How long can you keep live crawfish in the refrigerator?

That's a good answer.

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Make sure to tilt it for the water to run out.

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and leave the lid cracked open for air............

Well here is a question.. Why do you need to put them in a fridge? They dont live in a refrigerator in the wild. We used to always just lay the bag on the groun throw some wet towels over them and boil them the next day.

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Well here is a question.. Why do you need to put them in a fridge?

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That's where they are when you buy them from the seafood places.
It slows them down, so they don't move around and slows the circulation so they need less moisture and air.
The question is how long can they go like that?

Fri to Sun, so we should be okay.

Update, 18 hours in the fridge, and they're still kicking in the sack.

Many years ago, I put some live ones in the fridge. It was in the morning when I stuck them in there. I spent that night at a friend's house since I was too drunk to drive home. I returned to my home at one p.m. the next day. Man, when I unloced the door to my apartment, it smelled like I must of hid fives bodies in there. Now when I get them, I boil them asap. It took over three days to fet that smell of death odor out of that apartment. It took even longer to get the smell out of the fridge.

You fridge must have stopped working because I just took them out after 42 hours in the fridge, and they are all alive and going in the pot in two hours.

I would say 2 days at the longests just because the guy you bought them from may have had them for a day.

cut him slack. this is not the biology board.