lobsters as pet?

[king nick]

I was wondering if it is posseble to have lobsters as pets? When i say lobster I meen the type you eat. I think they would be awesome to have one as a pet, they are so interesting. do you know the specific species?Are the salt water or fresh water?
I you know any info or a care sheet plz let me know

thanks,
NICK

[the_frog_man]

they need to roam so you would need like a 400 gallon tank i was gunna keep a 6 lb. 1 i got 3 years ago
the are salt water and from the north atlantic so they need really cold water and they grow really really slow
they eat like micro organisims
but you can but electric blue lobsters at big als aqarium there like 30 bucks and get really small but they are fresh water
i hope this helps on ur search fro lobsters lol




thanx froggy

[-okapi-]

You can get them for cheap at the local seafood department of a store like kroger or meijer. They keep theirs in over-crowded 3ft by 3ft by 3ft acrylic tanks with cold saltwater and an air pump. Or you could go to a red lobster, they let you pick out your own while its still alive, maybe you can see if they will let you pick one out and keep it alive? As for a tank, the bigger the better, because if i am thinking right they migrate throughout the year. Ive heard you cant put them in salt water aquariums because they will move things around (possibly cracking the grass with a rock or coral), eat the expensive marine tank inhabitants, and are messy eaters. Those are the reasons pet stores never sell them. I believe they are scavengers, feeding on organic matter on the ocean floor, as well as, snagging a live fish when ever possible. Im sure there is alot of info about them on the web, try national geographics web site.

Lobsters will basically make an expensive (but really cool) pet. Salt water tanks are expensive to maintain I hear, and to refrigerate all that water your gonna have to find some kind of system where tank water is pumped through a cooling unit. They make those for people who want to keep cold water fish (I read about them in a book called something like "keeping native fish as pets"), but they are expensive.

And as a side note, those "Electric Blue lobsters", they are really just crawdads with a simple recessive gene that makes them blue, they are not worth the money charged, because anyone with the right setup can breed them and get hundreds of them. All it takes is a few of the opposite sex, a large tank, lots of hiding spaces, a strong filter to create a current, and frequent water changes. Most people dont breed them because they kill eachother if there are not enough hiding spots and/or a big enough tank.

[Topaz]

A friend of mine saved a baby lobster from china town several years ago... it grew from about an inch to 5 inches but died in a molt. SHe liked it though I think crayfish would be easier to keep cause they stay smaller.