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What should I do? I caught a tiny baby crawfish in a swimming pool!?

Should I keep him until he gets bigger? I mean he is so small and his shell isnt even colored yetand his claws aretiny if i release him he will mostlikely di. Do you think i should release him in a ditch or buy him some fish food such as alge waffers and get him a aquarium with rocks and pants to hid in? Any advice is needed and appreciated

Either would do! If you want to release him, believe me, he has as good a chance to make it in the ditch as he would otherwise. In nature, they are on their own from the moment they leave mom’s “swimmerettes” under her tail. These are not social animals.

If you want to keep him, that can work too as long as he hasn’t gotten too much chlorine in the pool. If you aren’t putting anything else in the container, scoop up some mud from the ditch with some grass in it. They are scavengers and will eat anything. If you want to feed him algae wafers, fine. But you can feed him pretty much anything you would put in your compost pile except for dried leaves. They also eat paper and other kinds of garbage, but you won’t want to foul your tank. Dig him a little trench and fill it up with a couple of inches of water. Throw in a couple of grains of sea salt or aquarium salt and you are good to go. THEY CAN CLIMB ANYTHING including glass. Make sure you put a top in it!

In Louisiana, they live in the swamp and scavenge on the bottom. They are incredibly hardy creatures and are interesting pets just as fish are. You may not have luck keeping one from the Seafood Market (you can check out my previous answer to that question), but if you catch one from the wild that’s the way to do it. That’s how we built the population for my brother’s “crawfish farm” for his science project. He came in second in the State Science Fair!

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