Feeding live shrimp/crayfish to their fish?

[ceejayt2k]

dont try and breed crays its not worth it my friend tried and he never got it right the male would always kill the female before she developed eggs ah so it was only violent. wat we now do is go to local streams and catch boat loads of the suckers, usually about fifty and were gona feed our fish them now. u can find very small crays like less than a half inch, but if u do want realy tiny ones, go out to a stream now! lol me and my friends went fishing today and we found a few prego crays and my friend took them home to get the females to drop eggs and hatch into little crays but they are cannibalistic and theyre a mess so i think u should try shrimp maybe ghost shrimp i heard they breed quickly, dont eat their young and are a bit bigger than chery shrimp

If I was going to breed crayfish, I was planning to use marble crayfish (self cloning) I found online. They are suppose to be self cloning, not requiring a male..not sure how this works but that's what I read. Where can I find some live ghost shrimp, at a bait shop? Maybe that's can be an alternative. Great information, thanks everyone.

 

[Modest_Man]

dont try and breed crays its not worth it my friend tried and he never got it right the male would always kill the female before she developed eggs ah so it was only violent. wat we now do is go to local streams and catch boat loads of the suckers, usually about fifty and were gona feed our fish them now. u can find very small crays like less than a half inch, but if u do want realy tiny ones, go out to a stream now! lol me and my friends went fishing today and we found a few prego crays and my friend took them home to get the females to drop eggs and hatch into little crays but they are cannibalistic and theyre a mess so i think u should try shrimp maybe ghost shrimp i heard they breed quickly, dont eat their young and are a bit bigger than chery shrimp

Follow local laws. In the state of Washington, you can keep 10lbs of wild crayfish a day, but they must be at least 3" long.

 

[Oddball]

Down here, they're like goats. Crays come up on lawns at night to feed on grass, vegetables, worms, etc. (I live on a lake and across the street from a river) You can pick them off your lawn at daybreak before the dew starts to burn off. And, in LA, there's no limit on what you take from your own land.

 

[szymon328]

i forgot to mention breeding those non native crays lol ive been looking into it recently to and the marbled are the best but definitely don't try native cuz u can just catch those