Baby Crayfish Care Infographic

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This infographic is a “Beginner’s Guide to Raising Healthy Baby Crayfish”. It is divided into different sections with each providing specific information about caring for baby crayfish:

1. Overview: This section gives basic information about crayfish, including scientific and common names, size, weight, optimal temperature and humidity, diet, temperament, social nature, price, and lifespan.
2. How Are Crayfish Born?: It explains the breeding process of crayfish, detailing that a male and female in a tank will mate with the male depositing packets of sperm under the belly of the female. The female then carries the fertilized eggs in her swimmerets until they hatch.
3. Tank Setup for Baby Crayfish: This part provides tips on setting up a proper tank environment for baby crayfish. It includes details about substrate, water quality, filtration and aeration, hiding places, and tank cover.
4. Feeding: Suggestions for feeding baby crayfish are provided, emphasizing the need for soft food for the babies and crushed food pellets or algae wafer for the adults.
5. How Long Do Baby Crayfish Stay With Their Mother?: The infographic notes that baby crayfish stay with their mother for about 2 weeks, during which they start eating on their own and learn to be independent.
6. Do Crayfish Eat Their Babies?: It mentions that crayfish can be very bad parents, sometimes eating their own babies if they are allowed to remain around them once they start swimming freely.
7. What Do Baby Crayfish Eat?: This section lists the diet for baby crayfish, which includes algae, microorganisms, plants, decaying plants, etc.