comocrayfish5
Fish Addict
Bub is my biggest Crayfish i had him for 2 years and he was 2 1/2 inches (6.3 cm) and he grew up to be a 6 in (15.24cm ) monster with 2 inch claws ! he was a beautiful blue. he was going to be brown if he made it. he was molting, lost an arm and died over night. i think what happened was his claw/ arm was not ready to molt but his body was. instead of loosing both claws (it happens sometimes) and surviving..... he died i have always said that i want an extra tank and i want one cray and i should have no got another, but i know i would not be happy with out the crays. so now i am left with the hardest choice: Do i get another cray or make it a goldfish or tropical tank???. i really want a marbled crayfish- they clone them selves, this is how they reproduce. or maybe i could get a red cray that i saw a a fish store that i was drooling over... . of course the red one would be more beautiful than the marbled, but the marbled has been on my " pet bucket list". i would have no clue what to put the tank if i got tropicals either....
so here are some pics:
the first time i looked in from coming home:
crays are supposed to molt in one piece... so this was the stage for something to go wrong.
a close up (i couldnt figure out what was at the base of his legs. it might have been something internal that got ripped out during the bad molt:
what i woke up to this morning (he is dead and i do not leave my lights on all night! turned them on to get a better look) :
he color change (the blue was his old color, brown was new... he was brown when i first got him then with every molt he got bluer and bluer) :
(all following pics are for internet- not mine! )
this is a marbled cray:
with eggs:
similar looking cray to the one i saw at the fish store:
was the same color as this one!
so do you think i should do a cray or tropical tank?
thanks for reading
so here are some pics:
the first time i looked in from coming home:
a close up (i couldnt figure out what was at the base of his legs. it might have been something internal that got ripped out during the bad molt:
what i woke up to this morning (he is dead and i do not leave my lights on all night! turned them on to get a better look) :
he color change (the blue was his old color, brown was new... he was brown when i first got him then with every molt he got bluer and bluer) :
(all following pics are for internet- not mine! )
this is a marbled cray:
with eggs:
similar looking cray to the one i saw at the fish store:
so do you think i should do a cray or tropical tank?
thanks for reading