well I now know with certainty that crayfish are escape artists

i rearranged the tankscape to add some new caves and overhangs set some more plastic plants and everything went just fine 8) everyone was happy and i was deciding an what fish would finish off the look of my tank got up the next morning and stopped by my tank to say "hi" no Dud-a-chum (the crayfish)

since i had some crabs years ago that were escape artist too i was prepared for the search at hand

but i have cats

so i was not optimistic

but after a couple of hours in search i found my critter

but he only has half the length of his antennae left and doesn't seem to be happy about it at all

i hope it was a lesson he'll remember but i doubt it i rearranged the caves and such and reworked my plants by attaching them to the stones that make up the caves

i figure that Dud-a-chum shimmied up the return tube for the filter using the plants that i thought would hide it i know better now anyone with clawed critters should be warned have fun Lee