"Sugarfoot, did you refrigearate the mini-lobster for his family to wake...or did you flush him?"

Actually, we left him there for two weeks in case we'd made some sort of lobster misdiagnosis and he was moulting or meditating or something, although in retrospect this probably had more to do with our squeamishness when it came to handling an expired crustacean rather than a genuine concern. I don't know how things went when his dad got back, but I'm willing to bet he was a little ripe by the time he was fished out, although we did keep the pump on in the tank.