Blue Marbled Crayfish

Information provided by one of the original pet traders as to where the marbled crayfish originated was deemed totally confusing and unreliable.

Blue marbled crayfish.

A new model organism for research on development epigenetics and evolutionary biology. Marble crayfish are non aggressive and cannot be housed with shrimp. You will receive one juvenile marbled crayfish. 1 11 11021 mp4 video by knecritters photobucket.

Marble crayfish do not need a mate in order to breed. 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. Native white river crayfish and calico crayfish are somewhat similar in appearance to marbled crayfish.

They can even be grown in buckets. No natural populations of marbled crayfish are known. Video of her tearing up my sword plant blue marbled crayfish. 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.

Journal of zoology 276 1 1 13. They are for lack of a better term self cloning. Suitability of the clonal marbled crayfish for biogerontological research. Marbled crayfish are closely related to the slough crayfish procambarus fallax which is widely distributed across florida.