Breeding crawdads

Anthony Nolet · Apr 21, 2015

Has anyone ever bred native crawdads in a tank? I've had one in a tank with a small pumpkinseed for almost a year now and recently I got another one and put it in there for food (although I was hoping it would survive) and I just saw the two of them interacting. I have no clue of their genders or if they were just squaring up. It would be cool to breed crawdads in a tank for food and crawdads are also cool to watch eat a night crawler

divemaster99 · Apr 21, 2015

I've heard of accounts of captive breeding before, not sure of the details though. Sadly it's now illegal to own them in PA so I'll never know.

Wailua Boy · Apr 21, 2015

Doesn't matter the gender, as they are capable of changing sex after each moult. Just watch for aggression but they should breed. Separate your berried female to a separate tank before she drops.....

Anthony Nolet · Apr 21, 2015

That's crazy they can just switch. What do you mean drop? I thought they kept their eggs under their tail.

Wailua Boy · Apr 21, 2015

I would move her to a separate tank before she drops craylets.

TankDempsey · Apr 21, 2015

Just from observing them in nature, they are pretty territorial animals. I hope it wasn't just sparring, but it might have been. Good luck breeding them! I'd love to see it so keep us posted!

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Moontanman · Apr 21, 2015

I've breed quite a few dwarf crayfish in my time, hundreds of them at least. It's not difficult but the sunfish will eventually eat the crayfish, in a closed container the crayfish is vulnerable, sunfish love to pick apart crayfish.

If you have a male and a female they will breed naturally, dwarf crayfish breed every 28 days, now sure which species you have...

Anthony Nolet · Apr 21, 2015

I'm pretty sure they're rusty crawdads. If they started breeding I'd put them in they're own tank. But for now they are just hanging out in the tank and the little pumpkinseed doesn't bug them. They have a few hiding caves.

Mihajlo525 · Apr 27, 2015

Watch my really old info vid on breeding crayfish, such as behaviour, breeding, and sexing crawdads.
[video=youtube;x7JPBG6nx3c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7JPBG6nx3c[/video]


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