I just got a Mother Crawdad carrying eggs!!!

gar man

cookies!!!
Dec 31, 2008
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I was fishing at big lake and a guy next to me catch a cup. when he sat it down on the dock ( it was full of mud) and a crayfish crawled out of it. i picked it up cuz the guy said i could have it and it has like 50 eggs on her tail. i now have her in my 5 1/2 gallon aquarium iwth a powerfilter and a heater turned to 76 degrees F. it had baby orange swordtails in it so i put it into the 20 gallon long since they were big enough and i found about 12 newborn orange swordtail fry in it from the mother in the breeding cage so i put them in the 20 inside of a breeder net. so now i have the female crayfish a cave made out of a plastic pop bottle and its settling in nicely :) i cant wait untill the eggs hatch :) when they do hatch ill w8 untill they get bout 1 inch(by then ill have my big pond up and running so ill put them all in there) and ill just keep the mother and mabye try to breed her again and ill try to post pics later..haha im so excited!!!
 
good luck!
 
Update: It crawled out of the cage!!! i found it after an hour of tearing apart my room to find her and now she is in the tank again and i saw how she got out so its not weighted down with a piece of pertified wood... wow that scared me
 
its about mabye 3 inches. and im hoping i can talk my mom into letting me get a 10 gallon to put her in but more then likely she wont let me so...yay i guess its good enough for now..and thank you for a;; the GL's :)
 
oh wow! i would love to have a crawdad all over my room!
seriously! im not being sarcastic! thats just so cute! i hope none of the eggs got damaged though
 
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