Egg omelette

[Hejzan]

Well......last night I whipped up an all you can eat omelette for the crays.
Eggs are a very good source of high quality protein. The best food for bodybuilding.
With the shell, you have a great source of calcium, not to mention all the vitamins & minerals the yolk contains.

Put an egg (Shell & all) into a blender. Added in some mixed veg, (Corn, Carrot, Peas).
I put to many veg in & it was to dry so I added another egg.......
Blended into a smooth paste. Cooked in a small pot without any oil.

It stuck to the bottom so I had to scrape chunks out.......lol

Dropped one or more chunks into the tanks. Each piece was about as big as the end of your thumb.
A little squeeze was needed to take out air bubbles & make it sink.

I put in large chunks as I thought it would be easier to remove if they didn't like it.....

Redclaw, Destructor, Bicarinatus & Marron absolutely demolished it!!! Very little left.
I was surprised as they were pretty big pieces!

The Marron grabbed it & didn't let it go!!! She was running around for about an hr with it....
The White Claws wrestled the big pieces back to their hides & commenced feeding......same with the Redclaws.
I didn't see Big Daddy eating his but it was all gone by morning!

Only ones that didn't eat much or any were the Murrays.....
I removed any left overs from the tanks this morning.

Credits for this recipe goes to Yabbadoo from crayfishmates

I baked up this recipe a few times and the redclaws loves it.
Egg yolk also contains lecithin which helps prevents EED

I also read somewhere the cray could get increased growth on about 5% with 6% lecithin in its diet.

Exuvia Entrapment Disease (EED)
EED affects Stage XI larvae and early post-larvae. Infected larvae are unable to extricate themselves
from their exuvia during moulting. The larvae generally have malformed appendages. Mortality
usually ranges from 20-30 per cent.
It is believed that nutritional deficiencies are the principal cause of EED. For example, larvae of
other shrimp species (Paleomon) experienced EED when fed Artemia nauplii from the Great Salt
Lake, Utah, USA, whereas nauplii from the San Francisco Bay did not produce EED. Adding
lecithin to the prepared feed may help to prevent, or reduce, EED

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/006/ad530e/ad530e05.pdf

[Ulli Bauer]

Sounds yummy!
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Ulli

[Palinurus]

Hi

I am sure, the proteines are good, but I wouldn't take the yolk, because it contains too much fat.

Cheers
Wolfgang

[Ulli Bauer]

Cholesterol is beneficial for ecdysis (molt) in shrimp, so it's maybe not a bad idea...
Of course, you have to be very careful not to overfeed.

Cheers
Ulli

[Ulli Bauer]

Now I know why.
Shrimp need cholesterol for forming the hormone responsible for molting, and they cannot produce it themselves.
EDIT: The same applies to crayfish, of course.

Cheers
Ulli