My heater in my holding 45 gal holding container brock and cook 2 out of 6 marbles but does two had eggs, what is the chance that does eggs are viable and will they hach if i rigg some caind of egg tumbleler, looks like more than 300 eggs. any help greatly aprishiated
Marble crayfish emergency
- Thread starter mauricio yearwood
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Yes they are the ones carrying the eggs, i had drop the temp to 68 degrees then 3 days later raise it to 72 degrees and i guess the heater got stuck and over heated. 2 adults and 3 juvi sovive the ordeal.
This is for shrimp, but I guess it should work for crayfish with a few modifications:
http://www.planetinverts.com/Artifically%20Hatching%20Eggs.html
If I were to do this, I would use a separate 5G (minimum, you could go up to a 10G if you'd like, it may be wiser to do so) with a hang on back filter (SPONGE ON INTAKE). I would also put the eggs in a separate container with a lid. Poke holes in the lid. Put the container with the eggs (and lid on with the holes) directly under the waterfall that the filter makes, so that the water in the container is moving. Then you just have to wait.
and of course you have to separate the eggs.
What Heathd said is true, if the heat killed the crayfish, then the eggs are also almost certainly also useless as they are more sensitive than their mother. It would be impossible to separate dead eggs from living ones (if there are any left) unless there's a colour difference. Dead eggs would begin to rot and cause an ammonia spike.
http://www.planetinverts.com/Artifically%20Hatching%20Eggs.html
If I were to do this, I would use a separate 5G (minimum, you could go up to a 10G if you'd like, it may be wiser to do so) with a hang on back filter (SPONGE ON INTAKE). I would also put the eggs in a separate container with a lid. Poke holes in the lid. Put the container with the eggs (and lid on with the holes) directly under the waterfall that the filter makes, so that the water in the container is moving. Then you just have to wait.
and of course you have to separate the eggs.
What Heathd said is true, if the heat killed the crayfish, then the eggs are also almost certainly also useless as they are more sensitive than their mother. It would be impossible to separate dead eggs from living ones (if there are any left) unless there's a colour difference. Dead eggs would begin to rot and cause an ammonia spike.