crayfish escapist

svetlana

Large Fish
Feb 16, 2005
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Gaithersburg, MD
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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