Breeding crawdads

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Anthony Nolet

Anthony Nolet

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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
 
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.
 
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.....
 
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...
 
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.
 
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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