I was wondering if different Procambarus species can live together, i am not worried about fighting i just dont want them to get sick. Also could they make a hybrid maybe Procambarus Alleni with a Procambarus Clarkii???????????..............
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Mixing any species will give you the possibility of contamination from diseases and parasites. However, provided you aren't just scooping out random species out of stream, that's limited some what in LFS trade. You'd find the bigger issue that the more aggressive procambarus species will kill off the other tankmates.
And yes, it's been done but that hybrid is particularly difficult. P. alleni usually kills P. clarkii rather than mating with it. I've had success with P. alleni and P. cubensis because both are similar in temperament and size, though.
And yes, it's been done but that hybrid is particularly difficult. P. alleni usually kills P. clarkii rather than mating with it. I've had success with P. alleni and P. cubensis because both are similar in temperament and size, though.
thanks i mite just try this. glad to see someone who has tried this and is also intrested in this too, and out of about 40 crayfish only 2 of them came out of the wild and they are seperat from the rest idont plan on breeding them. iam very careful about contamination every species has its own tank.i was wonder about Procambarus species that have been breed in captivaty not ones from the wild, and i dont have any crays from lfs.
crayfishkeeper;4942651; said:
Procambarus usually breed very easily in captivity. Of all the species I've encountered, at least. But I've only touched 8 or 9... there's 100+ different species in that genus. And some hybridize very easily, but that's true in a lot of the cray genuses.
What species do you have?
As far as Procambarus species go, I have Procambarus Alleni (blue) and Procambarus Clarkii (orange) and I am not completely positive about the third one, I've been told it was procambarus paeninsulanis but maybe if you look at this link, you could tell me for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXUKMRTQnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXUKMRTQnI
Just to let you know lobsters are aggressive to each other SOMETIMES. I had two cobalt blue lobsters and one lobster ripped the claws off the other one so I gave the one who's legs got ripped off to my mom, she's taking care of the poor guy now. He was always going after her. But maybe mixing colours would be different, not sure. Just wanted to let you know.
thanks for commenting but trust me i know every one of my tanks is for my crayfish i have been collecting, breed, and raising crayfish for about a year and a half and alot have been kill by each other. i have had about 7 different species and present have around 40 crayfish. most of my tanks are kept at a cooler tempater because the warmer the tank gets the more agessive they become(this is because they become more active when the water get warmer in the summer if they were in the wild, this adaptation still happens with crays that have been tank raised). i dont want to sound like a jerk but crayfish are not lobsters if you call than a lobster then you are wrong, lobsters a different species completely lobsters live in salt water and have one claw for cutting and one for crushing, calling a cayfish a lobster is calling a leopard a loin(both larger cats but not the samething). you can call then yabbies, mud-bugs, crawdads, crawfish, and crayfish (mite by missing one) iam not trying to be mean its just thats one of my biggest petpeves.
Help I put p.paeninsulanis with p.Alleni and they mated for about 40minutes but she won't go into berry. why, this happened about 2 to 3 weeks ago but no BERRY!!
She could just be storing the sperm plug until she finds a more appropriate time to berry. Also, so mixed species matings won't produce berries ever. It's all trial and error, really.