Effect of planting density on the results of growing in artificial conditions for Australian red-clawed crayfish with immobilized claws
https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2025-205-167-178
EDN: ZOBSVH
Abstract
Results of experimental growing of Australian red-clawed crayfish with immobilized dactylopodites (movable fingers) of claws are considered. Effects of planting density on body size and weight gains, duration of intermolting intervals, number of completed moults, and survival of crayfish were evaluated in three sections of aquarium with the same bottom area but different density, as 150, 255 and 350 ind./m2. At the end of the experiment (120 days), 75 ind./m2 had survived in the first section (50.0 %), 102 ind./m2 (40.0 %) in the second section, and 114 ind./m2 (37.5 %) in the third section. Crayfish in the first section were less aggressive towards their neighbors, less stressed, and their mortality during molting was lower than in the other sections (35 %). In the intermolting period, the crayfish mortality was approximately equal in all sections (15.0–17.5 %). Effect of the dactylopodites immobilization for reducing aggression and cannibalism of redclaws during their growing in artificial conditions is discussed.
Keywords
redclaw,
cannibalism,
immobilization of claws,
molting,
survival,
planting density,
crayfish aggression,
crayfish injuring
Supporting agencies: The study was conducted within the framework of budgetary funding of the Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)
About the Author
V. S. Zharnikov
Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vyacheslav S. Zharnikov, Ph.D., senior researcher
19, Okruzhnoj proezd, Moscow, 10518
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Zharnikov V.S. Effect of planting density on the results of growing in artificial conditions for Australian red-clawed crayfish with immobilized claws. Izvestiya TINRO. 2025;205(1):167-178. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2025-205-167-178. EDN: ZOBSVH
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