Does anyone clean their snails?

[mozart]

My golden mystery snail has alot of green on its shell. It has really grown quite large and lost a lot of its original color-the algae definitely doesn't help. How long can it be comfortable out of water (if at all)?

 

[msjinkzd]

They can actually be out of the water with no ill effects for a couple of weeks, so cleaning the shell would not be an issue. I even ship my snails out of water in damp polyfill. I would use a brand new soft toothbrush to clean off the algae. Mine are also getting "green" now that they are no longer with shrimp to clean their shells.

 

[bettagurl]

That's what I do, Jinkz, with the ones who aren't with their personal cherry shrimp cleaners :

 

[mozart]

Thanks!

 

[thebullit]

yer i would go with a soft toothbrush aswell, even tho i havnt had an algea problem on my snails.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

they are mailed out of water so taking out to clean would be fine. though i never have.

 

[FtwayneFish]

Mine take showers with me lol.


Toothbrush sounds fine.

 

[dixienut]

put some cherry shrimp in there mine are always cleaning my ramhorns