How to purge crawfish without salt 

I've always been told to do it exactly like how you are doing it with one exception. That would be to put corn meal in the water each time you drain and recycle with fresh water. I guess they will eat it and it helps them to poop more and basically purge the garbage from the river or lake and replace it with sweet corn meal. Just my opinion. Thanks for the video and information. Those are some nice looking craw fish and should be sweet as heck after purging the way you do. Thumbs up and God Bless

These are the cleanest crawfish I have ever seen!

I like this way, my family is from Marksville LA We never used salt or cornmeal just a fresh water rinse to get surface dirt off then purge for at least 24. Choctaw/French

Worked great! Completely clean mud vein. I highly recommend this method.

I always purge them over night with cornmeal and pepper. I know that the black pepper is an irritant to them and it causes them to expel alot of the poop in their vein, I change the water once before I go to bed and once the following morning, each time I add between a cup and 3 cups of cornmeal and 1-3 teaspoons of pepper. Around noon I start the boil and I always find that the veins are yellow and orange with black pepper specks. Its like seasoning them from the inside out! I read somewhere that they cannot digest cornmeal or black pepper so it wont turn to poop(Idk how true that part is but they taste better this way)

Partially close the cooler lid when dumping the water. No bug escapees !!!!!

I have 75 lbs that I want to purge and have a big white cooler will one aerator work or do I need another one?

Just get a fish tank oxygenator that fits the size of your cooler, you can even use a styrofoam cooler but get a big one. Don’t use tap water if it has chlorine or fluoride in it. Pop for bottle water

^ This guy is doing it right

pretty cool crawdads brah

Them some clean crayfish

Salt has very little effect verses water purge. It is a waste of salt and time.

Cool

This is just Special! Come down to Louisiana and see how it’s really done! 😂😂😂😂

Lol I was looking for a quick video it's gone take me 2 weeks just to figure out how to build this