![]() It's not a hard injury to create - snails can actually do it to themselves if they get stuck in a crevice and try to yank themselves out too hard.Īs far as recovery from injury (to the columellar muscle - think I forgot to name it before), unfortunately I have to say I've never seen a marine snail recover from the condition. May want to keep an eye on the collection process next time just to be sure - I have seen some pretty crazy ways of pulling snails away from glass/rocks in an effort to do it quickly. Kind of neat! But I'm not sure if it's related. I did observe one of the snails from the second batch latched onto the shell of another before he was removed.Īlso there is now a teeny tiny baby white snail crawling around on the shell of one of them. I didn't test the water, didn't even think of it. If this is the case and they are left alone, will they eventually get better? Or will they die because they can't get food? But it does sound like what the one was doing, coming out then retracting in quickly. Surely the guys at the LFS would know this, especially the extremely knowledgable guys at Inland Aquatics. I usually find that if you touch the flesh, they will usually let go of whatever they have ahold of by themselves. They do seem to end up upside down more often when first introduced, so I'm usually overly vigilant for the first couple days to make sure to flip them over as soon as I see them. I don't know if it's because of predators in the tank, or if it's some physiological problem, but it's pretty well documented. This seems to be the way many of them die in a relatively short period of time. If you watch them when they're upside down you'll see that they pick up lots of sand with their foot, but can't pull themselves over. This isn't always the case (as you've seen with your one), but I think that likely has more to do with the differences between the source water and your tank (as donya points out).Īs for the 3 that you first mentioned, turbos are notorious for not being able to right themselves when they fall on the sand. Snails are actually relatively susceptible to acclimation shock, which is why the drip acclimation seems to work best. It could be that they are damaged as donya says (for the two most recent ones), but I would still leave them in the tank to see if they start moving on their own. (Edit: had to put a link, the embedded pic shows up wayyyy too big and messes up the post format) Temp is 81 degrees right now, I messed with the heater yesterday and I need to adjust it to get it back to my normal 80.īelow is a pic of what they are doing right now, Blenny won't get the heck out of the way and has been picking on their shells. Salinity was 1.026 this morning but it needed a topoff which I have done already. Levels are good in the new tank, no ammonia, no nitrite, nitrates were around 5ppm, PH is 8.0. That's how I know it isn't copper or something. Even the stomatellas I got as hitchhikers and did not acclimate at all, still are doing fine, as well as the asterina stars and my pep shrimp. I don't understand because the one turbo I have that is still living, I got a few months ago when I had the 5g, and I just dumped him into the tank. For these guys I floated the bag and then drip acclimated for about half an hour. When I lay them on the rocks they kind of expose their insides, but if I pick them up and touch the "foot", they go back into the shell quickly. When I mess with them they will try and latch onto the glass, putting their "foot" out but don't make any suction and can't grab the glass. ![]() Neither of these two are moving at all now. At first one of them would kind of come out of his shell then get scared and go back in quickly, he did this for like 5 minutes then I moved him to the back so he wouldn't see me and get spooked. When I acclimated I just floated the bag, then put a little tank water in, then a little more, then I introduced them.įast forward to yesterday, I got two more snails from a different store. I have two other snails, a turbo and an astrea both from the old tank that are doing just fine along with all the hermits I got at the same time as the new snails. They appeared to be dead and after around 24 hours I threw all three of them out. The snails crawled around on the glass all day, then the day after that I found them upside down. I went to the LFS a few days ago and got 3 turbo snails and a dozen hermits.
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