My blue cray got out today. Not sure what time, but when I was here this morning...she was still in the aquarium...came home around 1400hrs. and could not find her. I thought she was just hiding. Around 1800hrs. I decided to open the tank and look at every decor...GONE!!! Looked around the house under, over, inside things...NOTHING! I thought she would have been dead by now.
Fast forward to 5 minutes ago (2200hrs.)...found her in the MIDDLE of my bedroom floor. I checked there before buy did not find it.
Our theory...our cat Harley probably dragged her all ove the place. She has a blue mouse that she loves...she loves anything blue.
I poked the "dead" cray and her tail snapped. I quickly took a one liter margarine container...filled it with enough water to cover her not quite half way. She is now re-hydrating and I am "rinsing" her with a turkey baster so her eyes won't dry (not sure if that is right though).
Any other advice(s) is/are welcomed.
How long should she be in there? when can i put her back?
Js
Cray emergency
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Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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You'd be surprised how far they can crawl. Did you dechlorinate the water? I would put her back now. She should be fine.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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I had the same thing happen to my blue cray, he escaped a lidded aquarium (only opening was just big enough for the power filter), My wife found it down the stairs, in the entrance(think the cat helped him get there)..At first we thought the cats got a hold of one of his moltings, until it moved.. he was a little stunned and lost one of his longer antenna in the incident, but I think he must have dried out too much...he was never quite right after...lost his equilibrium and generally seemed less intelligent..he died a week or so later...I hope you have better luck with yours
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Almost every cray or fiddler I've tried to keep as a pet (don't last long as food), has escaped & usually been found at the other end of the house.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Basically what your doing is fine, in a bit put him back in the aquarium. These guys are amazingly hardy when it comes to happenings like this. He will probably molt a few times, normal because of stress. Just watch him VERY carefully and make sure he has places to hide out 
. I bet he'll bounce back just fine.
Keep us updated.
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. I bet he'll bounce back just fine.Keep us updated.
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oops she
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