i've had my first death. :shakehead:
i noticed yesterday morning that one of my great big ramshorns was pulled waaaaay up tight in his shell, with his antenna stretched out inside the shell, not moving at all. i panicked, but figured i'd wait and see, having read here about lots of people thinking a snail was dead for lack of movement. i fed the snails an algea wafer, and watched them conglomerate on it over the course of the day. but last night when i went up to check on him, the shell was floating at the surface of the water, entangled in the frogbit roots. v.v; today, i've seen some of my littler pond snails actually crawling inside the opening of the shell, looking for food! that did it for me. i want to cry now. it seems stupid, but having ramshorns at all was unexpected and it pleased me to no end when i found them in with the plants i bought. judging by the size of the shell, this has to be one of those first ramshorns, because i don't see how any of the snails hatched since then could have outgrown those first ones.
so, this is where i let myself mourn, because if i were to tell my husband that a snail had died and i was sad, he'd think i'd lost my mind, and probably go so far as to go scoop it out of the tank and toss it in the trash. :swear:
i noticed yesterday morning that one of my great big ramshorns was pulled waaaaay up tight in his shell, with his antenna stretched out inside the shell, not moving at all. i panicked, but figured i'd wait and see, having read here about lots of people thinking a snail was dead for lack of movement. i fed the snails an algea wafer, and watched them conglomerate on it over the course of the day. but last night when i went up to check on him, the shell was floating at the surface of the water, entangled in the frogbit roots. v.v; today, i've seen some of my littler pond snails actually crawling inside the opening of the shell, looking for food! that did it for me. i want to cry now. it seems stupid, but having ramshorns at all was unexpected and it pleased me to no end when i found them in with the plants i bought. judging by the size of the shell, this has to be one of those first ramshorns, because i don't see how any of the snails hatched since then could have outgrown those first ones.
so, this is where i let myself mourn, because if i were to tell my husband that a snail had died and i was sad, he'd think i'd lost my mind, and probably go so far as to go scoop it out of the tank and toss it in the trash. :swear:
