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That is true about the color, but the caption does say:

The mother almost looks black, but is actually a midnight blue.

The blue on these vary alot. At bottom of his picture he wrote looks black but is actually midnight blue. Females darken especially when carrying.

zwergkrebszuechter wrote:Do you consider that crayfish blue? Nice dark color, sure, but blue? Maybe it is just me, but I think blue looks different.

Yes, she is blue, but very deep. Keep in mind that we are at a very early part of this project. It takes years to get a true breeding blue cray. It is amazing to me that we are getting as high a percentage of blues as we have. Erie's getting 90%. I'm getting 75%. Probably in a year we'll have some true blues. I love the ghost blue color some of them have.

FISH WORLD ERIE wrote: That's funny. The female must of been quite embarassed.

Actually the female just got up & walked off like nothing ever happened. The male on the other hand was a little angry and waved his claws at me. I'm sure glad he's an inch & a half.

Can you blame the little guy ?

As promised here are my crappy pics. Not that you can tell from picture but these are 80-90% blue. The blue varies and is more intense on some. Most of these are 3/4 inch in size. They definately look better in person.
Jason

Looking good Some of the larger ones are very blue. Will the color darken as they grow?

Wow, are you kidding me? That is a great set of picture for putting into perspective the ratio of blue to other colors. It is also great to see so many crays in one area Keep up the great work

Great work!

ToddnBecka wrote:Looking good Some of the larger ones are very blue. Will the color darken as they grow?

Yes at about 1 inch in size they will show their best blue. That is why some of the larger ones appear bluer. Some of these may stay ghost blue or ice blue also.

jason

Some of these may stay ghost blue or ice blue also.

By this you mean they are "clear/see through" blue right?

Yes they are more or less see through with a blue coloration. One of the group photos kind of shows this. It's better to see them in person to see this. If I had a better camera it would be easier to show everyone this. Maybe I will borrow my brothers and take some new pics.

They're lovely little dudes, in any case. I'm very impressed.

I've now got 3 females with eggs on their little bellies! This is too cool. My 40 gallon breeder tank seems to be to their liking.

Good job, way to go badflash!