Crayfish Journal (Cambarellus Patzcuarensis sp. Orange)

I am not keeping blue tigers at the moment. My friend is still working on breeding them for us.
Try contacting Arakkis (spellcheck). I know he recently got some very dark blue tigers. He might have some available for sale.
 
Awesome! I just bought some Scarlet Badis from him today. :) I'll ask him. Thanks for the info.
 
Got my crays & they're awesome! They're the only critters in a 20 long. Very hard to find them right now cause they're so tiny...lol. They're coloring up too. :D Very pretty.
 
great journal . I have read this whole thing . I am getting some cajans' threw a auction win, and read this info to try' to get prepared for them . I read the article on the blue cajan over at pet shrimp as well . I see that these babies need ALOT of space. To survive . One guy had them in a 120 gallon and had the best sucess . Every water change he would take out newly founf babies, and put them in thier own sep. container. I am thinking of getting a rubermaid container, not large, but short and with a big footprint , more room to move around on the bottom and I will use little 2" pvc pipes as thier hidey holes. How do you think this would work ? I would def use seeded everything , filter/substrate/etc.. so there would be no cycle . and I would def do water changes, and I see' all my babies get bigger & healthier with the new water 50% every week . The tank benefits with no algea, clean water, so no debree everywhere etc .... I will use some litter leaf for the bottom of the cray tank , so they feel even safer' . I also have marmokrebs, I have 2, they are soon to be berried .AND OMG ~ they produce a ton of babies !!! LOL ~I will be getting rid of those as fast I can .. :)

I want to THANK YOU for putting up your journal and helping others with these crays . There is still not a whole lot of info I can find on them and its refreashing to read someones journey and what they fail on and what works great , its ideally the only place to get good' info is from someone with true experence rasing these guys/gals . THANK YOU !!!~~
 
hi, Yodokari,

I was in SJ too(cupertino), ur CPO is really nice, I am breeder there's some experiences might help with ur babies.
1.move out to new tank is "mother" not "babies"
2.berry time the temp should be lower, or high temp they will hatch up earlier not good for babies, normally is 14 days, but mother keep longer might be 26days, longer is better
3. babies need some algae environment for growth

above is my experiences, for ur reference!
 
ccm143 said:
hi, Yodokari,

I was in SJ too(cupertino), ur CPO is really nice, I am breeder there's some experiences might help with ur babies.
1.move out to new tank is "mother" not "babies"
2.berry time the temp should be lower, or high temp they will hatch up earlier not good for babies, normally is 14 days, but mother keep longer might be 26days, longer is better
3. babies need some algae environment for growth

above is my experiences, for ur reference!
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Thanks for sharing.

I move mothers into a breeder net in the same tank. It allows them to be in the same water parameters and at the same time, it lets me separate babies. I believe this is going to be the easiest and safest way to transfer mothers and babies. Stable water parameters and all. I'd rather not risk putting her in a new tank, making her want to molt or not adapt to the new water, leading to a dead pregnant female. I know some people move their females out once pregnant but the risk is still there and I don't really want to take it.

Second, I have timed and tracked the berried to hatching to walking process. It's somewhere in this thread. I don't think I have ever gotten walking babies within 14 days. That sounds ridiculously fast...

I don't know if algae is really necessary, but some kind of foliage does help. Micro-organisms to pick at and all. But even then, they're ready to eat crushed snails when hatched. So I don't think it's entirely needed to have plants in there. It just helps a lot, blocks them from seeing each other 24/7, free food and so on.

Overall, I've got the whole breeding thing down. Thanks for the input!
 
I managed to find about a dozen deffinate CPO's for sale in a Halifax chain-fish store. Scary how they can get hold of something crazy like that. 20$ a piece, so sadly as I was on a deadline and needed gas money, I only bought 4. Hopefully with the help of your awesome thread I'll be able to start breeding them as well :)
 
My LFS is able to get them for me for $15 a piece, but I still bought from Yadokari. I have no doubt that Yadokari's stock would be 100% better than the LFS could ever get.
 
Do you still need rams, I got plenty
 
Awesome journal, I guess by the looks of it I'll have some to get rid of in 2 months (female has been berried for 12 days or so :D).. these are by far my favorite crays, thanks for taking the time to learn us.
 
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