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Re: Types of crayfish RStringer #518642 03/31/20 07:49 PM
Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 1,387 Likes: 53 Cartersville W wbuffetjr
wbuffetjr W Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 1,387 Likes: 53 Cartersville	Originally Posted by RStringer Can someone tell what kind and if these are good for a pond or not. I have creeeeeek that runs behind my pond and these are in it by the hundreds. Speaking from experience with these same question. To 100% identify Bill Cody will want better pics. Preferably with them on a white sheet of paper or in a jar of water and he will need to see their belly. Keep This Forum Viable, Read Pond Boss Magazine - America's Journal of Pond Management

Re: Types of crayfish wbuffetjr #518645 03/31/20 07:59 PM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS R RStringer
RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	These r really small right now. Will try I catch some alil bigger n the next few weeks. I thought they would be hard to ID being this small still. The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

Re: Types of crayfish RStringer #518858 04/04/20 04:52 PM
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snrub S Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 6,088 Likes: 101 SE Kansas	The screenshot is not displaying for me. Problem with the link? John I subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #518861 04/04/20 05:28 PM
Joined: May 2018 Posts: 2,386 Likes: 416 Texas J jpsdad
jpsdad J Joined: May 2018 Posts: 2,386 Likes: 416 Texas	I'm not able to get any pics that are hosted by the forum to display. Probably temporary. It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so - Will Rogers

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #518866 04/04/20 06:24 PM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS R RStringer
RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	The whole forum is having problems with them all. They are looking into it. The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #519286 04/12/20 06:37 PM
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RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	https://i.imgur.com/4mzPFEa.jpg Someone got an idea of what kind this is? Me in the kids played in the creek this weekend and she found this blue one. The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #519308 04/13/20 05:58 AM
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16,555 Likes: 411 Hurst & Bowie, Texas D Dave Davidson1 Moderator Lunker
Dave Davidson1 Moderator Lunker D Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16,555 Likes: 411 Hurst & Bowie, Texas	Dang, that looks like it would glow in the dark. It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color. Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done. Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP Grandpa

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #519320 04/13/20 09:30 AM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS R RStringer
RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	It was defiantly different than others we caught. The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #519325 04/13/20 10:14 AM
Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 2,346 Likes: 108 West Central Missouri Quarter Acre
Quarter Acre Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 2,346 Likes: 108 West Central Missouri	It is likely to be a genetic flaw that happens in Papershell and Norhtern Virile craws...very rare. Fish on!, Noel

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #525452 09/02/20 08:11 PM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS R RStringer
RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	Heres what I'm finding all over my yard (all around the pond). I can walk around and find One about every minute. They are full of babies. Can someone I'd these for me? I dont see alot of the big chimneys around my place like some talk about on here. I do have some that I believe have tunneled under our pool causing the liner to have low spots (not huge deal). I'm not really concerned about them more curious than anything. Attachments The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #525455 09/03/20 06:13 AM
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jim100 J Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 145 Likes: 12 MI	Wow that is cool!

Re: Types of crayfish RStringer #525457 09/03/20 06:32 AM
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 4,598 Likes: 37 Raymond, NE S Shorty Lunker
Shorty Lunker S Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 4,598 Likes: 37 Raymond, NE	Originally Posted by RStringer Heres what I'm finding all over my yard (all around the pond). I can walk around and find One about every minute. They are full of babies. Can someone I'd these for me? I dont see alot of the big chimneys around my place like some talk about on here. I do have some that I believe have tunneled under our pool causing the liner to have low spots (not huge deal). I'm not really concerned about them more curious than anything. Best guess. https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/grassland-crayfish-prairie-crayfish

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #525474 09/03/20 11:03 AM
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 22,032 Likes: 483 Miss. E ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker
ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 22,032 Likes: 483 Miss.	First part of this thread has great info on craw types. Nice work guys.

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #525497 09/03/20 08:51 PM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS R RStringer
RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	Thank you for the replys - I will read back thru this thread. The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #525508 09/04/20 06:27 AM
Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 145 Likes: 12 MI J jim100
jim100 J Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 145 Likes: 12 MI	A crayfish that has nothing to do with water other than what rain flows down their burrow is pretty amazing.

Re: Types of crayfish RStringer #525512 09/04/20 07:34 AM
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jpsdad J Joined: May 2018 Posts: 2,386 Likes: 416 Texas	Rusto, I think the crayfish you are finding around the house just might be these .... https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/grassland-crayfish-prairie-crayfish jim100, the burrow always has water or the crayfish has to move. The prairie types tend to occupy areas with an underlying hardpan. The top soils have a lot of clay but are permeable enough to support a very slow flow. Because of this, a water table of sorts lies above the hardpan after being saturated. As the table slowly dissipates, they dig deeper to stay in water. They are as you said, amazing creatures. Last edited by jpsdad; 09/04/20 07:41 AM. It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so - Will Rogers

Re: Types of crayfish snrub #525523 09/04/20 11:58 AM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS R RStringer
RStringer R Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,473 Likes: 109 Parsons KS	So it sounds kinda like they wont stick around the pond. Well I went around and picked up prolly 20 of them full of babies and put them on the ponds edge. They all took off for the water. Maybe became lunch who knows. The people who say I can't do it can just sit the @^#% down and watch me. Friends call me Rusto I also subscribe to pond boss mag. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504716#Post504716

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