/diy/ - Do It Yourself

The goal here is to start raising normal crayfish and if successful branch into other colors in doors as a hobby. Self sustaining or possibly profit even would be a much welcomed bonus obviously.

Being a proud hillbilly from burgerland the next obvious step is red, white, and blue crawdads in tanks where the fake plants and sand are the other 2 colors.

After that i will likely set up a dwarf orange system and then try other colors including the awesome thunderbolt crawdads.

If somehow through magic, luck, or determination this all works out i will set up an llc and go commercial.

The final step will be to beg, plead, and wtf ever else to set up a giant Tasmanian crawdad habitat. Even if it costs money and i have to ship all of the extras i get back it would be pretty fucking awesome to have a few for pets and help fight the extinction of them

I have a bunch of ideas already and by random chance a bunch of old windows i was about to toss for some startup aquariums.

Anyone else i to aquariums or have aquarium bros that have advice?

Any fishbros and ideas welcomed.

>pic related
>old adult Thunderbolt Crawdad (Crayfish)

2/2

>>1414508
No experience with these guys other than eating them, but I did have quite a few tanks at one point and made a little money breeding and selling to fish stores.

If I had to give one bit of advice it would be to always have multiple small tanks going on top of your main larger tanks as quarantine tanks for assholes or sick guys. One sick or bully fish can fuck up everything pretty quickly.

Of course, like I said I know nothing about crawdads so this advice could be bullshit.

>>1414528
That's what i hear man. Got well water and diy a bunch of individual tanks if all goes well.

Thanks tho. If things work out i may finally be able to do it full time. Thank god for the internet. My county has 2900 people and the nearest pet store is small and 45 miles away.

I have had a 29 gal planted tank for a few years. It looked really nice when I set it up. Didn't thoroughly inspect and rinse the plants when I got them. Plants had bottle brush algae and Malaysian trumpet snail eggs in them. Shit took over. Been fighting a loosing battle ever since. When the last few fish die I plan on stripping it down and starting over.

>>1414572
Shit son. I would dump and cycle a gallon of bleach and do it now. Sucks man.

I dont mind problems. But if i lose a tank i want to know why

>>1414542
Test your well water for copper, it kills invertebrates.

Used to do freshwater and had a 75 gal reef. Know jack shit about crawdad farming, but once caught a gallon of the fuckers with the kid next door.

Good luck anon.

>>1414698
Thank u sir. Thats the plan. Probably test it next week. Thanks for the tip tho

>>1414741
My wife’s boyfriend had a sweet aquarium.

Also /an/ might be of more help than /diy/

>tfw moved and left a nice 75gal setup at the old house because I was too lazy to bring it across the country
And like 3 other tanks. Kept telling people to go grab the stuff if they wanted it before the house got sold and everybody was too lazy. There was also a 1975 Honda Goldwing in there but I couldn’t find the title so nobody wanted it.

>>1414508
In case you may not know, /an/ has a continual general for this type of stuff you may want to check out: >>>/an/2729902

Also, for farming and gardening there are these guys and their continual general: >>>/out/1299597 there's a pastebin link in that which has aquaculture and aquaponics links and info that are also suited for crayfish (yabbies) farming.

>>1414744
That sucks.

Should YouTube diy aquarium.

All you need is glass and silicone.

I am going all in. Getting a cuckshead and skidding it onto a cement pad. My bro runs a small business and essentially has build a cement truck on a trailer and i can get cement for wtf ever he pays for truckloads of it.

>>1414758
>there are other boards?

Will head over there. Thank you folks

>>1414572
theres a medication for fish that p much kills all inverts, might be the one for ick

>>1414880
I mean the tanks themselves aren’t that expensive. Plus you can find used on CL all day because people got lazy and bored or they’re moving. I had a nice Fluval canister filter, solid pine stand, little 6gal Eclipse in the cabinet for iso or feeders, and then another 15gal setup.

I can’t even find any pics of it. I didn’t have it set up for a couple years because I was selling aquariums and fish at work and didn’t want to mess with it at home too.

>protip:
If you have a hobby and think you will like doing it as a job, it will ruin your hobby. Like the kids on /o/ who like wrenching and become mechanics and then despise fixing their own cars on the weekends.

>>1415012
I like you beppy and thank you. I would like to think i could be "content" with my own business. Schedules. And income.

I truly hate wagecucking and over the years have done SOLID MATH. I make my company well over 20k an hour aster all expences and get paid like 18hr.

I know exactly how, where. And when to cut thier throat and like 9% of thier price and stay operational.

The more i learn the more i realize just how bad i get fucked


Fuckin done

>>1414508
you'd probably be well off with big plastic tubs over aquariums to keep costs down. They want ground area to forage around in. Just dump vegetable scraps in, keep temperatures and parameters stable, and you'll have babies eventually.

invertebrates are stupid easy to raise.

>>1415301
Tubs are a good idea. I was considering 55 gal. Drums of maybe galvanized water troughs if they need a little more room. The wife said she didn't want them in the house. Smfh. Agreed to 1 tank so i am going to build a 200gal. Haven't even thought of craigslist. That's a good idea.

>>1415138
>I like you beppy
Why would anybody lie on the internet?

And I’m moving like $15k/day worth of product but I’m not the ony one involved in the production, sale, advertising, delivery of said product so I’m not abour to claim that I solely make my company $2k/hr. We all want more but I guess my cut at ~$25 an hour is ok.

>>1415012
Fml i wish i wasn't busy and broke for the next few weeks. (Closing costs are a bitch.)

Would it be dumb to use a stand like this for a frame? Silicone all of the glass inside. I could cut and shorten it if need be

Was considering just getting some angle iron and building it myself. I have a spot in my house i think i could build about a 200gal into. It's kind of goofy shaped though.

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>>1414744
>My wife’s boyfriend

>>1415325
I make like $18 and work 50 hour weeks. You only work 40?

>>1415338
Kek. I saw that also.

Polycarbonate (lexan) pond domes. Is there much of a market for them? Would anyone be interested in buying or trading for some?

>>1414508
I'm gonna go to the local pond, scoop up some water, let it settle, and see what is living in it

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>>1415330
Is that an aquarium stand? If so, I’m assuming it would be pretty beefy. Regular aquariums are held together by those shitty plastic frames on the top and bottom so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as long as you get the right glass. Just make sure the bottom is supported well.

>>1415452
$18 for working 50 hours? Fuck that.

And nah, I normally work more than 40. I used to work about 42-45hrs a week and it wasn’t bad because I was home by 3pm most days. But my company has been a bit of a clusterfuck lately so there’s a lot more 50-55 hour weeks. But I guess in my field, ~50hrs is about the typical work week across all different companies. And I waste a few hours a week bullshitting with cute latinas.

>>1415452
nigger, i mow lawns and get $20hr
i sit on top of a 72"mower, and that shit grows back. its great
get a hustle going, get out there and make some contacts

>>1416495
>And I waste a few hours a week bullshitting with cute latinas.
fucking traitor. i hope youre the next one on the list to get his heart ripped out while still alive

>>1416558
Bruh, if I go for white girls, I’ll end up with like a 7/10 and if I grab an 8+, she will be a stuck up bitch with the personality of a wet dish rag. If I go for a Latina, I got these 9+ girls comin onto me. Lots of them are daddy’s girls and they can’t stand the typical 5’6” manlet Latin guy who weighs 135lbs with a bunch of product in their hair. Then they see a blue-eyed American guy who is 6’+ with wide shoulders who knows how to change a flat tire and they start to get wet.

Plus lots of the South American girl are lookin way better than your average Mexican. Colombians, Venezuelans, and some of the Cubans have a bit more Yuro blood in them. And most of them are Catholic so they haven’ been run through by dozens of other dudes before you get em. This one I got now was brand new, zero miles on the odometer before I got it in that sweet, sweet 21yo furburger.

I've had yabbies. They're fun to keep, especially at feeding times. They're quite territorial so make sure there's enough habitat and hiding area. Also, they're very messy and water requires more filtration/changing than it does for fish. Always a hit among guests haha

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>>1416690
Kek. I'm pretty excited about it. I wasn't aware you could just coat plywood. It's really going to help add to the size of the glass front.

>>1416338
>1 snail
>2 water bugs
>1 tadpole (if i wasnt lazy as fuck and it wasnt 100 degree outside id go put him back)
>~10 mosquito larvae
>10 billion little bouncy guys. not sure what they are

>>1418366
Kek. I just set my crawdad trap with hotdogs in it like 20 minutes ago. Will go check it and see wtfnis in there in a few hours.

I need to mod a minnow trap to catch small ones but my bro had rabbit cage shit so we cobled a one opening pillow trap together.

>>1418366
your snails a qt anon. v. soothing to observe.
what (s)he called?

>>1419307
Let us know if you catch anything.

>>1419377
No name yet. I am going to go back and hopefully get more snails this weekend. I'm trying to make a completely sealed self sustaining ecosystem. I ordered some shrimp eggs online too.