Marbled Crayfish Question

[snoskate88]

I am interested in buying a Marbled Crayfishto breed in a 10 gallon aquarium so that i may have a good food suppply for my oscars/jack dempsey. I will not release them into the wild, i know exactly how bad that is. I was wondering if anyone knew were I could buy one for a reasonable price. I mean they clone... they shouldnt cost 30 bucks. Or if anyone on here will sell me one it would be greatly appretciated.
thank you,
mike

 

[black_sun]

Try Aquabid.com, there's usually a few people selling adults in the $5-10 range. And there's a few people on Aquariacentral.com that are selling them right now (I made WTB crayfish ad last week and I had 3 different people try to sell me Marbled crayfish lol). Uh, oh... there's this website: http://www.plantedaquariumscentral.com/marble.html

 

[xtrememarinetnker]

i saw an ad on craigslist for those

 

[crm7290]

The adds on craigslist turn out to have 40 dollar shipping on a ten dollar cray, and the cray you get isnt mature. Matures sell for like 79 i beleive. I wont buy through markledcray sellers, im just hoping to stumble upon someone who has one either in the chicagoland area or in the twin cities where snoskate lives near.

 

[fishbait2]

I have some will be ready in few weeks.$2 each and only pay actual shipping cost.

 

[Skeeters]

I don't understand why they overpriced the mature brown crayfish....and they are not very rare these days.

 

[crm7290]

PM me or snoskate88 when they are ready

 

[Danger_Chicken]

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They're still had to come by in my area. I think one thing that keeps the price high is you only have to buy 1 to get a breeding colony started. Hence, not a lot of repeat sales. But that's just my theory.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

skeeters pm me when ready