Definatly a Marmor

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Well i guess i figured out wheter or not my cray was a marble or not as she has had he first (that i know of) batch of eggs. I can tell that they are fertile (i owned a few crays before including about 1000 marmors) and i am guessing it is probably one of her first (she is still really small and the berry is really small too). I don't expect too many of the babies to survive because of the danios, and serpae tetras (the danios are starting to look nice a pregnant also) but i am sure a few will manage to find somewhere to hide and survive.
 
fantastic news..my crays eggs hatched about a week ago, have counted about 40 lil 1's.
 
yeah last time i owned a marble she haid eggs about that same time after i got her as this one does, she was close to the same size but she had about 70 to 90 babies that liveto be free swimming, and most of them lived to be juvies, and about 2 weeks after they were away from her living in the tank on the own she had more. Now i don't know how cannibalistic marbles are but mine sure weren't i had like 120 at least in my 20 gallon, and another 50 or so in my ten (they were still less then an inch and i guess i fed then enough to not care for bothering one another unless it was a fight over a nice piece of shrimp pellet or fesh pea) but yeah this time i will let them get to about an inch and feed the ones i don't want to my fish
 
Marbles are relatively peaceful as far as crayfish go. Not as much so as the dwarf crayfish, but way less inclined to eat everything in sight then the larger ones.
 
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