Crayfish Fry Pictures

[khenghock]

My female australian red claw recently 'gave birth' to around 50ish little cute crayfishes.
Female red claws carry fertilised eggs at their abdomen for around a month till they hatch. Even when hatched, the babies do not venture out that early.

Here are the pictures, from near hatching egg to the fry.

5 days to hatch

2 days to hatch

Hatched babies clinging on to mummy!

Two daredevils

 

[xingumike]

That is a really cool set of photos

 

[caboose_122]

very cool, what are you going to do with the little babies?

 

[demonmagus]

nice piccys

 

[guppy_man]

never thought i would say this but, they are cute little crayfish
never knew it was possible to breed crayfish in captivity

anymore pics

 

[willtang3000]

sweet pictures good luck with them

 

[Liam]

wow! great pics!
is that algae on the mothers shell?

 

[khenghock]

Thanks all

very cool, what are you going to do with the little babies?

Umm... considering that the mother was caught in a local stream/river, I might release them back to it? But then, australian red claws aren't native to our ecosystem... I might also sell them to a LFS, or even give them away to friends..

wow! great pics!
is that algae on the mothers shell?

Yeah, it's algae >.<. The tank is actually situated outdoors, and being in a tropical country with blaring sun, it's bound to happen. The tank had only the mother and babies throughout its incubation. I dared not put any algae eating fishes as for fear of it terrorising and stressing the mother.

But I noticed that, and if you look closely, you can see that the mother's algae disappeared after the babies started venturing out.. I guess it's food for them


The tank now is full of green water algae.. will have to do a water change and maybe put in some anacharis/elodea.

 

[Tessla]

Very cool series of photos! I never knew crayfish could be that adorable.

 

[paul_219]

Very nice babies.

Very nice babies.

 

[AndyOleszczuk]

Great Pictures. Gorgeous little babies.