, Freshwater Lobster, etc.).
A crawfish's favorite food is soft, decomposing plant matter; however, they will eat just about anything : algae, snails, insects, plants, dead fish, etc. Crawfish are cannibals and will even consume other crawfish that are molting.They will also take food and bury it near the entrance of their den, just like a dog buries a bone.
**In rivers and lakes, crayfish are omnivorous ~ they'll eat dead carcasses, fish eggs, live minnows, plants, algae, leaf litter, all manner of stuff found on the bottoms of water bodies. One caution; crayfish can survive out of water, so be sure to have a lid and/or very steep sides on any container or terrarium you're putting them in, if you are keeping them at home. By Kelly Stettner, Director of the Black River Action Team blackrivercleanup (at) Yahoo.com
For food, they'll eat basically anything. Really! In the wild they are scavengers, though if they can catch a fish, they'll eat it, they mainly eat carrion or plant matter, and detritous on the pond bottom. We feed ours once a week, just kitchen scraps; uncooked veggie scraps anywhere from carrot peels to pea pods to the ends of a cucumber, anything veggie, or slices of orange, apple, whatever. Give them this once a week, and once every month give them some lean red meat or calimari (squid, which we find works best). You can use the tablets you can sometimes find at petshops for them, too, sometimes you can find crayfish food, or use bottom feeder (fish) food, as well. IMPORTANT; do not overfeed them. Whatever you do feed them, don't leave it in the tank longer than two hours, or it will start to pollute the tank. If they eat it all, give them a little bit more, and remove the left overs after the two hours.
they will eat algae pellets (easily found in most pet stores. and dead fish and clams (freshwater)all i found was tropical fish food and small fish.
They are scavengers and will eat mostly anything meaty.
Dead fish, seaweed... pretty much and meat that is dead.
I do.
So do turtles, fish, some snakes, raccoons, birds, bears and just about any other carnivore/omnivore that has the opportunity.
Crayfish do not eat any specific species of fish. They simply grab whatever they can and rip a bit off and eat it.
Worms slugs
Yes if the adults are hungry.
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I believe they do
Yes.. Ate least they like them as bait..
Crawdads are Crustaceans.
Yes, they eat small fish, crawdads, crayfish, clams, mussels.
crustaceans, crawdads, crabs
One predator is the raccoon. Some people eat crawdads too.
Hickory Crawdads was created in 1993.
The main foot catfish eat is crawdads. The crawdads are probably the best bait. The meat from the tail of the crawdads is the best. Just remove the shell from the tail of the crawdads. You can purchase crawdads at any tackle shop or catch them yourself with a crawdad trap. Also, any kind of cheese is a good bait for the catfish. You only need to cast 25 feet in front of you to catch the catfish.
Crawdads and shrimp are two different species. Shrimp live in salt water, crawdads, aka crayfish, normally live in fresh water. Crawdads are like miniature lobsters with claws.
i catch them for bait in the summers, and last summer i kept a few i didnt use and put them in my fish tank and theyve been alive ever since.