He's only molted one time since we've had him. I wanted to leave him in case he's taking a while but at what point do I give up?I'm thinking he's dead. It is on its side though, so I think molting. If he doesn’t respond to light or being poked he’s gone. He was a baby so we kept him in a 5 1/2 gallon by himself,he had plenty of room. JavaScript is disabled. Yesterday when I got home from work, I went to check on them and I noticed one on its back not moving. Continue browsing in r/Crayfish r/Crayfish A subreddit for lovers of crayfish (a.k.a. I think he could he be 3 to 5 years old. Is he molting? However, he didn’t bulge for hours and to my horror he was actually dead :(New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castA subreddit for lovers of crayfish (a.k.a. crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs) to ask questions or post advice on caring for them as aquarium pets, share pictures of their crayfish, or discuss anything else related to crayfish!Press J to jump to the feed.

I feel terrible that I stressed him out :(Oh btw he doesn't smell dead, it doesn't look like any rot or anything. Also what were you feeding? I know this gets asked a lot and I've searched for answers in this forum. There are molts EVERYWHERE throughout the tank. I have a dwarf Mexican crawfish (was labeled orange lobster when I got him) that we've had a couple years. I know you said they always hide, but make sure they have enough hiding spots anyway, since they are super vulnerable when they're molting. He has molted before. One of the biggest crayfish, about 2.5 inches long, started molting. As with all crustaceans, a crawfish must molt or shed its hard external shell (“exoskeleton”) to increase in size (Figure 4); hence, the growth process involves periodic molting interspersed with inter-molt periods.

Check if the whiskers are moving first, then check if it reacts if you touch it. I know that some crabs are said to have a "terminal molt" and can only molt so many times before death, but cannot find any reference to this with crayfish.

Molting or dead? The crayfish does make it out of the front half of its old exoskeletonbut not out of the part covering the abdomen. Give him a day or two to see if he comes out of the skin/shell. Good luck!

I picture you giving him mouth to mouth lol. Thread starter #4 mandelyn Crowing. Login to reply the answers. Is my crayfish molting or dead?!? There's a crayfish in my 10 gallon aquiriam. Crayfish - Crawfish Blue crayfish (lobster) died after molting : ... We noticed him start to act strange,so I researched and I figured he was going to molt. ... look pretty much exactly like a crayfish, so be sure to look around the tank a bit if you think your crayfish is in fact, dead...you might have just located his skin, and he may be hiding somewhere. just easier on everyone. I left to go get dinner and when I came back he was dead and the other 4 crawfish were eating them. But if there was to much, it could also mess it up.Hello kind friend, thank you for the advice. I have 5 new river crayfish in a 10 gallon tank with tons of meticulously placed river rocks to make more than enough hiding places. My guess is it maybe molting, that can take several hours to a day or so. He's about 6 inches.We've recently gotten a much larger tank (cycled and all that) with sand and he loved it was digging and eating and then I noticed he stopped eating and was getting translucent and I moved him into a seperate aquarium because we got new fish and they were picking on him.He was doing fine in his seperate house, was moving around and climbing on his plants.

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