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Very cool looking creature 
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Steve says if you keep him in boiling water he will turn totally orange :tasty:20xwater said:Google says if I keep him in clean/clear water he will turn totally blueSandta said:Very cool looking creature
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Yes, they take on the colour of their surrounds. Green, Blue, Brown, or even reddish brown if it were say in a dam in red ironstone stained soil.
These ones were all green/brown, because I grew them out in EDU's in a stainless steel milk tank in mostly darkness.
Some years ago people were making money selling brilliantly blue yabbies that were raised inside bright blue tanks. Aquarists would buy them for their display fish tanks, only to be disappointed after their first moult when their color changed. Kind of like the Aquarists version of buying a Duffer mine or selling dubious gold
These ones were all green/brown, because I grew them out in EDU's in a stainless steel milk tank in mostly darkness.
Some years ago people were making money selling brilliantly blue yabbies that were raised inside bright blue tanks. Aquarists would buy them for their display fish tanks, only to be disappointed after their first moult when their color changed. Kind of like the Aquarists version of buying a Duffer mine or selling dubious gold
Awesome and interesting,Deepseeker said:Yes, they take on the colour of their surrounds. Green, Blue, Brown, or even reddish brown if it were say in a dam in red ironstone stained soil.
These ones were all green/brown, because I grew them out in EDU's in a stainless steel milk tank in mostly darkness.
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Some years ago people were making money selling brilliantly blue yabbies that were raised inside bright blue tanks. Aquarists would buy them for their display fish tanks, only to be disappointed after their first moult when their color changed. Kind of like the Aquarists version of buying a Duffer mine or selling dubious gold
Are you saying that the blue colour change restarts every time it sheds if kept in a blue tank?
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They are interesting creatures for sure. Yes, they adopt the general color of their surrounds, which of course makes sense for camouflage & protection. Whether they can consciously do so or not, or whether it's some evolutionary chemical reaction that takes place on it's own without their input I don't know, but they molt a number of times throughout their life and their new shell will become a different color if their surrounds are changed. That's a very healthy looking specimen you have caught there by the way, and it looks more like one that has come out of clean water rather than a muddy, weedy dam.
Yeah the dam is spring fed I think coz allways full and the ground around it is really wet with clean water.Deepseeker said:
New design, roof entry, bait cage is the access hatch.
Dam sampler lol
Triangular faces not quite equalateral lol
We used to see how many we could Hypnotize / put to sleep , and line up before they started to wake up again. great fun after a few coldys and an evenings yabbieing in the house dam Or the irrigation channel.
I reckon you'll lose them as soon as you go chasing camels again. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Doug
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Doug
Come'on MT, you've got miles of conveyor belt and you put "G" strings on your wheels?
Too long in the bush mate!layful: :inlove: :lol:
Too long in the bush mate!
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Asking for a friend. Are they wide enough ?
