Backyard Aquaponics
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Electric blue marron are awesome hey. I had one to feed snails for a while was a big girl. Ended up having to sell it but it was big hey I dunno maybe 40cm or more.
They sell well if anyone was gonna breed to eat/sell

I'm not allowed Marrons here in VIC am I?
What am I allowed? Just Yabbies?

Also electric blue yabbies - they look cool - are they juat a mutation? About 1 in 100 in my old man's dam on his farm are electric blue, and the aquarium charges liek $10 each for them.

These electric blue yabbies are really pale though, almost translucent but blue... looks like they'd break if you touched em. Not at all like any of the photos posted on this thread already.

Pretty though. I can't imagine they taste much different.

recessive gene. You can breed for it easily. Just sell all ur normal looking ones to the bait shops. Throw the blue ones back in the pond. B4 u know it, a pond full of blue yabbies.

I was to keep Yabbies in a really clean environment for long enough, with each successive moult they will theoretically become blue. However some will some won't.

The electric blue marron, I believe is a sub-species.

No tim I don't mean they way standard yabbies blue up with red in their joints. These things exist in the wild, and are exceedingly pale, and blue all over, no other colours... almost like an albino yabbie but... blue. I've never had a captive yabbie 'turn' that colour.

What kind of crustations other than yabbies can I grow (and preferably breed) in Melbourne, Victoria?

Freshwater crabs, freshwater mussels, prawns, redclaw.... there are heaps around.

hmmm mussels... I've seen them in aquariums before...
what on earth do you feed them?

And where will I find those other mbreeds you mentioned for sale? Do they all breed as prolifically as yabbies?

You want Redclaw... taste better I understand

http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/fishweb/13890.html

http://www.crayfishworld.com/yabby5.htm

http://govdocs.aquake.org/cgi/reprint/2 ... 040090.pdf

I want to do red claw myself...

Redclaw would require heating during a Victorian winter.

Good reference on all aspects of "Redclaw"

http://www.aquaculturecouncilwa.com/spe ... aw/redclaw

Livefish has electric blue marron... expect to pay good money for them though.

Mussels will feed on detritus and any sort of crap... literally.

Tim, I have found multiple articles that state Marron are illegal in Victoria - which I had heard already on the greatVine... more's the pity for us poor Vics.

Are they allowed as "aquarium" fish KP

Perhaps the laws only relate to "farming" them.