Monday, January 25, 2010

Red claw info

Red Claw crayfish or scientific name Cherax quadricarinatus. Origin from Australia and its widely farm as commercial. Redclaw is a sought-after product with a delicate crustacean flavour.

Size can reach up to 600g. Each female can spawn up to 300 olive green eggs at one time. And take around 6 weeks for it to hatch. The mature life cycle its around 6 - 12 months.

The red claw crayfish is the only legal pet crayfish in the UK, other than the signal crayfish which can only be kept in certain parts of the UK.

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