Bad Molt? What is that?

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I bought some crawdads from my LFS last week and the first one to molt had this weird white blotch and all around it the carapace is wrinkled. What is it? :nilly:

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There are also some feathery looking things being pushed out between the tail and body, but they are not swimmeretes. I assume this will ge better by the next molt. I have seen molts that have worms all over the carapace from low water quality.
 
Ok....here's the go.....

They are the crays gills that have somehow formed on the outside of it's body.
If you keep it safe from other crays/fish etc.....and it goes unharmed, it will continue to live and correct the fault as it grows/moults......

Freaked me out anyway......lol
 
wow, never seen that befor. hope he stays safe till next moult
 
at first glance it look fungal, but man was i way off! i would have never guessed that was its gill!
 
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