Mama just came out of her hideout. What an overachiever!

Seen a lot of post having to do with the shrimp secret service meetings lately. Think it’s safe to say they’ve organized and made contact with their shrimp overlords as well

If you have a crayfish with spots like this that is in your tank or you are planning to add to the tank you need to stop immediately if you have other crays and keep it far away from your crays and clean your hands and arms and any other contaminated surfaces. This is White Spot Syndrome Virus. It only affects crustaceans so it can't spread to your fish, but it WILL spread to your crayfish like wild fire and there is NO cure or ANY treatment. The best thing you can do if you have a crayfish infected with this virus is keep it isolated only to tanks with fish or other infected crayfish and be sure to keep any contaminated fish or equipment in the contaminated tanks only. Symptoms will include lethargy, lack of appetite, red discoloration in the body and appendages, and loose cuticle. Crayfish generally are not affected by many illnesses especially not procambarus clarkii (louisianna crawfish) and procambarus alleni (electric blue lobster) but there are illnesses that can be absolutely devastating to them as well as to entire populations of them so please be very careful and do lots of reading especially on illnesses and especially if you are doing any sort of breeding program. And if anybody does have any sort of breeding program going I am going to post a link in the comments to an article about a genome sequence being bred into shrimp to make them resistant to the virus. I am going to start doing some research and see if this is a genetic trait I can find in crawfish to see if I can possibly find one on the market to purchase and help propagate and expand on those genes.

Thoughts?

My little girl is berried for the very first time which makes me anxious. She is enjoying her shrimp pellet 💕 Last photo of the father. Any advices much appreciated 😊

I know that I used shrimp as an example in the last post but here are some crays with the virus. The spots can appear very will and may also appear as part of the crayfish' pattern if it happens to have exotic genetics. Once your crayfish get this virus you can't get rid of it and it is very contagious so please pay close attention, do your reading & due dilligence, and keep a close eye on your lil krabby patties.

Please join me in welcoming u/natay_woop and u/SWEETJUICYWALRUS to the mod team for r/Crayfish! I am confident they will do a great job helping me to maintain and improve this sub.

Epic moustache! It's end was where the writing starts 👍🦐 awesome molt no 2went well and I have a beautiful female cherax which is nice but they all look alike, thinking I'll get a fella next but that's a few yrs off yet.Me and Miss Pincher are long term and very serious! 🤵🦐👰Lol, peace and love y'all 👍✌️

These little beauties have id'd a 🐌 of sorts, responsible for the white dots on my tank, not even Googled it.Next step 🤦🏼‍♂️ I'm guessing bladder 🐌.

Miss Pinchy had a small spot on one claw.Didnt die,got stronger.

Above,jammed enceremoniously into the bag door of her first log is Pinchys first molt in my care😉 same pic different bollx

i would like to know if i can house cory cats hillstream loaches bn plecos or kuhli loaches with a male and female electric blue crayfish in a 125gallon?