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i just picked up a nice blue cray today

blue cray or blue lobster?

well blue lobster it was labelled , but is a blue crayfish

will probably let it grow a bit , then lilly can have it as a tasty snack .......................nice colourings they have , they easy to breed or not ??

Puffer King wrote:well blue lobster it was labelled , but is a blue crayfish

it is a true cray but the appendages label it as "lobster". I don't know much about the breeding habits as of yet. We're still in the research stages of the site. There are 2 way it can go... it can keep the offspring until they are ready to mature or they can release them into the open and hope they survive. Most FW species keep them with the female. SW tend to release them.

I have never kept one myself but "blue lobster" are not one of the self cloning species. They can store sperm (as noted in the previous post) for quite a while, giving the imitation of being "virgin born". This is actually a self preservation method, where they store the sperm and when conditions dictate they fertilize.

oh the crays don't have immaculate conception then .....oh well i guess thats jesus coming back as a crayfish outta the window ! lol

A whole lot of babies lately .

I can never find marbled here but I manage to get the red claw Cray to berry and now, I have a tank full of mini crays too!