Too cool...anyone aware of their temperature tolerance? Looking for their lethal limit - says 46 is lethal to juveniles.
Tough to say. The study below noted survival of 60 percent over 6 days with a low temperature of 50 deg farenheit.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848698002907Apparently Arizona Fish and Game is worried that survival temperatures in the wild may differ from those in the lab.
http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/documents/RedClawCrayfishRiskAnalysis.docIn any case, I have an email out to the Virginia department of game and inland fisheries about what licensing is needed to purchase them, and once I get them, plan on toying around a bit to see what their cold tolerance really looks like.
I'm surprised that noone here seems to have their curiousity piqued as to how the redclaw would do as a forage species for bass. Obviously none of us are going to stock them, but it is an interesting intellectual question.
