Ordering
Ordering
I no longer offer Marbled Crayfish for sale as of 7/7/24 due to complications from divorce. All things must end.
Consulting, Presentations, and Advisory Work
That doesn't mean I can't still be helpful. This site was the first place marbled crayfish were documented for a general audience, and that early work led directly to contact with genetics and biology departments at Harvard and several other major universities studying parthenogenesis and cloning. Later, high school biology teachers began reaching out for classroom specimens and guidance of their own. I didn't set out to become a resource for either group — but the association between my name and this animal followed from simply having opened the door first, and I've come to see that as a responsibility worth honoring.
With that in mind, I'm open to helping in whatever form is genuinely useful: a Zoom presentation for a classroom, an in-person visit or talk, ongoing advisory work for a university lab setting up its own research colony, or something else entirely that a school or department has in mind. This applies equally to universities, and to K–12 schools, public or private.
If you think there's a way I could help, email me directly and propose a time for a Zoom conversation — I'd like to talk through the idea with you rather than guess at it from a distance.
For reference, here's how ordering worked when we were offering crayfish: sales were limited to the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas area, with exceptions for university study or aquaponics use elsewhere in the USA. We never shipped, and never would have shipped, livestock outside the USA. This was never a commercial operation — just a hobbyist with some original stock and a bit of insight.
Why shipping was limited
These are live animals, which require overnight shipping, not standard 2–3 day service. Shipments went out from zip code 75028 in a 7×7×6 box weighing just under 2 pounds.
Texas weather made this harder than it sounds — boxes sit on warehouse shelves and in trucks with no temperature regulation, and live crustaceans don't tolerate 120-degree heat or freezing cold well. We also learned the hard way that the "bag heaters" used to ship some fish will effectively boil crustaceans, so those were never an option here.
Check your local laws
Some states restrict the importation of marbled crayfish under wildlife regulations. It's worth checking whether that applies where you live before acquiring any. In Texas, that list is maintained by Texas Parks & Wildlife: