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Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions. I really appreciate it. We're thankful for all the advice we can get. They're even smaller than a piece of gravel, so just finding them and seeing if they're alive is difficult.

We'll be removing her tonight. No other fish or live organisms or plants in the tank. It was just mamma, and now it's just babies. We have gravel, a slate hiding rock and cave, artificial plants of varying sizes, a filter, and wall bubbler. So, live plants and cuttlebone...anything else?

Thank you, I truly appreciate the help. Any advice is great at this point as we never expected to have the babies, so we're totally unprepared for them!

Thank you so much for your help!! Momma Cray died yesterday afternoon (a combo of a bad molt and the high ammonia) but the babies were still attached to her, hanging on, so we left them in there in hopes they'd make it. They just crawled off her this morning as we were leaving for work, but...

Our blue crayfish had eggs but since she'd just survived a stressful cycle and developed fungus on most of the eggs, we assumed they were infertile stress eggs or eggs laid prior to molting or that the fungus had killed them all. Well, some of those eggs just hatched this morning and we have a...

We got a 20 gallon tank about 1 month ago, got a blue crayfish for it, and then learned about cycling (oops). So we've been cycling and blue cray appears to be handling it well. She's a tough one! The ammonia spiked for a few days and then went down again to zero, as expected, but we've been...

We got our blue cray a few weeks ago. She seems to have adjusted to her new home pretty well. She lives by herself in a 20 gallon tank with lots of gravel, plants, a wall bubbler, and a big slate rock turned cave she can hide in. Temp 71 degrees, pH 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 5, nitrate 8-10 (we...

Our blue cray is behaving oddly. She isn't eating, is staying hidden in her slate cave, and she keeps using all her little legs over the top of her body to - what looks like - scratch her shell and pick at herself constantly. Are these signs that she could be molting. We are new cray owners and...

Thanks for the advice. The full test kit was supposed to arrive Friday but the postal service lost it...we're hoping to get it in today so we can make sure her levels are still fine. I'm glad to hear the cloudiness will clear on its own...will the slight bacterial odor in the water clear on its...

Yeah I was thinking a bit of a water change and maybe a few drops of API Accu-Clear to clear out her tank a little. I think I'm done messing with pH.

Thanks! We do own a test kit, but it's very basic, just pH. The full scale 7-in-1 is in the email. Everything read safe, except our pH where we live is up near 8, so we used 1/2 RO and 1/2 tap with dechlorinator to try to bring the pH down a little bit.

Hello, We just brought our blue crayfish home today. We purchased her from a specialty fish shop. There she was housed in a 20 gallon long tank kept at about 78 degrees with a pH of about 7.4 and mostly RO water. Our tank is new (as we're new to owning fish) and was just recently set up. It's...

Hello, We are setting up our first tank in anticipation of the blue crayfish who will soon be occupying it. It is a 20 gallon freshwater tank. We live in an area with hard water and a relatively high pH. We filled the tank with tap water, added a tap water dechlorinator, let it acclimate, and...