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My mystery snail has been coming out of the water. My nitrate and nitrite levels are perfect, so I'm not sure it's that. We did just get another snail... But I tried to sex them and I'm thinking they're both male?

I've done everything I can to figure out why. But my snail hates ALL water. I've had him for about 3 months now. Originally he would just crawl to the top of the tank above the water. Then he managed to get into the filter. I let him stay there for a week. Found him on the floor. Must have been there for a couple days. Thought he was dead but he's still kicking. He vanished for another week. Found him on the floor this morning. Still somehow alive.

We've tried everything. The water is fine. I tested it so many times. I did water changes. We recently had an outbreak of hitchhiking snails that love the water. Well before we got him. I tried putting him in a fresh tank with nothing but treated water. Still hates it.

Dude is tough. Never eats never enters water for weeks. Still seems chill and fine.

Ph fine. No nitrates. 78 degrees. All the fish and unwanted snails living their best lives. Idk what else I can do. Also I have no idea how he's still just chill and fine considering how little food and water he has access to

Got home and saw them all on each other.

Got this mystery snail labeled as ivory a few months ago, and it seems to be turning an odd pink shade as time goes on. Snail doesn't seem bothered, is active and eating but I can't seem to find anything like it online, does anyone have any experience on what's going on?

Tank is a 75g, with 6 mystery snails and a Siamese algae eater. Diet consists of algae wafers, blanched veggies (spinach, zucchini and broccoli on rotation) with a 30% water change weekly.

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I lost my first mystery snail after about 4.5 months. He was awesome and I feel horrible so curious to get any feedback…bear with me:

Background: I did a lot of research and had appropriate pH, GH, KH and TDS for inverts. I have a variety of shrimp and pest snails all doing fine, as well as a Nerite and black devil spike snail behaving normally.

I struggled to find food for the mystery snail that my fish wouldn’t eat; so once a week I moved him to a separate, small “invert only” tank to eat at his leisure. I used various wafers meant for inverts, and occasional blanched vegetables. I also offered calcium blocks. The rest of the week he had whatever scraps and algae that was available in the main tank (75 gallon).

Maybe once a week was just not sufficient??

Could he have gotten any type of disease from the shrimp or snails in the small tank??

Other info: Over the past month or so I’ve gotten algae in check after starting a better fertilizer regiment; so my nitrates are a little higher than they used to be but nothing crazy - like 10 PPM.

He went downhill pretty quick; I’d say for about 1-2 weeks he started hanging out more towards the top, not moving around as much as usual, and became less interested in food. Then yesterday he was on the bottom of the tank, with most of his body exposed (like half way hanging out of his shell in a strange way) and I knew.

RIP buddy.

So, here in New Zealand we have blue and brown snails which are sold as 'blue' and 'brown' mystery snails respectively and I can reaainably confidently say are Pomacea bridgesii.
However, we also have what are sold as 'golden apple snails', allegedly 'gold' morph Pomacea canaliculata but I suspect at least some of these are actually 'gold' morph P. bridgesii as their shells lack colour banding at all and their foot is a very striking light yellow.

For the experts, if you were looking at snails in a pet store of a similar size and yellow colour, how would you determine who is a potential helper in your mystery snail breeding aspirations and who is a brutal herbivorous sociopath plotting to destroy your planted tank?

Can I put them together

Hi so I'm wondering if I can put guppies, snowball shrimp, and rabbit snails together I'm gonna get about 19-20 live plants for the shrimp and a log for snails to climb on, my substrate is sand and filter is an aqua internal filter. My pH level will be 8.0 I will add a heater and keep temperature at 24-25 Celsius I'll get about 6-7 shrimp 2-3 Rabbit snails and 6 Guppies to start. My tank is 20 gallons, will that be OK for them all?

Guys, i am gonna add substrate to my tank and the snails are at the bottom most of the time, how do i remove them so that they dont get buried??

Well this is a first! lol

one of my favorite snails died and i want to turn its shell into a necklace or keychain. is it possible to do so? and if yes, what would i need to do to make it odorless, sterile, and intact during the process?