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[casportpony]

We get crawdads here. We suck the heads and squish em.

I'm ashamed to say that I haven't ever tried them

, but I know I will love them when I finally do, and i will eat all edible parts!

-Kathy

 

[perchie.girl]

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I keep trying them but so far not impressed.... Its not the Crawdads fault its the fact that they are precooked prepackaged and left Louisiana a very long time ago.

If you are enterprising you can catch them in just about any running stream. Just need a string and a piece of bacon... or something like a little lobster trap I suppose. I have only seen people use the bacon. pretty funny the little buggers will be dukeing it out trying to fight each other off the bacon..... as you haul them out to put them in the bucket....

but as all us Californians know most of the streams are polluted.... I caught my five for my son to have in his Vivarium.... Did you know they need to get out of the water occasionally?

deb

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I keep trying them but so far not impressed.... Its not the Crawdads fault its the fact that they are precooked prepackaged and left Louisiana a very long time ago.

If you are enterprising you can catch them in just about any running stream. Just need a string and a piece of bacon... or something like a little lobster trap I suppose. I have only seen people use the bacon. pretty funny the little buggers will be dukeing it out trying to fight each other off the bacon..... as you haul them out to put them in the bucket....

but as all us Californians know most of the streams are polluted.... I caught my five for my son to have in his Vivarium.... Did you know they need to get out of the water occasionally?

deb

Yes they breathe air.
A couple seafood markets here get huge mesh bags of live crawfish. I buy a whole bag at Mardi Gras and have a boil and party.

Did you know they'll kill and eat animals much larger than them? I didn't My son had an aquatic terrarium with a basilisk in it. I mistakenly thought a couple crawfish would be a good addition. They pulled the basilisk under, drown it and started eating it.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Makes sense..... they would be opportunistic eaters. I used to feed them frozen fish chopped up bite sized.... and fish flakes... I have Raised up Red eared sliders, Frogs, Snakes and Crawfish in Single species habitats....

the Turtle aquarium setup was in a 60 gallon tank..... built up with shale for sunning spots for the turtles. Got them as hatchlings about the size of a silver dollar. Read up on them and did the Calcium load on Baby crickets then found that Ghost shrimp provided almost all the nutritional value they needed... in live food. Of course they also got a balanced turtle ration. Cute little buggers chasing down the shrimp and the occasional guppy. once they got to the size of a saucer though they had to go because I couldnt keep the water clean enough.... So i built them an outdoor pond about six feet by six feet with cinder blocks and a pond liner. sTocked it with gold fish to keep down the water bugs.... By the time they get that big they are pretty much vegitarians. then someone stole them out of the pond.

Any wild caught critters were kept for a while to enjoy then returned to the same habitat where they were collected.

deb

 

[1kluckychik]

Yes they breathe air.
A couple seafood markets here get huge mesh bags of live crawfish. I buy a whole bag at Mardi Gras and have a boil and party.

Did you know they'll kill and eat animals much larger than them? I didn't My son had an aquatic terrarium with a basilisk in it. I mistakenly thought a couple crawfish would be a good addition. They pulled the basilisk under, drown it and started eating it.

Do you squish and suck the heads?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: One is supposed to, right?

-Kathy

 

[1kluckychik]

One is supposed to, right?

-Kathy

We do.

 

[Alaskan]

Dang deb... People stealing yoir turtle pets...people are just mean.



I wonder if they sold them or ate them.

 

[drumstick diva]

with that alarming thought in mind, I am shuffling off to bed I'll finish my ice cream tomorrow.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah... Turtle ice cream is a nightmarish thought.