Eww, egg slime! Heh, actually this was a rather interesting photo op as I've only seen it a few times before and never gotten to photograph it.
I was just starting to do a WC and tank cleaning on one of my Marmorkreb tanks as one of the females should have little craylings walking around in a few days, so it was a now or never thing (well, now or postpone it for longer than I'm comfortable with). And I startled another female out of her hide. She had apparently just extracted her eggs as they still had the excess sticky, mucus-like substance (glair) all over them and her tail. Usually, we (cray keepers) only get to see the crayfish after they are in berry and the glair has already hardened.
Ewww, slimy crayfish!
I was just starting to do a WC and tank cleaning on one of my Marmorkreb tanks as one of the females should have little craylings walking around in a few days, so it was a now or never thing (well, now or postpone it for longer than I'm comfortable with). And I startled another female out of her hide. She had apparently just extracted her eggs as they still had the excess sticky, mucus-like substance (glair) all over them and her tail. Usually, we (cray keepers) only get to see the crayfish after they are in berry and the glair has already hardened.
Ewww, slimy crayfish!