1 week? i have two females with eggs atatched to the tail and the eggs are all black. two are yellow.
how long does it take for crayfish to hatch
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get rid of the yellow ones theyre proly infected and feed them to something. also u should put the females in separate containers, preferably cricket holding things wats up darren!
took mine a couple weeks. two or three my memory is fuzzy. a crayfish isn't going to let you get rid of eggs since they're attached to their swimmerets and they're pretty protective. does the female have a little nest area dug out? the babies will look nothing like crayfish, more like "triops" (you can grow them like sea monkeys) for the first couple of molts. color morphs, like cats, will produce random color morphs. i had a standard red female, a blue female, and a white male. the babies were all three colors. the parents are all dead now, i have one white male and two reds left. the babies also bred but i added tiger and rosy barbs to the tank months ago so i'm down to the three.
oh yeah, you'll start to see little eyeballs in the eggs when they're getting close. a few of mine did the yellow thing but i didn't mess with them. they should get to about the size of maybe a third of a pencil eraser or a little bigger than the chain beads for military dog tags and you should start seeing the tiny little black eyeballs. first thing other than peacock bass i've actually successfully bred.
Mine took 30 days and I kept perfect count. The eggs were all yellow so I don't think that means they're bad. It sure looked like she hatched out hundreds and hundreds. The Oscars enjoyed crayfish for quite some time.