Tx Devil Crawdad

[Galapoheros]

Some of you might remember that I've talked about a weird colored crawdad I found when I was a kid. I finally found one pic of it. I think I'll try to find one again but they are hard to find. I also ordered the book on this site.
http://www.texascrawdads.com/texas_crayfish_photos

 

[RoachGirlRen]

Oh wow! Great looking crawdad. I have a few crays myself but nothing that ornate. Thanks for sharing!

 

[dunawayj]

Try wading below Mansfield Dam. You will freeze you **** off but it used to be crazy thick with crawfish. Know a couple other places in Round Rock that you might could try. Cant guarantee the Tx Devil but there will be plenty of crawfish.

 

[Canth]

I find those all the time! I had no idea what their common name would be. I find them in the ditches here under trash and rocks.

 

[Galapoheros]

Cool!! That looks like a young one. I wonder if there's a color diff with age, or locality. I remember that they look nice under a fluorescence light in an aquarium, the colors look painted on. The ones I found were in Bryan. I'm still not 100% that this is the sp I saw but I sure think so. Crawdads are all over the place, I could catch 100's of them in a day on some flood plain I have access to, but not these, they are just not very common around Bryan. That's what the author of the crawdad book said anyway. Alright, I'm a little fired up about crawdads now, haha. I'm going to look for diff kinds next time I go to Bryan. You can put a little piece of meat on a string and drop it in the burrowing sp holes to get them to come up. I remember the lines on the tail being orange but it's been 25 or 30 years since I saw one of those.

Do you know the sci name?, might be able to find more pics.

 

[Canth]

Found it!
Cambarus ludovicianus
I googled and found this thread on a crayfish forumhttp://www.bluecrayfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1266

I find them a lot, sometimes with very bright coloration and sometimes the blue will be just a dull gray. The gray ones could be approaching a molt or something. I tried to keep one but it didn't work out very well. I may try again!

 

[Matt K]

Sadly, many native crayfish are being rapidly displaced by the introduction of the asiatic crayfish....

 

[Seth]

Well this species isn't suffering in the houston area at least. One of our most common crayfish.

 

[davidbarber1]

Just out of curiosity, are these guys edible??

David

 

[Canth]

The ones I've found aren't very big. 2" at the most

I was going through pics and came across this:

That one was found in the same ditch the TX Devil was

 

[davidbarber1]

Absolutely gorgeous coloration. Thanks for sharing.

David