Wolfgang8810

my blue crayfish is carrying eggs can they hatch? ive had her a week or 2 its so cool ill get a pic asap!

Wolfgang8810

heres a pic

Tom

I think that a female only carries the eggs.
Tom

Wolfgang8810

yea so will they jsut go to waste? being unfertile or is it possable that something happened with a male before i got her?

Wolfgang8810

im sorry to hear about yous too tom they really are fun critters

Tom

I don't really know that much about them, I only know stuff from experience.
I went and bought some more feeder guppies yesterday and some ghost shrimp that I am going to bring inside for the winter and keep using the 10 gallon I am using for a little ecosystem for those little guys. My only advice, is don't feed your crayfish/lobster crickets, I don't think they are good for them.
Tom

Wolfgang8810

yea mine only gets krill and sinking carnivore pellets and every once and a while a pea for some veggies

Tom

Yours is a tank raised one right? If it was a wild caught, then it needs some live protein from live food like feeder guppies. But what you could do, is buy some feeder guppies and let them sit in a small tank and watch and take out the sick/dead ones and then feed the live ones to the cray, making sure the guppy is either dead or stuggling to move, and push them to the cray and let it go and pick it up and watch it eat it.
Tom

Wolfgang8810

mine was farm raised i think but it says that eggs dont develop unless fertalized and it could tak months for them to develop

Tom

So what I would do is put her in her own little tank for a while and see if the eggs hatch and then put her back and raise the little ones and then sell/trade them to the lfs.
Tom