Mud bug minus the mud!

I've had this guy since he was about the size of a grain of rice. They have very vivid colors when raised in clean water.


Anyone know which of the 654 crayfish species this one might be?

Looks like it is doing very well! As for the type of specie I have no idea!

That is pretty cool. There is a place near me that sells these "snow white" craws.

Those are cool looking too. Mine came from a ditch, East of Dallas. It just amazes me that there are 654 species of these things.

Raise a few myself

What do you feed it?

Crawdads will eat just about anything, including each other.

I feed it cichlid fish pellets. They will eat smaller ones of their own kind though!

Look like the ones I catch in my ditch!

Nice crawdad! Why the gloves? Just kidding!

I just caught one that has hundreds of babies under her tail. Is it possible to keep them alive? I know absolutely nothing about crawfish other than they taste good.

Yes. put them in dechlorinated water. Add a small air pump to help keep the water cleaner.

This made me hungry

Feed them bacon man. It's like steroids for craws. They'll get as big as lobsters.

probably what they call a chimney crayfish
was one of the first water critters i ever ketched
the bar ditches and even front yards down by the coast were loaded up with em when i was a kid
wait ....i am still a kid .....lets just say way back when

YUM!

Fresh Water Lobster- kinda

3 more posts and I'm an "angler"

Do you think they are called a chimney crayfish because they dig holes and build mounds like these?

That would be my guess.