Recent content by CrawChuck

Close to 75% of the Largemouth Bass forage in nature is...believe it or not...Crayfish. That's why crayfish mimicking lures are the most effective at catching them. It would take quite a bit more effort to raise enough crayfish than it takes to raise live birthing fishes though. You may...

The Red Claws I have now came from Stick Fins Fish Farm in Elkton Florida. Myself and a group of others across the country and Canada are setting up an import of Walkamin Strain Red Claw directly from a grower in Australia. The North American Crayfish Plague does not affect our native crays at...

I don't intend to start an argument over the hardiness of your crays. I have a bunch of them! The intent was to point out they are succeptible to the plague virus carried by native North American crays. Cherax Quadricarinatus-Red Claw are considered the tropical of the bunch requiring warmer...

I've been reading past posts from a search on crayfish. Forgive me if this has been mentioned and I missed it. All Native American Crayfish are carriers of Crayfish Plague. It is very important to never mix species from North America and species from Australia...Yabbie, Red Claw, Marron, etc...

Thanks Tank Girl. HTML is not part of my vocabulary though :lol: . Sorry ya'll lost your crays moulting. They do that sometimes since it is very stressful on them. It's good to have a somewhat larger hide in the tank than a just-fit like they normally like to hide in. Takes a little extra...

Thank you Menagerie :D . Did that take special advisor stuff or can I do that? All lobsters are still alive and well today and that's a good thing. :mrgreen:

I'm erecting a 20' x 36' greenhouse to house two 12 ft. diameter pools for the main grow out tanks. Effluent will pump directly into gravel grow beds for plants and recirculate back to the tanks. This is along the lines of S&S Aquafarm's bioponic's or some call it aquaponics. We'll get algae...

I received 28 Australian Red Claw today in hopes of breeding and raising. They are really cool. You can read alot about crays and freshwater lobster at; Canadiancrayfish Forum May need to copy and paste that into your browser since this site figures ca as an abbreviation.

Thank you all for the warm welcome :mrgreen: . I know very little about fish and aquariums and can see from looking around this is a very well equipped fish forum! Don't see many crayfish though :( . That's OK. I bet there will be some here soon :D I have two native crays in a ten gallon...

Name's CrawChuck but ya'll can call me Chuck :mrgreen: . I like the green smiley face :D . My main intrest for coming here is learning water quality stuff as I am getting into raising freshwater lobsters and combining that with greenhouse aquaponics. I frequent another forum, Crayfish Addicts...