crayfish breeding, young uns!

[SirDrak909]

nice video! i have a red claw of my own, and im thinking about getting it a partner. How do i tell their sex? and will the parents eat their babies?

[13Jamie14]

@SirDrak909 cheers......males have a red claw and yes they will eat their babies

[MJWF11FAN]

@13Jamie14 thank you very much also awesome video

[13Jamie14]

@MJWF11FAN.....no probs man, cheers

[MJWF11FAN]

Can you tell the difference between a male or female when there about an inch big because I know that males have red and females don't but I don't want to buy another one and ending off being male please answer......

[13Jamie14]

@MJWF11FAN........... its really quite hard to tell when there that small, the only thing that i found with mine was that the darker ones were more than likely the males but thats not gonna be accurate, it was the wee red bit on the claw that i always used to tell, even if its not red yet you can sort of see a wee patch where it will turn red.

[thejaymanification]

did the young get eaten by the older crayfish???

[13Jamie14]

@thejaymanification...... after all the young left the mother and were all free swimming/walking I took the mother out and put her in a separate tank, this is because not long after this stage the maternal instinct disappears and her baby's become snacks, also if you leave all the young in the same tank they are cannibalistic and start picking each other off, so the biggest, strongest survive.

[bisonhawk1]

I just relized your a scottsman that's fucking awesome

[13Jamie14]

@bisonhawk1.... you knows it brother, the southern states is where its at aswell tho. home of the big texan 72oz steak, its on my to do list lol

[bisonhawk1]

Are you a successful breeder

[13Jamie14]

@bisonhawk1......hey man,.aye a would say i was. although i only reared the one batch everything went to plan during the whole process and grew alot of the young up to full adult size which were ready to breed again to keep the cycle going, Pretty cool tho, just finding out i could have a constant supply of free tasty food if i wanted..

[runesick]

@13Jamie14 I'm guessing crayfish reared at home are edible?

[13Jamie14]

@runesick aye man, your basically controlling their water conditions and diet so you know exactly whats gone in to them, no crazy chemicals or shit like that eh.happy days

[13Jamie14]

@GulfCoastJaguarundi ....... Cheers Bud

[JAMESTELFORD93]

My larger one ate my smaller one :(

[13Jamie14]

@JAMESTELFORD93 aye they do that man, try and get some the same size

[jakechan99]

can i askthe temp? food? n how 2 tell de sex?

[13Jamie14]

@jakechan99 hi there, the temp was roughly 25 degrees or 77 farenheight, i fed them a variety of differant foods, but to start with i just used fish flake food and algae wafers, but after a week or two i was chopping up bits of prawns and fish. they were too small to tell the sex here but once they get a little bigger the males have red on the claws and are slightly darker than the females.

[jakechan99]

@13Jamie14 THX! X)

[drychalice]

Video is very nice, music sucks.

[13Jamie14]

lol totally agree, the song i originally had was van halen "jump" but coz of copyright had te change it,and ended up wi this.

[titans24Colster]

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