suicidal snail.....

[88 hatchback]

yeah I know.. it sounds odd at first...

but I keep finding my snail upside down... and in places that he couldn't possibly get to on his own...



why is this?? is the snail dying?? or trying to?


or is it just something they do???

I need a snail shrink! LOL



as for the tank.. gave it a couple days without light.. and the red slime is gone!!!

[ChangDriX]

nah, it's just something they do, mine fall over all the time

[Jesshika]

Yea happens to mine too. I really had a problem with my astrea snails falling off until all of them died eventually. I stick to cerith snails now, they still fall off but not as much as the cone shaped shells like the astreas.

[ChangDriX]

i have one turbo and some nass sails and alot of fancy nass's they can all flip themselves over

[ChangDriX]

88 hopefully you won't have to experience the smell of snail stank...haha

[Jesshika]

i have one turbo and some nass sails and alot of fancy nass's they can all flip themselves over

Thats why the nassarius are my favorite, I don't need to help them get right side up like the others. Too bad they're not algae eaters otherwise I wouldn't even need the cerith :headshake2:

[Charlesr1958]

The Astrea snails are not reef snails, I have yet to find them anywhere but in the sea grass beds. Their cone shape, as you guessed at, gets them into trouble in rocky environments. Also keep in mind that suppliers will label anything "reef" as long as it came out of a warm(ish) ocean. That doesn't mean that everything lives on coral reef habitats, what about shorelines, grass beds, lagoons, marco algae shallow areas, mangrove swamps and so on? What ever is easiest to collect, which usualy means shallow and close to shore is what they grab and pawn off onto us, while recommending 180 snails go into a 150 gallon tank that is just being set up.

Chuck

[Grins]

The only trouble I had with that was with a large zebra turbo that started falling and I believe he was at the end of his life cycle.

[88 hatchback]

I think that's the problem with this guy... he's pretty big.... and now he's not coming out at all...

how do you check to see if you're snail is dead??? I know.. morbid question... should he try and close his "door" when prodded?

[Jesshika]

If he remains in his shell for a long enough time, like a few hours, then he may already be dead =/

[Charlesr1958]

Sniff test! I used my kids for that though, When one walks past ya just say "hey kid, does this smell like candy?" If they just say no, its alive, but if they run to their momma yelling "ewwwww gross!!", then its dead.

Chuck

[88 hatchback]

^^ can I borrow a child? lol