Blue Marbled Crayfish

Marble crayfish are non aggressive and cannot be housed with shrimp.

Blue marbled crayfish.

Marble crayfish do not need a mate in order to breed. A review and perspective with remarks on some further crustaceans. They are for lack of a better term self cloning. 1 11 11021 mp4 video by knecritters photobucket.

Information provided by one of the original pet traders as to where the marbled crayfish originated was deemed totally confusing and unreliable. They are brown when young but eventually turn blue when they mature can grow up to 6 inches does not need a mate to reproduce. They can even be grown in buckets. Suitability of the clonal marbled crayfish for biogerontological research.

To find information on identifying the marbled crayfish and distinguishing it from native species visit michigan gov invasives. A new model organism for research on development epigenetics and evolutionary biology. Their offspring will be excat clones of their parents. Video of her tearing up my sword plant blue marbled crayfish.

Marmorkrebs have a lot of individual differences due to variation in how they develop vogt g huber m thiemann m van den boogaart g schmitz oj schubart cd. World s only self reproducing crayfish species these crayfish are omnivorous and will act as a scavenger in the aquarium eating any food that comes to rest on the bottom. Marbled crayfish are closely related to the slough crayfish procambarus fallax which is widely distributed across florida. Native white river crayfish and calico crayfish are somewhat similar in appearance to marbled crayfish.