Blue Marbled Crayfish

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Blue marbled crayfish.

No natural populations of marbled crayfish are known. Their offspring will be excat clones of their parents. 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. You will receive one juvenile marbled crayfish.

Journal of zoology 276 1 1 13. 1 11 11021 mp4 video by knecritters photobucket. Suitability of the clonal marbled crayfish for biogerontological research. 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.

Marbled crayfish are closely related to the slough crayfish procambarus fallax which is widely distributed across florida. They are for lack of a better term self cloning. Information provided by one of the original pet traders as to where the marbled crayfish originated was deemed totally confusing and unreliable. 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.

Marble crayfish are non aggressive and cannot be housed with shrimp. A new model organism for research on development epigenetics and evolutionary biology. Video of her tearing up my sword plant blue marbled crayfish. Marble crayfish do not need a mate in order to breed.