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We guarantee a very high-quality, breeding age young adult male/female crayfish pair for this listing!
Caution should be exercised when keeping large crayfish. The general rule with crayfish is: if it can catch it, it WILL try to eat it!
As with all of our crayfish, the coloration of Electric Blue Crayfish is EXTREMELY high quality - much higher quality than others on the market!
These crayfish may TEMPORARILY change color after molting, which may occur during shipping. If your crayfish is not blue and you find a molt in the bag or in your aquarium, do not worry; this is normal and the bright color will return in 2 weeks or less.

Description

Included is one male/female pair of Electric Blue Crayfish of the Procambarus alleni variety. These will be a young adults at around two to three inches long, but they grow up to five to six inches long as adults and become a more intense cerulean blue color as they grow.

These are very active crayfish that do not spend all of their time under rocks. They are well known for keeping tanks clean and free of waste. NOTE:Due to the size and waste production of this crayfish, a minimum 30-gallon filtered aquarium is necessary for one adult. A larger aquarium can house multiple adults of similar size.

Though crayfish are NOT friendly to other aquarium inhabitants, they can often live with fast-moving fish and animals that are not bottom-dwellers. They are fairly slow and only a sick fish would be able to be caught by the crayfish. We keep them with guppies and fire red cherry shrimp, and have never seen a death, but we cannot guarantee that dwarf shrimp will be completely safe if kept with a large crayfish. Also, they may eat live plants, though some are worse about destroying plants than others. These crayfish can live in almost any freshwater aquarium and are among the toughest freshwater tank inhabitants available to the hobby.

This is the blue variant of this species, with white specimens also being available.

RECOMMENDED TANK PARAMETERS:
- pH level range: 6.5 - 7.5
- Temperature range: 65 - 85 F
- Water type: Soft to hard
- Recommended Aquatic Arts tank mates: Fast-moving fish (such as danios, rasboras, guppies, etc.). Cichlids can be aggressive towards crayfish and should not be kept in the same tank.
- Additional notes: Crayfish prefer foods like invertebrate pellets or blanched vegetables, but will also eat fish food and algae wafers. Crayfish molt periodically and sometimes eat their old exoskeleton.