Marble Crayfish Help PLEASE?!?!?!

[black_sun]

22-42 days is the berried length time.

This is the BEST website for info..

http://www.marbledcrayfish.com/marbledcrayfish/Welcome.html

Meh, don't promote that website.

Not all of his information is correct or accurate, he's been busted any number of times selling fakes (even though his page warns about them) and he's promotes situations that can lead to invasive issues or tank issues.

He's got some good information, but if you don't know how to weed out the good from the bad... If you want good information, check out the leading researcher on Marmorkrebs, his name is Zen Faulkes. He's got a few webpages, a FB, and readily responds to inquiries on the species. Nice guy, real helpful.

 

[black_sun]

Oh yuck!

I'm sure that this stems from when I was a kid, and had to go "fishing" for these:

Ewwww... scary looking!

 

[mshill90]

Those look cool, what are they?

helgramites...

I used to have dreams that they were crawling out of the fridge..

And they get wings!!!

 

[Mavrick813]

I like em already.

 

[hernandez.j91]

So the mother cloned already? I told ya she would. Just take a little bit of time.

 

[Mavrick813]

Momma cloned, and the one Baby that made it is Berried.
Thanks again Hernandez! A+ Seller right their guys!

Mike

 

[Mavrick813]

The Momma Molted again. Both of her claws are practically the same size now. But her tail is still got a little damage. I don't know if it's happening during the molting process or what, but she looks good. Went from Blue to Brown. But, I'm sure that in a couple days the Blue will come back due to the Massivore she eats.

Mike

 

[mshill90]

Their colors vary by what you feed.

I feed spirulina tabs, and they turn blue.

 

[Mavrick813]

Did a gravel vac and a thorough search of the Marble tank and only found one Baby. don't know where the rest went, but am mulling over changes that I can make so that the next batch don't disappear.

Right now the tank is a 20L, 2 Sponge filters, and a Whisper 20. Pea gravel for substrate, and five 1" DIY PVC Pyramid Houses. Their are three Crays in the tank, the largest Marble is just under 4". the second largest is between 1-2" and the baby that's left is about 1/4".

Food consists of, Cucumber, Potato, Massivore Delight, Sinking Shrimp Pellets, and Tropical Flake Fish Food. Their was also a Glow Fish in the tank but he has been removed. (Maybe he ate the babies?)

Any suggestions?

Mike

 

[hernandez.j91]

The babies are really small when they are hatch so its best to have them in an only species tank. Most likely your fish ate the babies.