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Crawfish emergency!
Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:10 pm
Was planning on having a big boil on Saturday (out of state). Weather pretty much forced me to move it to Sunday. I have 100+ pounds of crawfish coming Saturday morning. What's the best way to keep these guys alive for 24 hours?
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Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:16 pm to tigerdmb
Not an emergency. Don't panic.
Keep them in the shade and hose them down every few hours. If you are worried about it, throw them in an ice chest with the plug open. I've done this for years. Never had any issues.
Keep them in the shade and hose them down every few hours. If you are worried about it, throw them in an ice chest with the plug open. I've done this for years. Never had any issues.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:19 pm to tigerdmb
Are they coming shipped and covered with ice? Ask the place where you're buying them from what you should do. What I have done, and just did last weekend with a 42# sack that I drove to Orlando and kept the fish alive for 48 hours.
Ice chest with paper or something to keep crawfish off the bottom and out of any water from melting ice, I actually used frozen two liters of water, crawfish sack covered with damp newspaper or damp towels, bags of ice on top, covered with more damp newspaper and or damp towels. Allow the crawfish to breathe and do not close lid on ice chest. Keep the sacks tight and turn them every six hours and before you sleep and when you wake. When turning, mist with water or pour room temp water over them, just enough to give them a sip and rotate sack from top to bottom every time you mist them. I've read where people have done this in the grass, under a tree with burlap sacks, but the trunk of my wife car had to do for a road trip. Got some looks at the Busy Bee gas station in FL as I gave a sack of crawfish a Dasani water break!
Ice chest with paper or something to keep crawfish off the bottom and out of any water from melting ice, I actually used frozen two liters of water, crawfish sack covered with damp newspaper or damp towels, bags of ice on top, covered with more damp newspaper and or damp towels. Allow the crawfish to breathe and do not close lid on ice chest. Keep the sacks tight and turn them every six hours and before you sleep and when you wake. When turning, mist with water or pour room temp water over them, just enough to give them a sip and rotate sack from top to bottom every time you mist them. I've read where people have done this in the grass, under a tree with burlap sacks, but the trunk of my wife car had to do for a road trip. Got some looks at the Busy Bee gas station in FL as I gave a sack of crawfish a Dasani water break!
Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:24 pm to tigerdmb
ice, shade, dont drown them
24hrs should be no problem
24hrs should be no problem
Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:27 pm to jmon
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Allow the crawfish to breathe and do not close lid on ice chest
Key if keeping them in ice chest over 12 hrs. As long as they are cold and have air, i.e. not in sack covered in water, then they are good to go for a couple of days
This post was edited on 3/9/17 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 3/9/17 at 3:33 pm to gmrkr5
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ice, shade, dont drown them
24hrs should be no problem
And keep ants off them.
I keep crawfish for 24 hours all the time.
Posted on 3/11/17 at 2:09 pm to tigerdmb
Great advice guys. Much appreciated for saving my boil!!
Couple of questions...
1. It's getting down to the 20-30's overnight where I live. Is that too cold for them? Should I skip the ice? My garage will usually stay about 60's, so should l keep them there with or without ice?
2. Would you pour the ice over the wet cloths sitting on the sacks, or keep the ice in the bags and lay them on top?
3. It seems that the consensus is to keep them in the sacks right?
Couple of questions...
1. It's getting down to the 20-30's overnight where I live. Is that too cold for them? Should I skip the ice? My garage will usually stay about 60's, so should l keep them there with or without ice?
2. Would you pour the ice over the wet cloths sitting on the sacks, or keep the ice in the bags and lay them on top?
3. It seems that the consensus is to keep them in the sacks right?
Posted on 3/11/17 at 2:25 pm to tigerdmb
46 degrees is the storage temp LSU Ag Center suggest.
Posted on 3/11/17 at 4:08 pm to tigerdmb
It's not an emergency. Keep them wet, in the sack.
This post was edited on 3/11/17 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 3/12/17 at 8:52 am to tigerdmb
quote:
It's getting down to the 20-30's overnight where I live. Is that too cold for them
yes.
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Would you pour the ice over the wet cloths sitting on the sacks, or keep the ice in the bags and lay them on top?
Lay sacks together, dump ice on top. cover with a burlap sack or a blanket. Maybe keep in your garage.
quote:
. It seems that the consensus is to keep them in the sacks right?
yes
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