crayfish escapist

[svetlana]

Hi guys!
I wanted to ask those who had a crayfish.
I bought one a couple of weeks ago. And it lives in 10g open tank together with 3 smartest rosy reds.
Tonight i heard my cat, Pushkin, howling and scraping frantically but he does it soemtimes so i continued sleeping. In the morning i found the crayfish laying beside my bed with cat looking down at him wistfully. I plopped the guy into the tank (which is located in a nextdoor bedroom ) promptly and he immediately displayed his pincers to me and retreated angrily into his favorite hiding hole under the java fern.
My question is - is it common for the crayfish to venture outside the tank? Or rather, what do you think happened? How he went out? The water level is about 1" below the tank's edge.

Thanks!

--svetlana

[Lotus]

Yes, it's very common for them to crawl out of a tank. Maybe he climbed up the filter or something else.

[Seleya]

LOL, from the sounds of things, maybe he climbed out on the CAT!

[svetlana]

I have to get cover for the tank then: i do not want him to dry out one day.
Hope he'll be fine after his journey. Thanks that my cat is such a coward and did not injure him.

Thanks!