Hello everyone
During a tank clean I noticed my electric blue crayfish had a load of black eggs under her tail. After noticing this I quickly did some research and it seemed isolating her was the correct procedure. I put her in her own tank with sponge filter and plenty of substrate and hiding places.
Her tank mates, when she was in the main tank, were one white and one red crayfish, I’m guessing she mated with the white crayfish because the red one just hides and isn’t very sociable.
However a week later I noticed some of her eggs were orange and fuzzy, clearly unfertilised and some of her eggs were light tan color.
Can anyone confirm if the tan color eggs are fertile or not please?
She hasn’t aborted them and is carefully aerating under her tail 24/7.
I’m seeing very conflicting information online:
-Light color eggs are infertile.
-Fertile white crayfish eggs have an almost white color.
-A white female that has mated with a blue male can have a light color fertile eggs
All I can be certain of is the orange eggs are unfertilised
Any information or advice highly appreciated
Picture1 shows the day I noticed her with black eggs
Picture 2 shows the eggs a week later (sorry for the unclear photo, it’s a screenshot from a video)
TIA
During a tank clean I noticed my electric blue crayfish had a load of black eggs under her tail. After noticing this I quickly did some research and it seemed isolating her was the correct procedure. I put her in her own tank with sponge filter and plenty of substrate and hiding places.
Her tank mates, when she was in the main tank, were one white and one red crayfish, I’m guessing she mated with the white crayfish because the red one just hides and isn’t very sociable.
However a week later I noticed some of her eggs were orange and fuzzy, clearly unfertilised and some of her eggs were light tan color.
Can anyone confirm if the tan color eggs are fertile or not please?
She hasn’t aborted them and is carefully aerating under her tail 24/7.
I’m seeing very conflicting information online:
-Light color eggs are infertile.
-Fertile white crayfish eggs have an almost white color.
-A white female that has mated with a blue male can have a light color fertile eggs
All I can be certain of is the orange eggs are unfertilised
Any information or advice highly appreciated
Picture1 shows the day I noticed her with black eggs
Picture 2 shows the eggs a week later (sorry for the unclear photo, it’s a screenshot from a video)
TIA