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04-Sep-07, 10:17 PM
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Anyone have some of these? I'm talking about the cherux destructor not the feeder yabbies you buy from LFS etc.
I have 3 that were hand picked from a bunch of 25 nicely coloured ones. One is your regular grey with blue, one is completely blue and the other is grey with a pink tinge. They have awesome character and love watching them hunt down the tiny feeder goldfish. (That are housed in the tank for display purposes only of course  )
Post some pictures if you have any. I will take some as soon as the camera is charged. I'm also keen to buy some nicely coloured blue yabbies if you have any. PM me if you do.
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04-Sep-07, 10:20 PM
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I had a crab once. It was great, but he gradually ate all my fish. Amazing how they catch their food.
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04-Sep-07, 10:51 PM
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A couple of years back i went to this property when i was looking to buy a house. It said that their was a dam full of yabbies. WE got given the address and told to drive their alone, i went there but brought string along with meat. Brought home a heap of yabbies and sold them to the local pet shop. I somehow convinced them that they where Russian Yabbies
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04-Sep-07, 11:48 PM
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a blue cherax destructor? All i have found have been the normal tan color.
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04-Sep-07, 11:51 PM
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04-Sep-07, 11:53 PM
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i used to have 2 bright blue ones as pets when i was a kid. sadly they died after a couple of weeks, im not sure if that was due to the way they were kept or if they were sick when i got them.
oneday i might get some more after doing some proper research.
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04-Sep-07, 11:55 PM
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i was told that they are all bright blue if raised in clear, clean water. but that was by the same person who sold them to me and explained how to keep them, so maybe not the most reliable source.
EDIT: here is a link to some info if anyone is interested. http://images.google.com.au/imgres?i...%3Den%26sa%3DN |
05-Sep-07, 07:52 AM
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i had one of them, unfortunatly he got eaten the other night juring his moult, they are really cool pets and i have never had the problem wih them eating my fish..
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05-Sep-07, 08:01 AM
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I've got a bunch of them in a spare tank at the moment, they are the offspring of feeders I'd bought for my cichlids and turtles. Parents were originally the muddy tan colour, but keeping them in clear clean and well aerated water they all turn bright blue. I've seen blue yabbies being sold for $30 each while the tan coloured ones got for about $1.00....dont get conned, get the muddy yabbies and watch them turn blue within a couple of moults.
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05-Sep-07, 09:02 AM
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I think yabbies (and other freshwater crays found in Australia) make great pets.
The colour will vary the moults and how they are kept. In an aquarium I think most yabbies will eventually turn a light blue.
When they molt do not remove the shed shell as they need to eat this to maintain a healthy shell.
We bought some feeder yabbies for our turtles a couple of years back. I thought the turtles had hunted them all down. (Our turtles seemed to go from cute and playful to trained assassins when there was yabbies around.) A while back when cleaning the pond filter I found about 20 tiny yabbies quite happily living in the ponds biological filter.
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05-Sep-07, 11:35 AM
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I used to buy them from the fish market, You pay a per kilo price and they are alive. Most made the transition to the pond.
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05-Sep-07, 11:54 AM
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kinda off topic but has anyone seen mantis shrimp (american name i know) they are saltwater but they are amazing, they can break the glass of a fish tank with their tail
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05-Sep-07, 12:00 PM
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Many years ago when i worked at the carlton crest hotel Sydney they had a couple of foam boxes full of live yabbies. I took a heap home and swapped them at another petshop for rats which i fed to my snakes
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05-Sep-07, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by -Peter  I used to buy them from the fish market, You pay a per kilo price and they are alive. Most made the transition to the pond. | I used to get them from the fish market too, only mine turned bright red, I used boiling water, then put them on a fresh roll with a touch of mayo, mmmmm!
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05-Sep-07, 12:51 PM
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i get them from a local breeder here, 50cents each, feed them to me croc and also use em for fishing, great eating too
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