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Old 19-11-2007, 08:07 PM
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I have just bought an adult female and a few of her babys....... not kept crays before, have been reading loads and they seem fairly uncomplicated though.
So any fellow crayfish keepers here ?

(no pictures yet as i dont collct them until saturday)
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Old 19-11-2007, 08:58 PM
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What kind of crayfish?
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Old 19-11-2007, 09:01 PM
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I had a crayfish years ago, little blue one,

It was rather shy and spent most of the time in his cave, and loved his prawns
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What kind of crayfish?

Red claw (the only legally available one)
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Old 19-11-2007, 09:05 PM
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Why are the others not legal?
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you can get crayfish from pets@home
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Old 19-11-2007, 10:44 PM
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you can get BLUE crayfish from pets@home
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you can get BLUE crayfish from pets @home
Yep, they're the same as the red claws

The others are not legal because if released into our watercourses it's possible they could survive and outcompete our native crayfish, the white-clawed crayfish.

Their population has already been devastated by the American Signal Crayfish which was originally imported for the restaurant trade, but ended up being released...

DEFRA allow the red clawed crayfish (aka. blue) because they are technically a tropical species, and so are unlikely to survive and breed in the UK climate
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I've got shrimp, does that count? It's kind of a mini version
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