Is it bad to interbreed crayfish? I ask this because I have been breeding blue Alleni crayfish for about a year. How I started of was 1 male cray from a local fish store and 13 baby crays from a different breeder. When those 13 grew up they bread with each other. I have never seen any deformities? I have 3 males and 2 females. I have a batch of females coming in from another breeder to mix the blood line up. Because I don't want to use the female juvis to breed in the same line again. Is there anything else that can happen besides deformities?
Interbreeding?
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If you bred successive generations together long enough you would definitely see deformities, but as long as you keep breeding just the parents then you will keep the chances low of getting abnormal progeny. However, if you have two distinct bloodlines then you could breed the progeny of one with any generation of the other, and over the course of a few generations have many breeding partners with relatively low risk of defect.
You could also hope for a 'good' defect, such as albinism (although I don't even know if this is possible in crayfish) and get some very interesting morphs. But this would again be risking loss of offspring.
You could also hope for a 'good' defect, such as albinism (although I don't even know if this is possible in crayfish) and get some very interesting morphs. But this would again be risking loss of offspring.