turbo snail
- Thread starter maestro
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pufferlover
Active Member
I agree that all snails are different as far as movement. You are right on one thing when they die if you take a sniff you know it. When I have a new one that does not move within 2 to 3 days I will remove it and touch the end with a object to see if the flap moves if not a very slight pressure on the flap then a sniff and you will know. Sounds like I am in to snails but not really just have had many of them and expect to have about 3/4 live in the beginning.
b_ball12_99
Member
If it doesn't move within 2 days then it probably is dead or will die.
damsel in distress
Member
maestro,
did you take the snails and acclimate them properly? if not there is a good chance your is stressed and could die. always acclimate everything before putting it into your tank. i bought a cleaner shrimp once and didn't acclimate it properly and it died about an hour later.......so please please please do not make the same mistake i made.
did you take the snails and acclimate them properly? if not there is a good chance your is stressed and could die. always acclimate everything before putting it into your tank. i bought a cleaner shrimp once and didn't acclimate it properly and it died about an hour later.......so please please please do not make the same mistake i made.
wolffam
Member
You said that the water wa perfect. I'm assuming then that your phosphates are near zero. I had this same thing happen to two different sets of three snails. I wasn;t testing for phosphates ate the time. All other water test were perfect. I discovered that I had high phosphates at the time. Made the adjustments and haven't had any problems since.
maestro
Member
well the snails dead now i just got an expensive shell. i went and bought another one to day that at least is moving his little suction cup type thing. thanks for your guys help this time i aclimitized him real good the only thing is when went to take him out the bag exploded that sorta freaked me out for a second but everything looks good
thanks again for your guys help
thanks again for your guys help
damsel in distress
Member
lol about the bag exploding. Hopefully the snail is ok, he should be. Since you acclimated this time a little better than before, your snail is probably going to be fine.
pufferlover
Active Member
A little trick I want to share based on the above post about the breaking bag. I always hated working with the bags from the lfs. A few years ago I bought a small lunch type cooler and also a small critter cage, a large critter cage, and a couple of plastic type round food containers with lids. Since then when I buy a fish, coral, snail, whatever I have it put in the appropriate container for the journey home in the closed cooler (light can be stressful to fish being moved). I also bought a 2 gallon plastic pail and lid at Ace Hdw and use this for liverock and larger fish that way I bring them home and can drip them from the tank they are going in as a one step process. Now I might point out that the 3 lfs I normally use are at the furthest less then one half hour from my home so that gives me a lot of time lee way.