My crayfish
I know a lot about crayfish, but what happened to me was insane. When I was in fifth grade I loved crayfish. To me they were very interesting. The day before the raffle we bought everything we need. So when it was time to raffle them off… I won because I took care of them and not everyone wanted one. Then I brought my crayfish home and put it in the tank. I showed everybody and picked him up a couple times. After a couple days he did a suicide mission down the stairs, and we could not find him for hours. We found him alive in a corner. When we put him in the tank he was floating dead. We buried him. After that we went over to PetCo and got a ten gallon tank, two crayfish, and a statue. Probably before or after PetCo we went to Dollar Tree we got rocks for the tank. Then we put all the stuff in including the water. We put the crayfish in the tank while they were still in the bag. After about an hour or two me and my dad opened the bag and let them free. I fed them shrimp pellets, which they ate. The next time we went to PetCo I made friends with the guy who took care of the fish. He called me crayfish kid. So while I was in there I got a third crayfish. Once I got home I put them in the tank. My friend got two crayfish and since my third crayfish got attacked twice because he was small my friend traded with me. After a while they started to molt and I told my teacher about everything that happened to them. (She was so interested). It was Thanks giving morning, and I went to check on my crayfish and… my big crayfish chopped one of my other crayfish’s claws off and he ate it. Also someone molted. Since the tank got so filthy I had to buy a filter. I also bought a background, a cover, a light and a scrubber for the tank (a while ago I found a net in the garbage for my frog, but I decided to share it with my crayfish). The filter really worked. Also me and my cousin put a Lego man in the tank and see if the crayfish would catch it, and he caught it. Later on my crayfish molted which was an awesome sight? It was Christmas Eve and I got my brother a crayfish and me a crayfish and guppies which I asked for ten but I got twenty. When I gave him the crayfish he loved it. Then my brothers died and we got him three new ones and guppies also I got myself a suckerfish and my Dad got him a sucker fish too. My Dad said “he would buy me another crayfish”. Then we went to a different Petco store where I bought feeder fish. When I got home I tried to open my fish that were in a plastic bag that was filled with only water. My goal was to put them in a bucket because my tank was so dirty. When I opened the bag… half the fish fell on the floor! And the other half went into the bucket thank God. Finally we put the feeder fish in the tank one was dead, and also the crayfish ate the feeder fish. When I came back from school I found my sucker fish in my crayfish’s mouth. Then I saw him in a different crayfish’s mouth. Then the sucker fish back in the first crayfish’s mouth. I was so disappointed. Then I called my friend who gave me the mutant crayfish I told him exactly what happened to my poor little suckerfish. Now my Dad got me a fifth crayfish and a sucker fish. When I got home I put them in the tank in there bag so they adjust to the water. After that I put the crayfish and suckerfish in the tank. One of my crayfish molted again. So then I noticed that my suckerfish was behind the filter while my crayfish was on the filter upside down, and on the side trying to catch the suckerfish. I was calling petland discounts see if they have a blue crayfish and they did, but they said he just molted. So we went and we saw a blue crayfish with no walking legs on one side, and we saw the blue crayfish that just molted. He was small, and since he just molted he was soft. Then I saw a white crayfish that was big and looked awesome. So I bought it. We also bought more feeder fish and two rocks and a long and flat rock to make a tunnel. I took out the statue. The white crayfish looked so cool in the tank. My cousin videotaped all of the crayfish fighting. I also gave my brother one crayfish that was missing a claw. Since my tank was so small I bought a... 29 gallon tank. Inside the package it came with everything I need. Plus I had to buy gravel, shrimp pellets and feederfish. An awesome part was my friend came with me. After that I went home to set it up. The next day it was cloudy. We kept calling petco for answers. When I woke up for baseball one Sunday I saw the crayfish fighting. The crayfish ripped off the molt and almost killed him. Plus they ate a lot of fish. Since the 29 gallon tank smells we went to petco to get trees and stuff to make the tank not smell. I kept telling my dad "the tank is getting less cloudy!" We bought a chemical that is used to make the tank less cloudy. One night I saw that my white crayfish got eaten. I was so sad. We then bought a new tunnel, tree, and put the crayfish in a five gallon tank, while the tank clears up. We cleaned the tank twice, but the second time we took out the tunnel. The tank is getting better and better. We also got two new air pumps. We finally put the crayfish in. They fought just a couple of times. Also two of my crayfish molted on two different dates. I think they look awesome. I also bought a climbing thing for the crayfish to climb. Then the other day my dad bought me a blue crayfish instead of a white. He is huge but, never moves. I don’t know why. The other day my blue crayfish started to move, and he molted. He got so much bigger. The crayfish my friend gave me never fully molted. My blue crayfish lost his leg, but he is still roaming the tank. This year for school we had to do a science fair so I decided to conduct an experiment to see the effect of crayfish feeding habits in light or dark. It is so cool. During the time of the experiment one of my crayfish died. The one my friend gave me that never molted. So when the experiment was over I took one crayfish. My Dad took one for work. The one I took had spots on his body. The two crayfish were my brothers, but he gave it to us. He then bought his own...fish one has huge eyes the other has a bump thing on his head. They look awesome. The crayfish that my brother gave me went under the habitat, and kept putting gravel in her mouth, and dumped it outside of the habitat making a wall. She was digging a hole inside the habitat. I think she might be having babies. Also my blue crayfish molted. He is huge! My girl crayfish has eggs! She probably has more than one hundred eggs! Then I had to put her in a separate tank so the other crayfish would not eat her. She is so cool. I am going to give some of the crayfish to my friends, cousins, family, and I will donate some when the eggs hatch. Sadly a couple days later the eggs were gone we think the mother ate them because they are not in the tank. Around one months later my grandmas neighbor said since he owned a certain kind of pet he got crayfish 40% off so my dad said he would pay the money for an orange, and a white crayfish! After like three days it came! They were so cool. I had to give away two crayfish so I gave my dads friend one crayfish, and I gave the other to my younger brother. About a month or two later big blue ate the one that had babies the white and the orange. Ive been working so hard to keep other crayfish alive but big blue keeps killing them .Lately I've been brave enough to hold him. which is so freaky. The other day I came in my room and something almost pinched me! I looked down and big blue was there all dried up! So, I put him back in his tank. Lately I've been calling stores all over the country, just to find crayfish, but I just can't find the right one. Big blue is now the only one left in my tank! I was so excited that I got a forty gallon tank for my birthday! A couple of days later I bought a new decoration in the tank that also it blows out bubbles . Also since big blue is not used to his new tank, I have to hand feed him. When I say hand feed him, I mean I catch a fish with my small net and plop it against his cave. He would then use his powerful claws to catch the fish and eat him. I noticed that he does not want the fish so he goes for the net because its a larger pray. Also I want to buy a orange crayfish to be his friend. My blue crayfish(Big blue) just molted. He is so much larger. His claws got really big. Big blue is also a lot longer and his width is much larger. Big blue has gotten much more active and has been sliding all around the tank trying to catch the fish that are swimming around the tank. also I want to buy a orange crayfish but it has to be as big as Big Blue or even bigger! I went into my room and saw big blue has hundreds of eggs so he's a she. The next day my 9 inch crayfish died. So I'm now getting more crayfish. I'm gonna go to the store with my grandmas neighbor. I'm gonna an orange, white, and a blue crayfish.
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