crayfish didnt make it home

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Looks like a good place for my first post.

I do think that the temp. raise was a big concern. You should also provide filtration for crayfish. I currently have four in a molting tank. They will be Oscar food when they molt. The guy that I got them from runs 15 kiddy pools and all have filters and about 6 footlong aeration stones. I think he estimated just over 1,000 crayfish in his possesion at this time. But they need to be placed in a stable temp. asap in order to survive. Hope that this helps

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Its only a 5 min. drive for me but I will talk to the guy that I get them from tommorow and let you know how he gets them home after a catch he drives about 2 hours.
 
Its definately not water temp, ive pulled crays from freezing water and dropped them in my tanks and they are not effected

i say stress, one time i took a full grown cray out of my tank, he was killing too many of my fish, clipped off one half of his large pincher with a sizzors, dropped him back in the tank, he rolled up in a ball on the way to the bottom of the tank and layed there, i thought he was playing dead, came back like an hour later and he was still in the ball, dead fur real.

Have done this too numerous rogue crays, i like them to scavange on the bottom and clean up after my piranha, have also had some die during molting, i think they are cool little critters

they are escape artists, be sure your tank is sealed up, they will surprise you
 
From what I was told today this is what you do, leave the crayfish in the pond, river, swamp wherever you get them from until you are ready to go home, then place them in a cooler with a little bit of water and a block of ice, the ice will give them oxygen as it melts. Then take them straight home and place in tank immedialty. He said that out of the around 1,000 crayfish he had only about 5 died during the trip. Hope this helps
 
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