Snail Rotation

[Impudence12]

Are snails, apple snails specifically, susceptible to significant ph changes? Say if you move them between a tank with super hard water with an 8 ph and a tank with super soft water and 6 ph, would they suffer like a fish would?

I really like my apple snail (Crunchy) but I don't know if my soft water will be a nightmare for him. I know it will lead to a weak shell and maybe holes in it, but he doesn't have any predator fish in his tank. I got a random idea to have a snail tank with a couple snails, and have a more snail friendly hardness of water (putting a shell in there) and having 1 snail live in the larger tank for a couple weeks to a month then rotating him out back into the snail tank and taking a snail tank snail and adding him to the larger one, kinda like crop rotations. Is this just a silly idea that's pointless, or dangerous to the snails? It popped into my head while worrying about Crunchy and the soft water.

 

[justintoxicated]

wont really work to well, bt will make lots of lines & weaker areas on the shell. If you want to try in softer water let it adapt and be done with it I would not rotate them.

 

[Impudence12]

Just for future reference, does water condition (temp, toxins, ph) changes effect snails like fish?

 

[silentskream]

whenever something goes wrong in my tank, the snails are the first to go. they seem to be more sensitive than the fish.

i have had an outbreak of snails in my soft-water tank.. they dont get very big but i haven't had any problems with shell weakness... i actually have weaker shells in my goldfish tank (harder water, neutral PH) that may be because the goldfish are stronger and like to nibble.

 

[pixl8r]

The only way that my snails have died is from the claws of crayfish or prawns. I don't let them eat my Mystery snails, but they munch on others with much delight.