We have a crawdad that my daughter caught in a local pond, we have had it for almost a year now and would like to breed and have more. can anyone help? it is just a common wild crayfish so i dont know the exact name. we could use all the help we can get.
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It can get pretty technical, but it can be done. First, you'll have to turn it over and hold it (or put it in a clear bottomed container and look underneath). The best photos I can find have captions in a foreign language, but I can try and explain what these are showing: http://www.crayfishworld.com/sexy.htm...
Crayfish have four pairs of legs, numbered 1 (closest to head) through 4 (closest to tail). In the photos in the link, the head is always to the left. One of the easiest features to see is the swimmerettes - these appendages look like little gills and are paired on the segments behind the last pair of legs. In females, the first pair is small or missing - in the males, they are well-developed. The swimmerettes can be seen in the second and third paired photos.
A little more difficult to see, but there are differences in the position of the pores that are the genital openings - where sperm or eggs are deposited - these are shown in the top pair of photos. In the males, the pores are at the base of the fourth pair of legs. The female has oviduct openings at the base of the second pair of legs.
i think that male crayfish are bigger than the females. does that help? sorry:(
How did you ever manage to keep a crayfish alive anyhow? I have never ben able to do so although nearly everything else I kept did very well in captivity. Did you know a female crayfish carries her eggs underneath her tail?
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