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Crayfish

Crayfish (also called crawfish or crawdads) are freshwater crustaceans that look like a small lobster. Crayfish feed on plants, frog eggs, insects, and small fish. Crawfish boils and dishes with crayfish in them are very common in Louisiana. Louisiana supplies about 95% of the crayfish harvested in the US.

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How do appendages of frogs differ from crayfish?

For starters, it's crawfish. I'm from the south. That's how we spell/say "crayfish". Anyway, crawfish and lobster are very different! Crawfish do not live in the sea like lobster. Crawfish have a nickname. Which is, the mud bug. They live in muddy water. Possibly swamps. Lobster are ALWAYS bigger. Crawfish have less meat on them. But they tend to be put in spicy spices when doing a crawfish boil or party.

Is crayfish an echinoderm?

No, echinoderms are the sea urchin and starfish family, lobsters are crustaceans.

How do you find captain crawfish on his island?

Captain Crawfish has a ship with the speed and cannons of a Phoenix Warbird. Attacking him with anything less has very, very little chance to succeed. His ship will repair itself as yours does (with the Shipwright).

When you have found and merged the 5 map pieces, and the new island Skullduggery appears, that is where Captain Crawfish is easily found. When you have a Phoenix Warbird, the Shipwright, and the Cannoneer, you are a match for him. He will not actually sink, but sail away when defeated.

(see related question)

*While it seems difficult at the start to imagine a million doubloons, each new, larger ship lets you earn more doubloons faster. Once you have 500,000, you can borrow another 500,000 from the bank and buy the Warbird. (You do not have to pay it back since you will already have the biggest ship.) The rest of the skilled crew are also easily affordable at this point, since the Phoenix Warbird generates a lot of doubloons with its massive cargo space.

Do crawfish lay eggs?

Yes they do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they Cary it under it's tail

I have one and it is BLUE

look at that one right there

Well........ here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cp0ChazpKc

Does a crayfish have a tail?

no, they have other mouth appendages though such as the 1st and 2nd maxillias, right behined the mandiable(jaw). Then the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd maxillpeds come after that. The maxillias and the maxillpeds hold the food in place and they sense taste and touch.

How did crayfish become endangered?

Because they are delicious!!

No seriously here is what I found:

"Crayfish are threatened by habitat destruction caused by dams, water pollution, erosion, siltation, in-stream gravel dredging and, particularly, the introduction of nonnative crayfishes and other exotics. About 65 species of crayfish are endangered, threatened, or listed as species of special concern by the states in which they live, and 48 percent of our native crayfish species are in need of protection. These numbers are best estimates only. The exact status of crayfish endangerment or extinction rates in the United States is largely unknown because very few distribution and population surveys have been completed. "

Here is a link to the site where I found this information:

http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/fisheries/420-524/420-524.html

How many babies do crayfish have?

They can have up to 15 babies at a time and can carry 30 in there tummy.


They are red poisonous spiders if you see one in your house kill it straight away.

What do crayfish look like and eat?

Crayfish look like small version of New England type of Lobsters. They live in fresh and brackish waters depending on the species. They will eat anything that is meaty, including worms, leaches, larvae or their specialty, sleeping fish.

Is the cray fish a fish?

Crayfish live in running freshwater - brooks and streams. They cannot tollerate polluted water.

There are different families of cray fish and they are found in South and North America, Madagascar, Western Eurasia, Asia, Australia.

Do crayfish make good pets?

it depends on the size of the fish and the tank. if the fish are to small the may fall prey to the crayfish, this problem can be avoided if you have a large tank but, most people would advise that you don't mix these two types of animals

I agree I caught one without claws and it is doing fine in my tropical tank but it is still small.

A crayfish isn't a good idea if you have small fish in the tank.

How do you raise crayfish?

Crayfish (or crawdads) live in aquariums.They can go extremely long periods of time without eating and they will eat gunk that is stuck to the bottom of the aquarium and live fish. Sometimes they will also eat fish food and shrimp pellets. if there are other fish living in the aquarium, make sure you cut of the crayfish's claws so they cannot catch the fish(it does not hurt them and the claws will grow back when they malt their exoskeleton). temperature and lighting do not really effect the crayfish so you don't have to worry about controling that. Every 3 to 12 months, a crayfish will malt its exoskeleton; leave the old exoskeleton in the aquarium for the crayfish to eat because this will help him grow a healthy one the next time. Crayfish like to have a rock or cave-like structure to shelter in.

Are crayfish insects?

Insects must have a head, thorax, and abdomen. They have three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings. The crayfish obviously doesn't have wings, (not sure about the other requirements) so it is not an insect.

What happens to digested nutrients in crayfish?

Food is handled and processed first by the mouthparts and then is crushed by the mandibles before being swallowed. It then makes its way through the three main regions of the digestive system. Any remaining material (not digested) is packaged into fecal pellets surrounding by a mucous membrane. Contractions of the midgut force the pellets along to the hindgut and into the enlarged rectum. Rapid rectal contractions push the pellets out the anus at the base of the tail.

How often do crayfish molt before they are considered an adult?

how often do crayfish molt before they are conitered an adult

Are crawfish fish?

No, they are not seafood! They are commonly mistaken as seafood but in reality they are a type of freshwater shellfish that are raised in freshwater ponds and can even be found in ditches that retain water, hence one of their nicknames of "mud bugs".

Do crayfish have spiracles?

No. The aquatic kind of spiracle (such as you'd find on rays and skates) could be located only on cartilaginous fish, or the most primitive of the bony fish. The loosest definition of spiracles seems to include a respiratory opening such as the blowhole in whales; lobsters do have ventral openings to the gills but these are anatomically dissimilar to those. (Also since lobsters are aquatic, they do not possess spiracles of the type you'd find on insects.)

How to care for a crayfish?

Tie up the lobster's claws and then hold its body with two hands. After that, crack it in half. The most humane way is to put the live Lobster into the deep freeze for about an hour before you want to cook it, this shuts down the Lobsters systems, it goes into a deep sleep, then drop it into lots of boiling water to cook it.

What kind of environment do crawdads live in?

They live in clear water with not a lot of space though, that bothers them. Crawdads want to be stuck in a tiny space because their dark color blends in with the things that it is squished between when something is chasing it. Now when you see pink things on its tail, that just means that is very healthy and that it is about to give birth!

Do crayfish live in the Chicago river?

Yes, according to some documentation I found online. There was a year, I want to say 2002 were there was lots of rain fall and crayfish were coming out of the river and into people's yards.

Where can you catch crayfish in runescape?

Quoting from runescape.wikia.com article "raw crayfish":

Small pond near Fred the Farmer's ranch

Behind Lumbridge church

West of the log balance to the Fremennik Province (members)

The tutor's lake in Taverley/Burthorpe (members)

What is the term for the crayfish's pincher's?

The term for the crayfish's pinchers is chelae. The chelae are two pincher-like claws that can be found on the front of the crayfish's body and are used for hunting, defense, and helping the crayfish to move. The chelae are connected to a series of muscles and tendons, which allow them to open and close. The chelae are also covered in sensory hairs that help the crayfish detect its environment. They can be used to grab and hold onto food, as well as helping the crayfish to climb and dig.