Need help with I.D. please new lobster

[black_sun]

Looks like a P. acutus, could be wrong though. But it looks pretty close, I can tell you it's definitely not a Marmorkreb/Marbled crayfish now though. The patterning is completely wrong and the shape/size of the claws are WAY off.

I will tell you for sure, it's upset in the last picture lol. Don't know what about but the antennal scale doesn't usually display on crayfish unless they're scared/bothered/upset/etc. Very nice looking cray though ^_^

 

[AFelony]

Its at about 2inches right now

 

[AFelony]

I will get more pics over the next week or so. Where can you buy rainbow lobsters?

 

[black_sun]

The Hoa/Rainbow/Blue Moons (since there's still a lot of debate on if they are all variants of the same species, so don't know which one you're looking for specifically) can be found on sites like crazycrays.com

They also show up on eBay.com, aquabid.com, etc fairly frequently and you could post in the buy/sell section of bluecrayfish.com and crayfishmates.com, there's usually a few there sporadically.

Also, depending on the variant, a LFS may be able to order them in for you. They're fairly common imports to LFS (that I've seen at least, only the Red Claws and Tigers/Zebras show up more often than these guys).

 

[that one guy]

that lil bugger? there plant crayfish.(not acctually the name but that what most ppl callem down here.) they come in the shipments of plants that your LFS buys...they get returned... ALOT. they're killers.

they might be marbled crayfish/i duno i never looked into it. dont keep 'em with any fish that'r smaller than 'em or they become feeders for tha cray .

 

[AFelony]

Here is some more pic it is crayfish or lobster still confused. Thanks for everyones feedback.

 

[Noto]

It's definitely a crayfish, and definitely a North American species. There's no such thing as a "freshwater lobster", that's just a petstore name used to make crayfish sound fancier.

There are a ton of North American crays, and ID'ing them is not easy. If you want a species ID your best bet is to take your crayfish to a local expert. Try your state fish and wildlife agency or a university aquatic biologist.