Direct developer: females lay 20-40 eggs depending on size; fully formed young hatch after 4-6 weeks and stay under the mother 1-2 days. In the wild it breeds year-round in SE Louisiana; most males first breed in their second season.
Keep a group with more females than males.
20-40 L tank with many hides, plants and moss.
Warm water and good feeding.
20-40 eggs (depending on female size); young hatch after 4-6 weeks.
Juveniles look like tiny crayfish; feed powdered food and moss.
Form I males have hooks on the 2nd and 3rd walking legs and V-shaped gonopods where the carapace meets the tail; females are slightly larger.