mable crayfish eggs help....

[Mavrick813]

Also you can have blue marble's, just feed them a high protein diet like cichild pellets..

Two things,

First, I bought an Adult Marble a few weeks back and when I got her she must have berried in transit because their were eggs all over in the bowl she was in and about 15-20 under her tail. She was a dark brown color and has hid for the last few weeks pretty much non stop. So I figured she would come out with babies when she was ready.

Well, she emerged tonight and I got a good look at her, No babies, No eggs. But she had turned Blue. Not as bright and vibrant as the Blue Prawns or Lobsters you may see at your LFS but Blue just the same. Diet consists of, Algae Wafers, Sinking Shrimp Pellets, and Fresh Kale from the Grocery.

Guess it's back to the waiting game for babies though.

Mike

 

[Loves severums]

Two things,

First, I bought an Adult Marble a few weeks back and when I got her she must have berried in transit because their were eggs all over in the bowl she was in and about 15-20 under her tail. She was a dark brown color and has hid for the last few weeks pretty much non stop. So I figured she would come out with babies when she was ready.

Well, she emerged tonight and I got a good look at her, No babies, No eggs. But she had turned Blue. Not as bright and vibrant as the Blue Prawns or Lobsters you may see at your LFS but Blue just the same. Diet consists of, Algae Wafers, Sinking Shrimp Pellets, and Fresh Kale from the Grocery.

Guess it's back to the waiting game for babies though.

Mike

yeah mine has now 4 eggs left...

 

[biggin]

I think the blue color comes and goes... the guy who claims to have started those ads lives around here... have met him once. Still do not trust him.

Seems like mine go for 3-4 weeks and the eggs will hatch, while they are hatching a lot of the babies hang on the mothers tail, that is how you know it is starting... you will start to see a lot of movement on the tail..

Also, not all of them "clone" a lot do but not all of them. They eat plants and can eat your fish... They certainly eat each other.

To induce my larger ones to berry up, I feed bits of tilapia.

 

[mudskippermaster]

would marble crayfish be the best kind to get

 

[Fat Homer]

^ Depends on what you plan to do with the babies... considering the potential amount you could end up with, you almost need a way to use them up if you know what i mean...

in my case, i keep one main female, and the rest i use as feeders... although not saying thats the only reason to keep this species of crays...

 

[Danger_Chicken]

Two things,

First, I bought an Adult Marble a few weeks back and when I got her she must have berried in transit because their were eggs all over in the bowl she was in and about 15-20 under her tail. She was a dark brown color and has hid for the last few weeks pretty much non stop. So I figured she would come out with babies when she was ready.

Well, she emerged tonight and I got a good look at her, No babies, No eggs. But she had turned Blue. Not as bright and vibrant as the Blue Prawns or Lobsters you may see at your LFS but Blue just the same. Diet consists of, Algae Wafers, Sinking Shrimp Pellets, and Fresh Kale from the Grocery.

Guess it's back to the waiting game for babies though.

Mike

Once they get stressed and drop most they usually drop the rest. I lose the eggs about 75% of the time when I move a mother. They'll berry again. I changed my pellets a few months ago and mine all went brown, then green. I changed them again a few weeks ago and now their all blue again

When I had them all jammed into a 30g I would find them running around with no claws all the time. One day I saw a big one pull a little one out of her cave and start to drag her away. It only seems to be a problem when they are over crowed, I had also cut back on the food that month.

Here's some old pic's, this is as blue as mine have gotten.

A phone pic from last month, she was really green but it's hard to tell. I was feeding them some small algea affers but I can't remember what kind. I raise cherry shrimp with mine and they get alone and breed like crazy together. When I scoop a cray to feed a few shrimp always tag along to make it a 2 course meal.