Weird, weird shell damage of baby briggs

NilsBaees

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Sep 22, 2007
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I have about 10 marble-sized baby blue briggs. I noticed their shells looked thin, and you could see lines in them, and they were light brown. Not "blue" at all, nor creamy/rich-colored like when they were younger. I just did a water change two days ago (FYI I have soft acidic water), adding lots of calcium and baking soda. I do this usually, but I did extra during the water change. This morning I noticed some really strange growth. It looks like visor caps attached to their shells! However, this new shell growth is perfect-- just how the shell is supposed to be. It is very awkward-looking, jutting out directly from the bad parts of the shell, and makes the snails' shapes very strange. This is only happening to my babies, not the dad. Will it hurt them in the long run? What can I do?

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I had this on my mts when I got them. It never seem to bug them or afflict them in any way at all. They seemed good until my assassins got them.
 
Woah :O
 
nope, no fluctuations. i told you everything in the chat. :)

its SO fast growing!!! It grew some more, if my eyes arent tricking me!!! now they look even weirder!
 
I had a magenta snail that did this. When I got it, it had some funky shell growth and within days the new growth was apparent, bulging away from the old shell, making it look almost as though the old shell was too small for it. As time went on and it grew more and more, the thin outer layer of the old shell started to flake off, showing smooth new growth underneath. Now that same snail is golfball size with a perfect even shell.

Strange huh?

Kristina
 
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