Crayfish

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joeytoe

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How hard is it to breed your everyday avereage crayfish?

Im looking for a cheaper alternative to Ghost shrimp an Baby crayfish popped into my dome.
 
The main problem with that is finding a ballance. You'll either have too few babys to feed all of your fish or too many and have a problem getting rid of them. It might work as a suppliment for a large collection but would require several pair...each with thier own tank to produce a large enough number reliably.
 
If you went to your LFS, brought some feeder crays, then bred those, that would be a cheap investment. Pretty clean and easy too.
 
If you can try to get ahold of a marmor krebs, or Marble Crayfish. You only need one and you will end up with 100's or babies soon enough, i had one and it had babies every 3 weeks or so. They are an a sexual species of cray, the only one i know of.
 
Wolf3101;1158868; said:
The main problem with that is finding a ballance. You'll either have too few babys to feed all of your fish or too many and have a problem getting rid of them. It might work as a suppliment for a large collection but would require several pair...each with thier own tank to produce a large enough number reliably.

to few wouldnt really be a problem (I only feed live food maybe 2-3 times a month) to many could end up a problem. Ive seen 4 of my fish eat ghost shrimp (Jardini, Pike, Fire Eel, an TSN/Niger Hybrid) there all pretty big so Im not sure if too many would be an Issue.

Mystix212;1158901; said:
If you went to your LFS, brought some feeder crays, then bred those, that would be a cheap investment. Pretty clean and easy too.

Most LFS around here, (if your lucky) just have adult crays an ghost shimp for Inverts.

canucksfan1;1158902; said:
If you can try to get ahold of a marmor krebs, or Marble Crayfish. You only need one and you will end up with 100's or babies soon enough, i had one and it had babies every 3 weeks or so. They are an a sexual species of cray, the only one i know of.

the LFS I frequent alot just has regular Crays (not even sure what specie they are.
 
Remember that crays are cannibals.
 
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