anyone keep crayfish ?

[wohic]

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)

[Kenorsanc]

What kind of crayfish?

[njp]

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

[wohic]

Originally Posted by Kenorsanc

What kind of crayfish?

Red claw (the only legally available one)

[njp]

Why are the others not legal?

[Andy b 1]

you can get crayfish from pets@home

[Saff]

you can get BLUE crayfish from pets@home

[neep_neep]

Originally Posted by Saff

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

[Dan]

I've got shrimp, does that count? It's kind of a mini version

[wohic]

Originally Posted by reticulatus

I've got shrimp, does that count? It's kind of a mini version

lol should that be the start of an over 18's thread ?