{"id":30,"date":"2016-04-01T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notsealed.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2023-07-18T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T09:43:09","slug":"how-catch-yabbies-keep-them-pets-best-shrimp-crayfish-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notsealed.com\/how-catch-yabbies-keep-them-pets-best-shrimp-crayfish-food.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Catch Yabbies and Keep Them as Pets + What to Feed Shrimp Crayfish Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Murray River Yabbie in a fish tank. There is a tank cleaning fish in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want to\u00a0know how to Catch Yabbies and keep them? Living in Australia we have access to Yabbies in the Murray River which there is a huge supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How to Catch Yabbies in Australia<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The Australian Yabbie (Cherax Destructor) is very common in a lot of backwater streams and freshwater rivers\/dams, and especially in the Murray River. They like to live under the river banks where they burrow into the river walls or they live under logs and branches.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can easily catch yabbies with a crab\/yabbie net using various food items.\u00a0<\/span>Yabbies can be fussy sometimes about what they eat, so If I’m out for a feed of yabbies for the cooking pot I will take a variety of bait.<\/p>\n

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People think that yabbies are meat eaters but there are some conflicting ideas out there. I have tried Fish, pork, lamb, sausage, and vegetables It all works at one time or another.<\/span><\/p>\n

So if you have a few Yabbie nets try a variety of food in each and see what works in your area. Place the food in the net and place the net in the river or Dam for a few hours and then check. Place back into the water if nothing. But you most probably at least get some shrimp.<\/span><\/p>\n

I sometimes take out my Sea-doo jet ski to drop off the pots and use an old milk bottle as a float.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Yabbies Need a House:<\/h2>\n
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We made a place for the Yabbie to hide by breaking a small ceramic pot plant tub in half and washed it well.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Yabbie has been alive for a few years now, living on vegetables and they make a great pet. Just don’t put fish in the tanks unless they are fast swimmers.\u00a0<\/span>We also supplement its diet with crayfish food which it likes ok but not as much as vegetables.\"yabbie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Cleaning the tank is simple with a hose draining into a bucket, only take out about a 1\/3 of the water at a time so there isn’t a big change in water temp when refilling. Do this every few weeks to keep the water fresh. Also, scrub the tank glass with a non-abrasive sponge. Make sure there is no detergent on the sponge. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Setting up a Shrimp Aquarium:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

<\/a>For a complete beginner\u2019s guide to setting up and maintaining freshwater shrimp aquariums and tanks. You should check out this free kindle resource book<\/a> (at the time of writing) from Amazon. It will go into great detail on Lots of useful facts on how to build, and maintain the aquarium and it also contains facts on keeping, feeding and sourcing shrimp. Its free so go for it.<\/p>\n

Many people think that maintaining a shrimp aquarium is very hard and daunting, it is not so. Because you can easily set up and maintain a standard freshwater shrimp aquarium within a small budget.<\/p>\n

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Yabbies as Pets:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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I decided to do an experiment and put a yabby in the kid’s fish tank. Well, we knew the fish wouldn’t like it. There were only a few Neon Tetras and a tank sucker fish that cleans the tank and the crazy Yabbie ate them all over a few months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feeding :<\/span><\/h2>\n

We feed the Yabbie vegetables like peas and carrots which the Yabbie eats very fast. We tried different meats but the Yabbie wouldn’t each much of it. And would make the tank water smell bad.<\/p>\n

The Yabbie would shed its shell every 6 months and it went from a Brown color to a Dark Blue color which was cool. Leave the shell in the tank the Yabbie will eat it over the next few days. (Helps it to rebuild its new shell)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n