CPOs & Breeding
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This will vary from one cray to the next. My advice would be to remove the famale once you notice she is berried. Put her in an isolation tank, make her super comfy with hidey holes and moss and floaters. Once you see the babes running about return her to her tank and keep the babies in there to grow them out. Once they are large enough that they start to turn orange, they should be safe with the mature crays.
Yes. I would mimic her regular tank parameters. Easiest way to do this would be to just fill the 2.5 with water from the main tank at the time you are moving her. A little bit of cycled filter media from the main tank placed in the 2.5's filter will make it instantly cycled for her. A single CPO has a very small bio-load so you should be able to do this without experiencing any mini cycle.
No prob. Another thing I thought to mention, in case it wasn't already in the plans, is to make sure the filter is safe for the babies. A sponge filter is great or if it's a hang on back style you can rubberband a peice of pantyhose around the intake tube. 
Hmm, that's hard for me to say for sure. I have a male and female in my 29 gal community. I am setting up a breeding tank for them since I've yet to see the female berried in their current tank. The m and f are peaceful with eachother, but I wouldn't be suprised if males had some territorial battles from time to time..I'm really not sure yet. I probably wouldn't start with more than 3-4 pairs in a 10 gal..and then if it's totally peaceful you could add more.
They are with dwarf shrimp, various snails, julii and panda corydoras, glo-fish, a female betta, dwarf gourami, glo-fish, hillstream loaches, and various other fish have come and gone from the tank in the time I've had them. They do just fine. If someone comes down towards them fast and spooks them or gets too close when they've just grabbed up some food they might give a little warning poke but that's the extent of it and judging by the reaction of the fish, it's only mildly irritating. I've never seen them actually pinch anyone. I've had good luck with the fish I've kept with them and the crays have never been injured. One time I added a female betta who started going after shrimp and seemed too interested in the crays so I removed her right away. Otherwise no problems. I think I've had pretty good luck though
Yeah I'm really interested to see for myself. Hopefully I can get some babies out of this pair and find out. I certainly can't afford to order more and I'll probably never find them locally. The $20 a peice price tag was before shipping lol.
