Do crawfish need to breathe?

Chef's answer
Crayfish, also known as crawfish or crawdads, live in fresh water and breathe with gills. Crayfish have gills for breathing underwater, but can also breathe air. The crayfish will molt, shed its exoskeleton. During the few hours after the molt, the crayfish has a soft exoskeleton and is vulnerable to predators.
Frequently asked Questions 🎓
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Crayfish will drown if they are kept in water that is significantly over their head for 3-6 hours without supplemental oxygenation. This makes air bubblers mandatory, and long bubble walls are the best. Filter oxygenation is not enough, because filters fail way more often than air pumps..
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Crawfish, crayfish, and crawdads are the same animal. Which term you use may depend much on where you live. Louisianans most often say crawfish, whereas Northerners are more likely to say crayfish. People from the West Coast or Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas often use the term crawdad..
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A little known fact about crayfish is that they can produce sound in and out of the water. Crayfish produce sounds through their scaphognathite, which is a thin appendage that draws water through the gill cavity. They move the scaphognathite and produce sound and air bubbles.
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To boil: Keep the cray in salted boiling water for about 10-12 minutes or until their shells turn a bright orange colour. Put in cold water immediately afterwards to arrest the cooking process. To grill: Cut the cray in half lengthwise, baste with a delicate marinade and grill flesh-side up until flesh turns opaque..
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Procedure: chilling in air
  • Place the crustaceans in a freezer. Regularly check them for signs of insensibility (see 'Signs of insensibility'). ...
  • Once the crustaceans are showing signs of insensibility, mechanically kill them as soon as possible to ensure that they do not recover.
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    Larger crawfish stressed by low dissolved oxygen climb to the surface on vegetation or traps and expose their gills to higher oxygen levels at the surface (Figure 5). ... When oxygen levels become critically low, crawfish attempt to access the water surface, or may even leave the pond.
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