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intowin
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I live on a freshwater lake near Tampa Fl, also near the bay. There used to be many very large blue crabs in my lake, but after much harvesting they have dwindled down. I have been heading to the river with my crab traps which is also fresh water and transporting them back to the lake, in the hopes to recover the population. When I turn them loose they seem to swim off just fine. To make sure I put a couple in a large plastic trash can with holes in it to make sure they did not die. They lived fine for five days but today I went out there and they were dead. Do you think the ones that are free to live in the lake will die as well or was it due to their confinement<
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crabs dont live in fresh water they only live in saltwater so im not sure they should die
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Quote from: Obres45 on August 15, 2010, 09:48:48 PM
crabs dont live in fresh water they only live in saltwater so im not sure they should die
Of course they will live in fresh water, the crabs you released should make it,just remember if you want to repopulate the lake you need boys and girls.
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Don't the femails need to go to high salinity for the reproductive cycle? Charlie
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Like I mentioned before this lake has had blue crabs in it for years. I think you are right, that the females need higher salinity or at least high calcium levels to reproduce. I dont think they are reproducing, however I want to stock the lake again. It is easy to just get them off my dock verses heading to the river. Hopefully since I am putting crabs that were caught in fresh water back into fresh water they in fact will make the transition. It just concerned me a few died in the trash can that was floating off the dock. It may have just been too hot on the lakes surface however..
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Quote from: Crabs n clams on August 16, 2010, 10:06:35 AM
Don't the femails need to go to high salinity for the reproductive cycle? Charlie
We have landlocked impoundments on our refuge that have had sponge crabs caught in,now I can't tell you if they will complete the cycle or not but these places were full of male and female crabs along with peelers.
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I have never heard of Blue Crabs living in Fresh water. If that is the case I will put some in my creek behind my home.
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Quote from: Greatharvest1 on August 25, 2010, 02:51:40 PM
I have never heard of Blue Crabs living in Fresh water. If that is the case I will put some in my creek behind my home.
Water maybe to cold
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Crystal River(FL) is spring fed fresh water(so fresh that a bottling company tried to buy the water rights to one of the springs) Crabbers pot crabs all around the springs. Lake George in central Fl. is fresh water also and there is a commercial crab fishery there.
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Very cool.
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Isn't Lake Mattamuskeet in NC a freshwater lake. Something makes the crabs keep growing there so I can't see why it couldn't happen elsewhere.
http://www.mattamuskeet.org/recreation/crabbing.htm
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