Mexican Dwarf Orange Crayfish - Keeping Feeding and Breeding

In this video, I tell you everything you need to know about keeping feeding and breeding Mexican Dwarf Orange Crayfish, also known as the CPO Crayfish.

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The Mexican Dwarf Orange Crayfish (or the CPO Crayfish) is a dwarf species of crayfish from the waters of Mexico. Whether you call them a crayfish, crawfish, crawdad or mudbug, these mini lobsters (or so they appear) are super neat and interesting invertebrates.
The care for these little dwarf crayfish is very similar to that of Neocaridina shrimp with only a few differences. They do prefer a neutral to alkaline ph and they need hard water with lots of calcium to promote healthy molting. They are omnivores that will eat everything from live blackworms and snails to frozen foods, pellet foods and even vegetables. Unfortunately, they will even eat each other if they are cramped for space and are given a good opportunity (finding a fellow cray just after it's molted) and baby crays are highly prone to attacking their newborn siblings as well so plenty of hiding spaces (caves, nooks and crannies) is imperative if you want to keep a group of these mexican dwarf orange crayfish or if you intend to breed them.
Breeding is relatively easy with these guys. All you have to do is provide a proper tank with good water and plenty of hiding spaces, feed them well and make sure you have a male and female.
The male dwarf crawfish will flip the female crayfish over onto her back and hold her down for the mating process. A few weeks later the female dwarf crayfish will be carrying a bundle of little crayfish eggs under her tail. The CPO crayfish mother will carry these eggs for four to five weeks before they hatch.
Once hatched, the baby dwarf crayfish are just like little copies of their parents, claws and all. They can even go right to eating the same foods as their Mexican Dwarf Orange Crayfish parents.

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