How to Breed Crawfish for Profit: Unlocking Rare Colors!

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  • @jamesflkid
    @jamesflkid Рік тому +28

    That blue cow is amazing

  • @Darkice77
    @Darkice77 Рік тому +115

    I have a 300 gallon aquarium that i set up a few years ago but with only tiny fish and dwarf crayfish. And lots of carpet type plants. I started with only 5 dwarf Mexican crayfish and they roamed everywhere. I saw 2 of them mating once and figured i would get a few babies. I didn't care, there was a ton of room. 2 years later i was having a crayfish problem. I had hundreds of them so i decided to sell them online. I sold them for 20 dollars each and made 8000 dollars in about a week. They went fast. I received tons of messages for freshwater shrimp but i only had the crayfish. I took the money from selling the tiny crayfish and invested in 3 more 300 gallon aquariums. I bought 3 different breeder groups of shrimp. They even came with Eggs. Right now there are a few dozen babies running around each tank and more eggs on the way.

    • @pamelamayeaux7458
      @pamelamayeaux7458 Рік тому +6

      Wow. Good investment. It's so weird to see all this, here they are a delicacy and we eat about 3 to 5 pounds per person. Sometimes we pay 7 to 8 bucks a pound. But they are just gray or black. Occasionally we find a blue one and the college here,LSU, have been studying them for medicine and whatever else they can.

    • @seek_9097
      @seek_9097 Рік тому +1

      🧢

    • @josuepiloso-v9n
      @josuepiloso-v9n Рік тому +2

      hey where did you buy the crayfish

    • @dratesdragetes777
      @dratesdragetes777 Рік тому +4

      Where did you sell them?

    • @chainsawdudeful
      @chainsawdudeful Рік тому

      i wonder if u can help? i wanna do that but im not sure whats the math behind things, if we can just brainstorm for 10 min i would appreciate it :D

  • @jillvelayos6599
    @jillvelayos6599 Рік тому +16

    I love the blue cow. That's a 10!

  • @cynthiasimmons3418
    @cynthiasimmons3418 5 місяців тому +4

    The pink and purple ones are gorgeous! I bet some of them absolutely slay under the blue light 🔵

  • @stopit1011
    @stopit1011 Рік тому +7

    I showed this to my dad, and now he wants to start crawfish breeding bussines :D

  • @gabbyy__
    @gabbyy__ Рік тому +35

    Not gonna lie, I didn’t know there were more than one color of crawfish. I am from Louisiana and we mostly eat red swamp crawfish in seafood boils. This blows my mind! 🤯

    • @MrChopsticktech
      @MrChopsticktech Рік тому

      Why would you lie?

    • @MaryWashington-j5u
      @MaryWashington-j5u 9 місяців тому +1

      Frm Louisiana also, this is mind blowing..

    • @Rick-the-Swift
      @Rick-the-Swift 6 місяців тому

      Not gonna lie, I'm from Indiana where most "crawdads" are a very dull brown and nobody that I know of ever eats them.🤠✌

    • @kismetteg6339
      @kismetteg6339 4 місяці тому

      @@Rick-the-Swift
      These sound like the type we’d rake up in the ditches for bait on trot lines!

    • @JoeRogansBubbleGut
      @JoeRogansBubbleGut 4 місяці тому

      @@MrChopsticktechhow is she lying? That’s a very normal statement

  • @richardvillafana8111
    @richardvillafana8111 11 місяців тому +5

    I love my two crayfish (vanilla and electric blue) but had never thought about breeding, but after watching your video, I think it is something that I'd love to do.

    • @loribeeloriess
      @loribeeloriess 8 місяців тому

      What did you purchase yours from?

  • @Dr.Z73
    @Dr.Z73 Рік тому +6

    That molting is pretty cool.

    • @gangway-ig9wn
      @gangway-ig9wn Рік тому

      I didn’t know it changed color during molt also

  • @scufxz6841
    @scufxz6841 Рік тому +25

    Where do you sell them once they are grown

    • @keithlol
      @keithlol 4 місяці тому +1

      They certainly don’t sell themselves!

  • @DarrinWoodside
    @DarrinWoodside Рік тому +17

    Yes, please proceed. This actually looks interesting. I've bred some weird stuff in the past, like emperor scorpions and corn snake morphs. I'm currently getting together a breeding colony of boa morphs for future projects. So, crayfish morphs seem to be right in my interest zone. Lol. Long live the Punnett squares!

  • @BradBee99
    @BradBee99 Рік тому +13

    This is amazing. I think I would definitely do it for fun and profit.

  • @Emmanuel-xo8ed
    @Emmanuel-xo8ed Рік тому +17

    He's one in a KRILLION!

  • @DeimosClown
    @DeimosClown Рік тому +2

    I've been wanting to do this for so long, and i love crayfish.

  • @st-gelaiskevin9202
    @st-gelaiskevin9202 Рік тому +8

    I subscribed hopping you will do the farming and document it...
    Thank you, it's really interesting!

  • @bunnysandhorses798
    @bunnysandhorses798 10 місяців тому +1

    I have an interest in breeding crawfish. I have ordered a breeding pair of blue crawfish and we have a bigger female already. I loved your video and look forward to more!

    • @loribeeloriess
      @loribeeloriess 8 місяців тому

      😊 I'm now definitely interested in doing this too. Can I inquire as to where you got your blue crawfish from where you bought them

  • @oleg3824
    @oleg3824 Рік тому +29

    Great video, still kinda confused how they come out with all different colors but I might need to breed some for decoration

    • @saltybrackishfresh
      @saltybrackishfresh  Рік тому +29

      I used a few different breeds in the video just to show how much variety you can get…
      Say you breed a red lobster with a blue lobster for example, you would get a bunch of diff variations of red, blue, and purple. If your goal was to get a solid purple, you can take out the few ones that achieved that color, grow them out, and then breed them again to get a deeper purple color.
      It’s like Punnet Squares that they taught us in biology

    • @triciabarr4620
      @triciabarr4620 Рік тому +1

      ​@@saltybrackishfreshfyi it "by accident" not on accident 😉

    • @isaiahfriday6128
      @isaiahfriday6128 Рік тому

      How much space does your hobby take?

    • @podnucmo5
      @podnucmo5 Рік тому +1

      ​@@saltybrackishfreshso... I have about 2000hrs in Ark Survival Evolved... and 70% of that was breeding in the same way you just said with the colors.
      So cool you're making money from doing that. Crush it bro.

    • @blobfishchin
      @blobfishchin Рік тому

      ​@@podnucmo5I was thinking the same thing

  • @petermurdoch7540
    @petermurdoch7540 Рік тому +8

    Wow, I had no idea there were so many colour mutations. In Australia we call them ‘yabbies’.

    • @ClareNewey-mx2bj
      @ClareNewey-mx2bj 3 місяці тому

      U seen the Marron from Western Australia they big and v tasty !

  • @6AlphaMikeCharlie9
    @6AlphaMikeCharlie9 11 місяців тому +2

    I used to breed dwarf 🦐 Shrimp i don't know about the US but in EU there a lot of money to be made.
    I changed over to Axolotl after a few years for the change.

  • @lonesteelwolfjacksonlonewo3412
    @lonesteelwolfjacksonlonewo3412 9 місяців тому +1

    This is super cool and very intriguing I would like to try this in the future with enough research😊

  • @tinalintz6323
    @tinalintz6323 Рік тому +8

    Do it. You seem very knowledgeable about crayfish and lobsters so yeah do it

  • @Drbong777
    @Drbong777 Рік тому +1

    Theyre so pretty, definitely sounds like fun. Might give it a shot

  • @axjagfilms
    @axjagfilms Рік тому +3

    Hell yeah crustaceans ftw

  • @darthclueless9372
    @darthclueless9372 4 місяці тому +1

    Brutal rizz 🤣🤣🤣 nice

  • @gwmjay3153
    @gwmjay3153 11 місяців тому +1

    Really enjoyed this video, could you do a more intense one with info on the breeding set up please

  • @paulfrank7164
    @paulfrank7164 Рік тому +1

    Idk why but this video was interestingly 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 af!!! An gone lie

  • @malayangkaalaman
    @malayangkaalaman 9 місяців тому +1

    Hey Nick if I have just a pair of bluejeans crawfish would it breed a different color? or should I try to breed it with another different color?

    • @loribeeloriess
      @loribeeloriess 8 місяців тому

      Can you please tell me where you bought your Blue Crawfish from?

  • @MrTeezbone
    @MrTeezbone 11 місяців тому +1

    this is cool I have an electric blue female carrying eggs right now in my 30 gallon tank with a few fish in there... I also have a regular red crayfish in there and guess they mated... I am thinking to separate them into a smaller 10 gallon tank... and see what happens next..??!!??

    • @loribeeloriess
      @loribeeloriess 8 місяців тому

      Can I ask where you bought your Blue Crawfish from

  • @trudeauanthonyof5202
    @trudeauanthonyof5202 Рік тому +4

    Where can I purchase these crawfish brother….would love to start with a pair for breeding???? Great video

  • @Johnny-jr2lq
    @Johnny-jr2lq 3 місяці тому +1

    I had a solid black wild crawfish walk into my garage in northern Michigan. I didn’t kill it I picked it up and let it go in the ditch in my front yard. But I wasn’t aware that they can make money.

  • @aprilfulls9371
    @aprilfulls9371 Рік тому

    Wow, their colors are lovely. Surely, it would be interesting to raise crayfish

  • @BESTSONGS1716
    @BESTSONGS1716 8 місяців тому

    Good day Sir...nice colorful crayfish....by the way,do you export Sir

  • @jamesgon7345
    @jamesgon7345 Рік тому +1

    I subbed I may wanna do this for fun bc Thor’s colors are crazy

  • @themermaidslairaquatics
    @themermaidslairaquatics Рік тому

    This is really informational! gorgeous crawfish!

  • @gingerlevenite-mi9lk
    @gingerlevenite-mi9lk 3 місяці тому

    Cool hobbit with a decent profit. Love the colors!

  • @Youneedalife.
    @Youneedalife. 10 місяців тому

    I love the crayfish..I'd love to start breeding the more colorful crayfish. I currently have 2 little ponds n 2 little tanks. One of which is a shrimp tank now. I'd love to expand more.

  • @MmmHuggles
    @MmmHuggles 9 місяців тому

    Wow, I didn't know crayfish could be so pretty.

  • @lopin890
    @lopin890 Рік тому +2

    They're beautiful!!!!❤️🦐❤️

  • @alexr8906
    @alexr8906 Рік тому +5

    Just subscribed and very interested!!!
    Where would you suggest to buy these rare species to breed for profit?

  • @pamelamayeaux7458
    @pamelamayeaux7458 Рік тому +28

    So weird being from Louisiana and we eat them. Seeing others raise and breed them for pets is different, but it's cool.

    • @Scarface_saiyan
      @Scarface_saiyan Рік тому +2

      We eat them on the west coast where I’m from too tbh this is more for people who enjoy having aquariums and want some color and variety as freshwater aquariums lack the colorfulness of salt water reef aquariums

    • @Natasha___.
      @Natasha___. Рік тому +4

      We eat them in Scotland too, I don't think there's a place where they aren't eaten.

    • @chriiiiii1061
      @chriiiiii1061 Рік тому +3

      Imagine a 4th of July where the crawfish come in looking like the American flag...it'd be an expensive party trick that vanishes when they're cooked 😂

    • @tradergirl7067
      @tradergirl7067 Рік тому

      we use em as bait in Missouri

    • @pamelamayeaux7458
      @pamelamayeaux7458 Рік тому

      @@tradergirl7067 I have too. They even sell an artificial bail that looks like a crawfish.

  • @debbietewinkel6316
    @debbietewinkel6316 Рік тому +6

    I'd love for you to breed them I'm very interested and may join you once I do more research!! That blue cow one was super cool! I'm going to look into this more tyvm!!!! Please keep posting!!! Very interested!!

  • @elnoxo1
    @elnoxo1 Рік тому

    lmao the summoming salt music. good video bro!

  • @Iamapuzzle
    @Iamapuzzle Рік тому +1

    I love the crayfish they are so colorfu

  • @lamarcraven2314
    @lamarcraven2314 Рік тому +2

    I would love to learn more about this, because they are some beautiful animals, and I would like to find out where would I be able to shop for the exotic ones?

  • @tobyskullbansheeo1409
    @tobyskullbansheeo1409 Рік тому +3

    I would like to have their sheds as a source of fertilizer for my plants 😅

    • @MrChopsticktech
      @MrChopsticktech Рік тому

      Great idea!

    • @karmicdisaster12
      @karmicdisaster12 4 місяці тому +1

      If you do have these awesome guys as a pet it’s actually better to keep the molt in the tank. After a molt they actually eat it for the calcium to help after the stressful process.

  • @thewairhouse
    @thewairhouse 8 місяців тому

    I almost happy cried watching this!🥲🥲🔥🔥🔥

  • @loribeeloriess
    @loribeeloriess 8 місяців тому

    I'm sold I want to do this now. Where can I buy the different color ones and what will I need to start off tank white supplies-wise crawfish wise

  • @Dragonbobjoe323
    @Dragonbobjoe323 3 місяці тому

    If you have a filter, do you need an air pump for crayfish breeding?

  • @AQUARIUMFREAK123
    @AQUARIUMFREAK123 3 місяці тому

    Any special food for the little babies or do you just throw in some sinking pellets ?

  • @Godschild712
    @Godschild712 Рік тому +2

    Yes I would breed them and make some profit but I would keep the ones that I think are just beautiful 😍.

  • @SouthBayFamily
    @SouthBayFamily Рік тому

    Hell yeah Bo!

  • @chrissysunshine7075
    @chrissysunshine7075 Рік тому +2

    I am very new to this. I would most definitely like to see you go through the process. Please do. Thank you

    • @candi4202
      @candi4202 Рік тому +1

      Yes, we wanna see more!

  • @thebackyardbear
    @thebackyardbear Рік тому +3

    I have been breeding crays for a short time, but I have not seen these morphs available ANYWHERE.

  • @moondog4313
    @moondog4313 Рік тому

    That's something I would definitely love to try to do

  • @anniehuang961
    @anniehuang961 4 місяці тому +1

    Recently, I went to a nearby river that was.. barely a river, and I caught a midnight blue crayfish with orange spikes on the claw. the tail looked identical to a lobster's which I thought was weird, because that shallow river only had brown ones that were awfully small.

    • @saltybrackishfresh
      @saltybrackishfresh  4 місяці тому +1

      @@anniehuang961 hey that sounds so cool! Do u have any videos of it? Did you take the crawfish home as a pet?

  • @Lharperreptiles
    @Lharperreptiles Рік тому

    Wow this is wicked I like this I never saw or knew it was different color crayfish this is cool is he'll I'm interested now!

  • @GigaElPro
    @GigaElPro Рік тому +2

    This sounds like something i wanna do. Do it too, we wanna see the progress

  • @amsf1
    @amsf1 Рік тому

    That black one was sweet. Never seen that before

  • @bartard5199
    @bartard5199 Рік тому +2

    Damn the sneaker heads are really stepping their game up now. I ain’t know about the crawfish colorways

  • @CK.CyroKurano
    @CK.CyroKurano 3 місяці тому

    I have a question; can I crossbreed an ARC Crayfish with a Neon Red Crayfish?

  • @ronnielee8238
    @ronnielee8238 5 місяців тому

    Got any advice on trying to breed elvers?

  • @japinoybettajapan
    @japinoybettajapan 10 місяців тому

    Wow beautiful ❤❤❤

  • @chrisbarbz9238
    @chrisbarbz9238 Рік тому

    Fascinating stuff.

  • @Phawks-Phire
    @Phawks-Phire Рік тому +6

    I'm confused. Do you sell each crawfish for a certain amount of money? Or is it the whole batch?

  • @mcmillanjustin903
    @mcmillanjustin903 6 місяців тому

    I want more videos of this it is interesting

  • @Coins24-7
    @Coins24-7 9 місяців тому

    The very interesting video I'm new to your Channel I have two crayfish from my own that were wild caught. I have one blue and one standard color. One appears to be a male cuz he's twice the size of what I think is the female which is the blue one. I would love to be able to breed them and have a clutch and see what happens is there any other additional information you would recommend for me?
    And yes sometimes they do appear to get violent with each other at one point he did detach one of her claws and that's my concern because she's the focus of my tank setup

  • @lukebirmingham9387
    @lukebirmingham9387 Рік тому

    Great video keep them coming 👍

  • @atrickalenzu4129
    @atrickalenzu4129 Рік тому

    Hi, where you can buy those crayfish colors here in USA?
    I need links or places
    pet stores don't have that quality colors.

  • @Ethereal.18
    @Ethereal.18 Рік тому +2

    Do it. I would love to keep up on the progress

  • @elmerkilred159
    @elmerkilred159 19 днів тому

    Are any of these good for eating?
    Asking for my friend in Louisiana.

  • @Theveryrealobama123
    @Theveryrealobama123 Рік тому +1

    I want to know can crayfish breed with different species of crayfish

  • @jmgalaxytab2325
    @jmgalaxytab2325 10 місяців тому

    Crayfish and lobsters are the insects of the underwater world, they are funny and smarter than you think (they actually do sleep having a REM phase, so they probably even have dreams 😂. They are good pets or food for other animals, including ourselves 😉. Breeding them is easy, start for fun, and end with some profit!

  • @slayeraryan
    @slayeraryan Рік тому

    I would and my fav is dark king and cow one

  • @kdog543
    @kdog543 Рік тому +2

    How well do they sell or how good do they ship through the mail. For when i was a kid I used to have a few snakes and had and breed hundreds of mice rats hamsters like for pets to all kinds animals and time i couldn't even sell them to the pet store at wholesale prices even or trade for instore credit as a kid and young teenager. Storage and supplies and upkeep takes alot too. So how is your luck just curious.

    • @TedH71
      @TedH71 Рік тому +2

      You would have to kill the mice and freeze them then pack them in vacuum freezer bags to make any profit.

  • @rogergonzales2480
    @rogergonzales2480 Рік тому

    WOW NICE

  • @blessedbeauty2293
    @blessedbeauty2293 Рік тому

    - Yes please make more videos like this. 👍🏽 I'm subscribing ❤

  • @stopfgans2496
    @stopfgans2496 Рік тому

    nice side hustle, keep up the grind!

  • @ShadowWolf-zw2dv
    @ShadowWolf-zw2dv 6 місяців тому

    I currently breed them but Where can I buy Exotic crawfish ? Like the ones in the videos I'm currently breeding just regular ones.

  • @Skinny2Shredded
    @Skinny2Shredded Рік тому

    so this is really cool but where would you sell them?

  • @growingorganicseedlings8660
    @growingorganicseedlings8660 Рік тому +1

    To whom do you sell them? Do you have a special website? Do you sell them to fish stores?

  • @johnnylean1806
    @johnnylean1806 Рік тому +2

    🔥🔥

  • @RakovaFerma_CrayfishFarm
    @RakovaFerma_CrayfishFarm 11 місяців тому

    Cool!

  • @capn.c5321
    @capn.c5321 Рік тому +2

    The better they look, the better they taste right 😋

  • @demetriechambers4293
    @demetriechambers4293 Рік тому

    How did you breed your crawfish like that blue one pls upload it pls

  • @palmtreemojo5878
    @palmtreemojo5878 Рік тому +1

    My boy gave a accidental one of a kind lobster a 9.5😂😂 if “unbiased” was a person

  • @DoDaDaDaDaCaDa
    @DoDaDaDaDaCaDa 10 місяців тому

    all my time shiny hunting finally pays off I was made for this lol

  • @letmesleepinpeace7052
    @letmesleepinpeace7052 Рік тому +1

    I probably want to do this for fun.

  • @kingdarkem
    @kingdarkem Рік тому

    Sounds like an interesting hobby

  • @broccolibroccoli9490
    @broccolibroccoli9490 10 місяців тому

    Hey can you breed a crawfish for speed or is that not something that's possible?

  • @blancagarcia40
    @blancagarcia40 Рік тому

    Yes you should do it

  • @bashmorningstar8305
    @bashmorningstar8305 8 місяців тому

    Could you recommend any good breeders

  • @honorableundead2273
    @honorableundead2273 6 місяців тому

    I just started catching invasive ones from the local rivers and i am thinking about breeding them for size as i am more intersted in making a sustainable food source

  • @MaryWashington-j5u
    @MaryWashington-j5u 9 місяців тому

    One question, where can I purchase a blue crawfish? I been looking..

  • @kenswirveaux5844
    @kenswirveaux5844 Рік тому

    TY I’m bout to get started

  • @richardlewis6006
    @richardlewis6006 Рік тому

    I would love to do that I think it would be a cool hobby

  • @JackPlayz0118
    @JackPlayz0118 3 місяці тому

    Yes I would

  • @livlee-o1o
    @livlee-o1o 2 місяці тому

    I have a Blue Male and an Orange Female Crayfish.. Was wondering what the offspring would look like Please help

  • @andresamaya7350
    @andresamaya7350 9 місяців тому

    I heard that Crawfish attack and cannibalize eachother though, would it be a good idea to secure their pincers with rubber bands for safety? That way you could keep a bunch together without carnage ensuing in the tank.

  • @speedbird1529
    @speedbird1529 Рік тому

    I’m actually trying to do this with my dwarf Cray fish I just started today after watching your video. Thanks for the inspiration. If it works I will edit this comment that it worked.

  • @johnhiggins9615
    @johnhiggins9615 3 місяці тому

    I would love to do this.

  • @dukeriggs5433
    @dukeriggs5433 Рік тому +3

    Honestly I think they're all pretty wild looking. Here I am thinking my marmokrebs are pretty 😅