Mystery Snail?

Give it a day or two for it to start moving around. My snail took about that long to start looking 'alive', but now its always on the move

Dropping in a piece of veggie once a week or so will help to feed the snail. Blacnh a pea or some zuchinni etc... and place it in the tank. You may need to weight it down. Snails will also look for left over fish food and even graze on some algae. If it is actually an apple snail then it my also start to eat any live plants you may own.

I have mystery snails, they are great, but can stay inside their shells for a long time.

you'll know it's dead if its shell is hollow -- that is, it doesn't have that little trap door on it anymore. if you can see inside the shell, it's dead. also, and this happened with one of my mystery snails, if its door is "hanging" off it, still connected to the snail's body, but just sort of hanging and floating, and your fish are nipping at the snail's body for a while and it doesn't move.. it is dead.. in this case it will also smell very "fishy" after you take it out of your tank and smell it.

that being said, my still living snail is very interesting to watch -- it will climb the tank's walls and then let go spontaniously, floating through the tank on the way down, climbs all over my rocks and driftwood.. very nifty. Definately a cool addition to a tank.

my apple snail eats leftovers from fish (flakes, shrimp pellets, etc) and veggies such as cucumber (he loves it), peas, lettuce, etc.

please check www.applesnail.net for more info.