So I brought back some crayfish from MO that I'd like to use to start a breeding program with... so I set up a tank for them in the living room and everything, half-full with water. Yesterday I came in from the garden to the bedroom and find one in the middle of the floor. I almost hit the celieng because at first glance I thought it was a scorpion. Turns out houdini as he is now named, pulled himself out by climbing up the air hose, then took a walk about in the house. It was pretty funny.

The moral of the story is, if you're keeping crayfish, keep a tight lid on, and anything going into the tank, needs to be tightly sealed through the lid. Fortuneately they can survive for extremely long times out of water, so houdini's just fine.

By the way, these are the three species I have... I'm going to seperate each of the three species into their own tanks a bit later, but for now, I just have 2 tanks, so they are all mixed.

Orconectes (Procericambarus) longidigitus (Faxon, 1898)
Blue Legged crayfish


Orconectes (Procericambarus) medius (Faxon, 1884)
Saddlebacked crayfish


And my favorite, of which I have the most of:
Orconectes (Procericambarus) neglectus neglectus (Faxon, 1885)

This is what Houdini looks like by the way.

Awesome, SM. I've got a crawfish of my own. He came in on a shipment of about 700 feeder goldfish. He was scurrying around the bottom of the tank when I noticed him. He's got little tiny claws, nothing that could do any possible damage to anything. However he is eating my pond fish, haha! I think they had already passed before he found them, though. He's quite the character. I'd love to have an extra tank full of them.

:o Hey you two! SM, and Mazza. Did you forget that we have a newer forum on invertabrates?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

By the way Love the pics. Good choice! Though they are hard to breed so good luck. :up:

They are great crayfish bet they could pack a strong nip.