Electric Blue Crayfish - Procambarus alleni
- Thread starter Eugene
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From the size and shape of the claws I'd say you have a bad girl there! If you want to be sure check between its legs! Seriously, you look underneath where the tail and body come together. On the underside of the tail are little appendages called swimmerets. On a male the first pair are longer and modified to hold the female while breeding. I kept them for yrs in community tanks. They dig a bit, and if anybody gets too weak to swim they're food, but I can't ever recall losing a healthy fish to one.
never lost a fish to any of the regular crayfish i had, but i lost a crayfish to my jack dempseys, the ripped him in half and ate his insides. i wish i could keep one of those blue but dont want to lose it.