Crayfish Breeding Question

[easterbunny67]

Hello,
I was wondering if the crayfish have to be the same species to be able to breed successfully. For example can a blue crayfish breed with a normal crayfish (and by that I mean the ones sold as feeders)?
Thanks. :thumb:

[Siamese Fighter 1]

Breeding. Most crayfish lay eggs in the spring. Females lay dozens of eggs and attach them to their swimmerettes (their tiny back legs). These “in berry” females protect their eggs and young. Her busy little legs move the eggs around and thus aerate them constantly. Egg hatching time depends upon temperature. The young stay under her tail until their first molt. If you pester them and knock them loose, most will quickly return to mom. In a week or so, they go out on their own

[easterbunny67]

ummm. I know how crayfish breed..... i want to know if different varieties of crayfish can breed together, but thanks anyways

[squirt_12]

um...i wouldn't think so i thinkt hat it would be the same thing as sying a swordtail could breed with a guppy. But i could be absolutly wrong.

[Fishguy2727]

It depends on how closely the two species are related. I wouldn't waste blue genes on a normal.

[kkevvy]

Blue crayfish are just a genetic variation of regular crayfish... same thing with blue lobsters. They are the same species. They could mate, but you'd have a regular baby (the regular gene is highly dominant to the blue gene)