ew..MOLD on my mystery snail

NilsBaees

NilsBaees

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Sep 22, 2007
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my mystery snail has been half-way tucked inside his shell for a few days now. I poked him a couple of times gently, but he didn't move. Not even a bit. Even when I touched his eye--he didn't recoil or anything. When I took him out of the water, he didn't even twitch. I decided to just put him in a floating breeding confinement in my tank, so my frog and betta couldn't nip at him in his "weird" stage. I just left him there because I didn't know if he was dead or not, and I made sure the lid of the breeding confinement was off so he could go up for air if he needed to. Anyway, I came home from school today and he has MOLD on him. He's still in the same position he was a couple of days ago. I guess he's really dead now, right? and I should take him out of the tank before the mold harms my fish? thanks..:(
 
no..then again, I didn't snill too closely because I don't want to breath in those icky mold spores... but he is so still...even his meat sticking out..... like a rock..can I dispose of him?
 
He was deffinately dead when he was stuck halfway out of his shell. You should do a few WCs. Don't get too close when you take him out, he'll be rank by now.
 
I would think its probably safe to dispose of him. I usually freeze them even if I think they are dead, just to be on the safe side. They can sometimes hang half out of their shell and its normal....the mold/fungus look, not normal.
 
Dwarf Puffers said:
He was deffinately dead when he was stuck halfway out of his shell. You should do a few WCs. Don't get too close when you take him out, he'll be rank by now.
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his flesh wasn't floating, though..it was just as if he was about to tuck into his shell and then..FREEZE FRAME!!
 
NilsBaees said:
his flesh wasn't floating, though..it was just as if he was about to tuck into his shell and then..FREEZE FRAME!!
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That's how all of my snails went when they died. I like to check mine whenever there's any little gap between the foot and the shell, and they haven't changed position for a while. I would wager, especially with the mold (fungus?), that he is long dead.
 
ok thanks dp and jinkzd--I took him out like 10 seconds ago. he didn't move, as expected.

For future reference, if I see mold on a snail, can I assume it is dead?
 
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