What do YOU call tiny river lobsters?

[tripletfeb]

Interesting. I never knew that

 

[ShrekDawg]

 

[ColtHandorf]

Interesting. I never knew that

My friend's mom can't have iodized salt. It can unalive her.

 

[Windrider]

As kids we called them crawdads, but as adults it is crayfish. But this is So Cal, where everyone is from everywhere else. I'm a rare fourth generation Angeleno, but further back we are from Ohio. The map is odd, since we do have these guys in our canals and streams and I don't know why people wouldn't have a word for them.

We also have the real thing, spiny lobsters, which in slang are often called "bugs" (as in going on a nighttime "bug hunt"). Look at this beauty we pulled up opening day (and then smuggled and released into the wildlife sanctuary, because she was too big a breeder to release where others could catch her).

They aren't lobsters. They are crayfish that inherited the recessive blue gene. I have some in my ditch in the front yard that are blue. The Tangerine and Vanilla lobsters at Petco are also not lobsters.

Having worked for years in the aquarium industry, I can say that there are definitely blue lobsters that are not crayfish and are kept in salt water aquariums. I doubt a place like Petco would have them, though.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Apparently shellfish is high in iodine.

True Dat. Shellfish are high in iodine. In the hospital, if your allergic to shellfish we have to assume an iodine allergy. This comes in when getting radiological test where the Dye is iodine based. They are getting better and you can usually be pre treated with steroids and benadryl.

 

[ColtHandorf]

As kids we called them crawdads, but as adults it is crayfish. But this is So Cal, where everyone is from everywhere else. I'm a rare fourth generation Angeleno, but further back we are from Ohio. The map is odd, since we do have these guys in our canals and streams and I don't know why people wouldn't have a word for them.

We also have the real thing, spiny lobsters, which in slang are often called "bugs" (as in going on a nighttime "bug hunt"). Look at this beauty we pulled up opening day (and then smuggled and released into the wildlife sanctuary, because she was too big a breeder to release where others could catch her).

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Having worked for years in the aquarium industry, I can say that there are definitely blue lobsters that are not crayfish and are kept in salt water aquariums. I doubt a place like Petco would have them, though.

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Yes, there are lobsters that exist in fresh and saltwater. My point was that the ones Dawg sees at the pet store aren't them. I've handled many species of freshwater and marine invertebrates.

 

[Windrider]

Yes, there are lobsters that exist in fresh and saltwater. My point was that the ones Dawg sees at the pet store aren't them. I've handled many species of freshwater and marine invertebrates.

I know that's what you meant. Especially since they were talking about Petco. But if people have a real aquarium store around, they can still see saltwater blue spiny lobsters for sale. I used to see them all the time on the reefs in the south pacific on night dives.

I am not aware of any lobster species that can exist in either salt or fresh water; a brackish species perhaps? I know there are some shrimp that can.

 

[tripletfeb]

My friend's mom can't have iodized salt. It can unalive her.

Interesting. Wonder how she prevents that, considering it's in practically everything

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

My friend's mom can't have iodized salt. It can unalive her.

Being unalived is no good.

Which brings up the question of iodine to mitigate radioactive exposure. We have nuclear power plants here, so they give put iodine pills to schools as a safety measure. I've never thought about what they would do for the people who can't have iodine

 

[ShrekDawg]

Being unalived is no good.

Which brings up the question of iodine to mitigate radioactive exposure. We have nuclear power plants here, so they give put iodine pills to schools as a safety measure. I've never thought about what they would do for the people who can't have iodine

We have a power plant near us but they never gave us any pills. idk if ours is radioactive though.