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| One of the mothers.... beauty |
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| Correct that is a baby Cray. Sitting on Wanna's hand. |
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| Tiny fellows |
Sunday, 27 March 2016
Crayfish Part 8 Babies
Yes after the long wait they have arrived. Tiny things. We took a few photos and you can see how tiny they are. Pictured against the palm of Wanna's hand. Tiny indeed. It makes you think hard about just how wonderful life is. All these different creatures and surviving in so many different ways.
Monday, 21 March 2016
Crayfish Part 7
Been very quiet. Little to write about when all you've got going for you is a few crays in a round ponds. And all they do is sit in the plastic tubes all day! How many photos and stories can one write?....
Well surprise. Yesterday Wanna was clearing them out and we found 3 of the 4 females heavily pregnant. That is if pregnant is the right term. 2 of the ladies were loaded with eggs and one with babies. They keep them under their rear flipper. Big surprise and great excitement. We've separated them out from the males and will watch with interest as they develop. Not sure how long before we get babies swimming around. Watch this spot ! I know the suspense is killing you !!!!!!
Well surprise. Yesterday Wanna was clearing them out and we found 3 of the 4 females heavily pregnant. That is if pregnant is the right term. 2 of the ladies were loaded with eggs and one with babies. They keep them under their rear flipper. Big surprise and great excitement. We've separated them out from the males and will watch with interest as they develop. Not sure how long before we get babies swimming around. Watch this spot ! I know the suspense is killing you !!!!!!
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Crayfish Part 6
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Crayfish Part 5
Big spend this weekend. Went out to buy a new tank. Chose a big 800 litre low level one with a white inside. Wonderful to be able to see the Crays. Before I struggled to see them in the black tanks. It took a bit of time for them to settle down and choose their new homes. In fact they a vicious little things. Fighting and very territorial.
Anyway now they are settled. We got the tank from a road side shop and carried it home in one piece. Lugged it up the stairs and got it positions. Then added the sir stones and a small filter pump we have been using earlier. I still attached the automatic fish feeder. Not sure why as we look at them every day and always give them to much food. And veggies and egg shells and ....
We've had these guys for some time and apparently after reaching 6 months in age they should start breeding. We'll keep watching.
Just realized in up loading these pictures that Wanna is doing all the work. How did that happen ?
Anyway now they are settled. We got the tank from a road side shop and carried it home in one piece. Lugged it up the stairs and got it positions. Then added the sir stones and a small filter pump we have been using earlier. I still attached the automatic fish feeder. Not sure why as we look at them every day and always give them to much food. And veggies and egg shells and ....
We've had these guys for some time and apparently after reaching 6 months in age they should start breeding. We'll keep watching.
Just realized in up loading these pictures that Wanna is doing all the work. How did that happen ?
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| At the house |
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| Tank Cleaning |
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| On way to new home |
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| Settling in |
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| Each has his/her own condo |
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| Management Checking everything OK... |
Monday, 4 January 2016
Crayfish Part 4
Part of my new year planning and resolutions was to write my Blogs more frequently. Well its already the 4th Jan...... So that's not such a good start.
Automatic feeder working well. We've added in some grass/weed for them so the boys are quite happy.
We bought 8 new female crays last week. So hte boys are h appier still ! Added them to the tub and within a few days one jumped out and we are down to 7. They have no TV so waiting on some action and then we'll hopefully have some of our very own baby crays. No other news at this time.
Watch this spot.
Automatic feeder working well. We've added in some grass/weed for them so the boys are quite happy.
We bought 8 new female crays last week. So hte boys are h appier still ! Added them to the tub and within a few days one jumped out and we are down to 7. They have no TV so waiting on some action and then we'll hopefully have some of our very own baby crays. No other news at this time.
Watch this spot.
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| Sadly a dead Cray |
Friday, 6 November 2015
Crayfish Part 3
Been a quiet period. Started with 8 crays. We discovered 5 were male and three female. Bad planning !
We've added an automatic fish feeder which seems to preform OK. Simple battery operated thing. Very basic but does the job feeding them twice daily. Just seems to be like the air pump, keeps on working. Great for when we are away for a few days.
Anyway we've lost the 3 females. They jumped out of the tanks. Happened during a couple of really heavy rains. Not sure why this is, possibly a coincidence. Will need to cover the tanks with some netting to avoid this happening again. As for the loss we decided to replace them in next few weeks.
They a few days back, in fact two Saturdays ago we lost a male one as well. Again why we do not know. But Wanna found the little fella on the ground outside the front of the house. Would seem he jumped the tank and went with the rain water across our flat roof and out the over flow pipe. Very sad. Now down to 50% or if you prefer, 4 male crays.
But and its an amazing but ..! We went to eat breakfast last Saturday in a local restaurant, one we use quite often, and the adjacent shop sells live "Koi" fish. We always stop to look at these. Lovely colours etc. But this time we notices the tank also contained Crays. Great excitement we asked where they got them as we needed some female ones. Owner told us her husband breeds them on the first floor. And on the second floor is where he breeds the KOI. Big excitement as we have arranged to go back and see his set up next week. And of course get some female Crays.
Another thing happened to us also on the Saturday. In the evening we went to watch the rugby and as one does we got talking to a guy sitting near us. One thing led to another and we talked about why we were in Rayong etc. He responded "I build, install and run Aquaponics systems". He explained how he had been travelling the world installing "fodder" factories and various fish farms and more recently Aquaponics systems. So watch this space.
We've added an automatic fish feeder which seems to preform OK. Simple battery operated thing. Very basic but does the job feeding them twice daily. Just seems to be like the air pump, keeps on working. Great for when we are away for a few days.
Anyway we've lost the 3 females. They jumped out of the tanks. Happened during a couple of really heavy rains. Not sure why this is, possibly a coincidence. Will need to cover the tanks with some netting to avoid this happening again. As for the loss we decided to replace them in next few weeks.
They a few days back, in fact two Saturdays ago we lost a male one as well. Again why we do not know. But Wanna found the little fella on the ground outside the front of the house. Would seem he jumped the tank and went with the rain water across our flat roof and out the over flow pipe. Very sad. Now down to 50% or if you prefer, 4 male crays.
But and its an amazing but ..! We went to eat breakfast last Saturday in a local restaurant, one we use quite often, and the adjacent shop sells live "Koi" fish. We always stop to look at these. Lovely colours etc. But this time we notices the tank also contained Crays. Great excitement we asked where they got them as we needed some female ones. Owner told us her husband breeds them on the first floor. And on the second floor is where he breeds the KOI. Big excitement as we have arranged to go back and see his set up next week. And of course get some female Crays.
Another thing happened to us also on the Saturday. In the evening we went to watch the rugby and as one does we got talking to a guy sitting near us. One thing led to another and we talked about why we were in Rayong etc. He responded "I build, install and run Aquaponics systems". He explained how he had been travelling the world installing "fodder" factories and various fish farms and more recently Aquaponics systems. So watch this space.
Saturday, 12 September 2015
Crayfish Part 2
We've now had our 8 Crayfish since 25th August. That's 17 days. Not so long but its been interesting to see them make themselves at home. They have some plastic pipes to use as houses and netting to play in !!! Well we started off with 8 number. Put 2 in each plastic bowl, one male and one female.
They have all molted at least once. One died I think because it got caught up in the shade/netting cloth we have put in. It was something for them to play in. It got caught up whilst having a soft shell and no doubt our constant "playing" with them did not help !
In all our excitement to get them in the bowls the other week we did not measure them. We were told when we bought them they were two months old and nominally 2 Inches long. So now nearly 3 months old. And last night we did some measuring and they are nearly all 3 Inches long.
Great. Good growth. They seem to enjoy the fish/prawn food, raw potato slices and a little veg. Exciting... Remember at 6 months they mate and should produce lots of babies. Then we will get things up and running.
They have all molted at least once. One died I think because it got caught up in the shade/netting cloth we have put in. It was something for them to play in. It got caught up whilst having a soft shell and no doubt our constant "playing" with them did not help !
In all our excitement to get them in the bowls the other week we did not measure them. We were told when we bought them they were two months old and nominally 2 Inches long. So now nearly 3 months old. And last night we did some measuring and they are nearly all 3 Inches long.
Great. Good growth. They seem to enjoy the fish/prawn food, raw potato slices and a little veg. Exciting... Remember at 6 months they mate and should produce lots of babies. Then we will get things up and running.
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