Direct developer: the male turns the female over and places a sperm packet; within days she carries dark eggs under her tail, and after about 3-6 weeks 30-40 fully formed young are released. Separate young from adults or give many hides and leaf litter, as they eat each other.
Keep a group with more females than males.
20-40 L tank with many hides, plants and moss.
Warm water and good feeding.
Up to about 30-40 young hatch after 3-6 weeks.
Juveniles look like tiny crayfish; feed powdered food and moss.
Males have hooks on the 2nd and 3rd walking legs and forward-pointing V-shaped mating organs (gonopods) under the body; females are slightly larger (to 3.7 cm vs 3.1 cm).