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SHIPPING SPECIALS: Pay Only $7.95 Shipping On Your ENTIRE Order! FREE Shipping on Orders Over $75! Limited Time: FREE Colorful Background with Kit Order Uncle Jones LIVE Pet Crawdad Kit Complete kit – has everything you need to keep this fascinating pet! Watch your LIVE pet crayfish play among the plants all day!  A wonderful way to teach children the responsibilities and fun of owning a pet. Have fun learning about Crawdads as you create their habitat and take care of them. This is great for kids of all ages; plus classrooms, science classes, offices and homes.  Your pet crayfish can live up to several years, providing you much entertainment during that time, as they have many interesting capabilities that make them unique. They tend to be shy little critters and prefer to live alone, thus even though 2 Crawdads will fit, you should only have 1 in your Habitat.  The Habitat is a large 7.75"H x 11.75"W x 8"D. It is a safe and healthy home for the Crawdad shipped directly to your home. Lids are an assortment of bright colors.  2 Choices: Receive your kit with a LIVE Crawdad NOW if you are ready for him  OR, receive your kit with a FREE certificate that must be mailed in to receive your Crawdad at a later date Order ANY time of year- a Fun Winter Project! Everything you need is included. Contains: large habitat, 1 LIVE Crawdad, live plant, food, plastic plant, crawdad critter cup, water treatment solution and easy instructions. Plus some fun experiments to do with your new pet in an easy to read brochure, as well as a full-page handout that will get you to know more about your crawdad, and the interesting capabilities this little crustacean has to offer!  $29.95 Kit with 1 LIVE Crawdad Sent NOW Sold Out $29.95 Kit with FREE Mail-In Certificate for 1 Crawdad Later Sold Out        1 Pet Crawdad with Food Only Ready for a new Pet Crawdad? Buy one here! Please note: Crawdads are very solitary animals and don’t even like other Crawdads close by. That’s why, even though 2 Crawdads will fit, you should only have 1 in your habitat. INCLUDES: 1 Live Crawdad, 1 Live Plant, Food and Water treatment solution. 1 LIVE Crawdad with Food sent NOW $7.45 Sold Out      Extra Crawdad Food Yum! Shrimp Pellets in a large 4.6 oz bottle provides an excellent source of nutrition for your crawdad. $4.95 Sold Out   Extra Live Plants Crawdads like both plants and protein to eat. They enjoy munching on plant leaves. The live plant is also important because it adds oxygen to the water and removes some waste. Sold as a bunch of 5 stems that are 6 to 8 inches tall. Note: The kit does come with 1 live plant; these 5 are for extras or replacements. $3.95   Coral Cave with Plants This awesome cave will be a great place for your crawdad to hide in and play on. Durable polyresin 5x4.5x4.5 size fits perfectly into your habitat. $8.95 Sold Out

Greetings! I am a Crawdad that comes from freshwater bodies of water around the world. I am very popular as there are over 500 species of my kind in this world, with 350 of those species living in North America! I have many other names such as Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdaddy, Yabbie, and Mudbug, and did you know I am very closely related to the Lobster? During the day I like to hide under rocks and vegetation, because I am a bit shy and like to be alone to myself, but at night watch me come alive and do all sorts of fascinating things!

Want to know what I can do? Get to know the super COOL parts of my Anatomy! 

1. Hard Exoskeleton
   - My body is made up of a tough, heavily mineralized exoskeleton that I use as a shield of armor, to protect myself against predators. Did you know that I shed my exoskeleton every time I want to grow bigger? I can even grow new limbs this way if I want to! However, I am a bit delicate after I molt, so please leave me alone to recover a few days when I do this! Did you also know that often I need a bit of extra calcium during this stage and I actually eat my exoskeleton to meet my nutritional requirements?
   - Did you know my exoskeleton can come in three different colors? …red, white and blue! Pretty patriotic don’t you think?!! My most common color is red, but some species are blue because of lacking a specific color gene in their DNA. The rarest color is white, resulting from a lack of pigmentation gene, which is very similar to albinism in humans

2. Chelipeds
   -These are my big claws that I use to catch my prey. I also use these babies for defense in times of danger!

3. Telson
   -This is the appendage that is my farthest body segment. When I need to get away quickly, I move my Telson, my tail flicks underneath of me, and I make my rapid backward escape! 

4. Long Antenna 
   -My antennas are used as sensory organs to help me feel my surroundings better. 

5. Feathery Gills
   -I have gills that are “feathery” in appearance so that I have greater surface area, and thus more gas exchange to bring oxygen into my body to breathe! Oh, and just because I have gills doesn’t mean that I can’t be out of water. If you can keep my gills wet I can stay on land as long as I want!

6. Walking Legs to Walk and Swimmerets to Swim
   -I have 4 pairs of walking legs, each with an attached gill to increase my breathing capacity!
   -Underneath my abdomen I have many swimmerets, which are abdominal limbs that function to help me swim and carry eggs during times of breeding! 

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