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Anyone familiar with aquatic snails?
#6466497 - 01/16/07 04:08 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've got a little golden snail in my aquarium that seems to have formed a hard shell over the base of it's foot. It's just curled up in the shell with this hard callous over it's foot, but not covering the entire opening, and it's not moving. My first assumption is the poor bugger is dead, but I can't tell if he's still breathing or not. I can't figure out why the hell he'd have this callous over his foot, though. It seems so illogical.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6466512 - 01/16/07 04:11 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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i think mine floated when they died... i might be wrong...
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6467811 - 01/16/07 09:41 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Glancing at my tank and seeing a familiar orange glow, I think I might know what happened. I'm willing to bet that the snail attached itself to the aquarium heater and got burnt when it turned on.
I wonder if he's dead... I've only had the poor idiot for a couple weeks
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6467829 - 01/16/07 09:46 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I would give him some time before you flush him. Maybe he's just...sleeping. With the fishes.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Scott Bennett]
#6467833 - 01/16/07 09:47 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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if its not laying countless eggs everywhere its probably dead.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Scott Bennett]
#6468090 - 01/16/07 11:00 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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ThaiLipaYai said: I would give him some time before you flush him.
Flush him nothin'! You ever heard of escargot?
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6468107 - 01/16/07 11:04 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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is it an Ampullaria sp. "Gold"?
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: boO]
#6468112 - 01/16/07 11:06 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: boO]
#6468199 - 01/16/07 11:46 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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boO said: is it an Ampullaria sp. "Gold"?
I think so, according to the article braniac linked I would guess that it might be a Pomacea bridgesi.
It hasn't moved on it's own, and I wonder if it's just dormant or if the poor thing is dead. It's just laying on the aquarium floor with it's foot not attached, the foot being covered in a brownish colored concave disk.
A quick image search turns up this shell over the foot... so I'll assume that it's naturally occurring. Still, I worry for the little bugger. I fear the conditions in my tank may have killed him. The water itself is extremely hard and I've lost my siphon so I've not replaced any of the water to soften it up in there.
Perhaps one of the other fish (or one of the 4 ghost shrimp) decided to munch on his feelers and he's just hiding and healing. Time will tell.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6468497 - 01/17/07 03:43 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh wow, it's nice to know you're an aquarium enthusiast.
i have 2 tanks at the moment...one 13litre and the other is 54 litre...
I have 5 amano shrimps and 5 crystal red shrimps (class s/a)...just ordered yesterday some nerite snails, 5 tiger shrimps and 5 Palaemon scarletti (have long red noses)....
i always wanted to start a reef tank but decided to take the plunge with a planted tank first..
what type of tank do you have?
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: boO]
#6468507 - 01/17/07 03:59 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have a 10 gallon freshwater tank, non-planted (the light fixture that came with the tank is incandescent, so it can't support plant life).
I need to restock it, really. All I have other than my little "golden mystery snail" is a 5" plecostomus (those damn things grow huge, he's nearly 5 years old and still growing), 4 ghost shrimp, and a kuhli loach (which may very well have attacked the poor snail). To top off that little community, I should probably buy 2 or 3 small, colorful fish to give some life to the water itself. All the other critters tend to just loiter on the gravel.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6470026 - 01/17/07 03:38 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I looked into the tank today and found that the snail was indeed dead. The body had either drifted out of the shell, or was pulled out by the other fish. They're devouring him today, and I think I'll allow them to do so... they rarely get fresh meat.
That's a shame, I liked my little apple snail . I guess I'll leave the shell in the tank as a decoration and buy myself another healthier looking snail.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: Konnrade]
#6470081 - 01/17/07 03:57 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Snails do nothing but die.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: fireworks_god]
#6470137 - 01/17/07 04:16 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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if I ever visit your house I'm going to have Crystal Shrimp Sushi.
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Re: Anyone familiar with aquatic snails? [Re: fireworks_god]
#6470297 - 01/17/07 04:54 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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fireworks_god said: Snails do nothing but die.
Not true, if you get more than one of them or if you buy an aquarium plant that is infested with eggs, the snails also breed like fucking crazy and force you to buy a clown loach to eat the little fucks.
That instance of egg-infested plants was a different form of snail, though. Little brown buggers, looked a lot like regular garden snails. Annoyingly enough the clown loach died after getting rid of the snails... which is just fucked up as that damn fish wasn't cheap.
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