safe haven for snails?

[fishywishywashy]

okay, I am back again and hoping for more help
I am medicating my 75 gal tank, and since the meds are not nice for snails, I put my two snails in a 1 gal fish bowl. I found out the diet I had been feeding was bad, so I put a cuttle bone in there for some calcium. Okay, for 2 days. Then, both of them were at top of the bowl, on glass, half out of the water. I checked the levels and all were bad, ph low, hardness low, nitrates, high etc. so I did a half water change with tap water with Prime in it. Now snaily is lying his side on the bottom, but not dead. he moves very slow and his body looks whiteish, not his usual black. goldy crawling to top of tank and dropping back down. She, seems okay. Is snaily alright or dying? Thanks again!

 

[msjinkzd]

I am sure they are reacting to the bad water quality. I would do frequent water changes to preserve their health as they are very sensitive. What are the ammonia and nitrite readings?

 

[fishywishywashy]

just did a dipstick, and says nitrites still high around 3.0ppm should I change water again? I have to wait five min for ammonia results.

 

[fishywishywashy]

ammonia is 1 ppm.

 

[msjinkzd]

I would keep doing water changes until t hose levels are as close to 0 as possible.

 

[fishywishywashy]

Can I continune to keep them in there until the tank is free of med's, if I do frequent (like 1 every other day) water changes?

 

[gotglock]

Go to your nearest food store and get a couple gallons of filtered water w/o flouride. Add a bit of prime in it and do water changes every day. If you can get a small filter of some sort on there it will help out with the snails bio load.

Seems your snails are going #2 a lot.

 

[fishywishywashy]

i just changed the water with tap and prime. I have to go to class, but i will return with info. thanks a bunch.

 

[fishywishywashy]

so, to continue, is this whole situation going to be impossible? This little bowl is never going to cycle because I have to keep doing major water changes to keep them alive. Now, treatments for the major tank should not be more than a week, but I am afraid this will be too long for my snails to tuff it out in the bowl. I feel I must shell out the 130 or so to get a 10 gallon and make it their new forever home.

 

[Lupin]

so, to continue, is this whole situation going to be impossible? This little bowl is never going to cycle because I have to keep doing major water changes to keep them alive. Now, treatments for the major tank should not be more than a week, but I am afraid this will be too long for my snails to tuff it out in the bowl. I feel I must shell out the 130 or so to get a 10 gallon and make it their new forever home.

Go to Craiglist and find some tank deals. Sorry about your snails.