New local crawfish

[wckdkl0wn]

Went out trapping today for crawfish. First time trapping this area. Put out 5 pots. All turned up empty except 1. And that one trap only had one crawfish. Talk about a beautiful crawfish. I ended up adding him/her to the 20 gallon aquarium. Turned out being a white tubercled crayfish - Procambarus (Pennides) spiculifer (LeConte).





Here are pictures of it in the tank. Disreguard the algea problem. In the process of taking care of it. This crawfish is roughly 4" right now.

 

[Vanimal]

Wow that's awesome!


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[wckdkl0wn]

If I can find some more and can get them to breed I might introduce them into my aquaponics setup.

 

[livebearerfreak]

awsome!!

 

[Fat Homer]

Just becareful he doesn't pick off all your fish over time... since crays are known to catch fish if they are slow enough...

 

[wckdkl0wn]

Only fish in the tank are left over from a breeding project years ago. Rosy barbs. They are pretty quick swimmers and have had crawfish in the tank before with no problems.

 

[Fat Homer]

Thats cool, just thought i'd give you a heads up just incase


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[virgil2090]

isn't that a pleco in the pic? i would think he could catch that easy

 

[lix.ma14]

Aren't you afraid your fish are going to get eaten or attacked?

 

[wckdkl0wn]

So far no aggression towards the other fish. He's just content on the bottom cleaning between the rocks. He did escape from the tank last night. I forgot they were escape artists.