adventure in medium size cray

[zapisto]

Hello,
I already breeding dwarf cray , like CPO, C. puer , C. montezume, C. shufeltdtii etc...
i want to move forward a bit and go in medium size cray.

what is the recommendation in term of facility to maintain , facility to breed , and of course facility to find.
and on top of that i would like (if it can be an option) something not too much agressive.


i know some of have great experience in this category.
so talk

PS: i am breeding/maintain many shrimps and dwarf cray so i am not new in invert

thanks in advance

[badflash]

Marble crays are nice. They get to about 3" and are very mild mannered. They get along with each other as they are all clones! They breed very easily too.

[Neonshrimp]

I would think you will need larger tanks with your new interest

badfalsh, when you say clones do you mean they are all phenotypically as well as genotypically identical? If so, that is very interesting

[Newjohn]

Neonshrimp
The Marble Crayfish, in not so scientific terminology.
Only requires 1 crayfish to reproduce, there is no mating involved.

John

[badflash]

Every Marble is exactly the same, except for size. Very easy crays, and pretty too!

[Neonshrimp]

badflash, nice picture and great looking cray. Do you keep the fish in there as a food source or do they actually share the tank and get along?

[badflash]

I keep endlers with most of my adult crays. The fish clean up after the crays, as do the red rams and apple snails in with them. They mostly co-exist. The crays get the dead ones and ones too stupid to stay away.

I have to pull berried females out or they eat the babies and pick at the eggs.

[zapisto]

I would think you will need larger tanks with your new interest

Yes i know
i am planing add 20 x 40g to my existing 50 tanks , so for space i will be ok.

ok i will try to found those marble.
any other (who involv mating) in moind ?

thanks everybody for the answer.

[Neonshrimp]

badflash, thanks for explaining your set up for me.

zapisto, best wishes for your new project.

I hope to try the same thing you two are when I finally get a invert/fish room started in the future

[badflash]

I'm having trouble with the display of pictures. The info at the right seems to be truncation the pictures to a fixed width.
Here is a direct link to an 800 pixel width shot:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/b ... arble1.jpg
Here is the pic:


Anyone else see this?

The other thing is that the link opens in the current window rather than opening a new one. Is my computer messed up?

[Neonshrimp]

I see that the picture you posted is lager and overlaps the borders of the posting window (it is larger than the fitted pic of your previous post). Is this what you mean?

I hate to go further off topic but I am having trouble with one of the topics in the "Othere Invertibrates" forum. The topic "Gammarus ". Keeps on showing up as unread for me, even though I have viewed both pages multiple times I get the red unread page indicator. I guess these might be a few of the bugs that need to be worked out of the system. Other than that the new look and better search features are both aces.