dwarf crayfish

[harrishawk]

Anyone else find dwarf crayfish around the Houston area?

[Spot86t]

Re: dwarf crayfish

I've caught several varieties, but none of the dwarfs.

[harrishawk]

Re: dwarf crayfish

i've only found two varieties of the large crayfish but the dwarfs seem to range in color wildly.
here are some of the colors i've noticed red blueish green gray brown molted. ill take some pictures today and post them up for you guys.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: dwarf crayfish

I remember always catching the brown green ones in the bayou near my house when I was little...they never seem to get any bigger then about 2".

[harrishawk]

Re: dwarf crayfish

They seem to be sexually mature at 1.5 inchs or thats when i see females berried. The ones i found 2 weeks ago are coloring up very nicely majority of they have highlighs of blue one there tail and carapace.

[harrishawk]

Re: dwarf crayfish



Heres a shot of one of the females.

[PlanB]

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I caught some at my old office through a storm drain. Nobody believed me that there were any, so I got really long piece of tape, wrapped somebody's leftover chinese chicken on one end, and was able to hoist him out when he grabbed on.

[harrishawk]

Re: dwarf crayfish

How big was it?

[PlanB]

Re: dwarf crayfish

I want to say about 2-3 inches. This was in the Kroger office building parking lot behind the Portofino shopping center where we met. I paraded it around the office lest anybody doubt me again.







And in case anybody was wondering, it was delicious!!!







Just kidding, I let him go after I proved my point.

[harrishawk]

Re: dwarf crayfish

see this one is a dwarf cray staying at about 1.5inchs tops