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The claw tip has definitely been getting paler over the past few weeks. I thought perhaps it was getting demineralized somehow because in all the photos I've seen of crayfish with shell rot/rust spot disease they had discoloration that's brown and this is definitely not that.

Thanks for the quick response! So you're thinking this is basically "shell rot"? From what I read it's hard for them to recover from that, right?

I have a Red Swamp Crayfish that I recently rescued from a crawfish boil (one of its claws was torn off when I got it). Recently, I noticed the tip of the remaining claw has become pale and today I noticed some was broken off. The pH has been steady at around 7.4-7.6, ammonia and nitrites are 0...