Egg Slime

[black_sun]

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!

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

cool pic

 

[likestofish]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

Oh, so that's what those glair glands do?

 

[black_sun]

Oh, so that's what those glair glands do?

Yup, they make nasty, sticky stuff to stick the eggs onto the pleopods.

 

[Yabbadoo]

Good job. Lovely....
I get this kinda stuff up my nose.

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

When i transfered my pregnant cray to the "nursery" tank she didn't have any glair. Does this only appear when they have eggs? mine was already little hatchlings. (little litte, like _ little)

 

[black_sun]

Good job. Lovely....
I get this kinda stuff up my nose.

Stop sniffing/snorting crays, Yabba. And you won't get glair up your nose

 

[swede]

bottle that up and sell it to avon!

 

[black_sun]

When i transfered my pregnant cray to the "nursery" tank she didn't have any glair. Does this only appear when they have eggs? mine was already little hatchlings. (little litte, like _ little)

Glair is only liquid/mucus-like when the female is first extracting her eggs. It'll harden shortly afterwards, which is when we normally she the cray with her "berry". So, it's only like the picture right as she's extracting the eggs and attaching them to her pleopods, after that you don't see it anymore.