What a monumental day at our house. Well, maybe not "monumental" but certainly a development! We've had our little crawdad for some time now and I've been painstakingly changing his water and making sure he's got food all along. That little critter can sure make his water cloudy pretty quickly! Anyway, I looked in tonight and saw that he was dead...the top (head) part of his shell was pulling away from his tail and he wasn't moving. I broke the news to the boys but was a bit relieved because of the upcoming Disney trip. I didn't really want to set him free but thought we'd have to.
I set out to clean out the tank and started pouring the water down the sink. I saw something flipping around out of the corner of my eye at one end of the tank and realized it was our crawdad! Apparently he'd only molted out of his shell and was alive and well! I didn't even know crawdads did that! So...I finished cleaning the tank and put him back into his newly cleaned home. I guess we do have a way with this critter at least. Nothing like the tadpoles we tried desperately to grow into frogs last summer! I think we went through at least 3 sets of them only to have each of them die after sprouting legs.
So, we'll keep Mr. Crawdad (original right?!?) and hope for him to survive our vacation. The Peavlers will take good care of him I'm sure while they're looking over the house and pool for us.
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