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Wait I didn’t notice my bichir is literally A PEEPER

Do I risk putting them in uncycled water or risk keeping them in the tank? Will my hitchhikers be ok? I love these little snails :[

We’ve had this new to us 2.5 gallon fish tank for about a month now. We have 1 betta fish and now 3 snails. We had 4 snails but the biggest snail passed after less than two weeks with us. I’ve been doing weekly partial water changes, replacing 25-30% of the water each time. I replace with distilled water per the store’s recommendation. I was told to use Prime/Seachem dechlorinator with each water change. About 5 days into the last water change and I tested the water with Tetra strips. Per the strip, we have Nitrite, hard water and ph can be adjusted but not bad. Can or should I introduce Tetra EasyBalance or Prime Seachem Stability? Thank you

I did a trade with my LFS maybe 5 years ago and they gave me 3 of these guys. I can count on my hands how many times I’ve seen them since, they’re always burrowed and I have no idea how many are left, but it’s a nice little surprise to see one show up!

We have had two mystery snails for about 2 weeks now and last night we did a 25% water change and noticed one of them has been producing a lot more slime and than I saw it doing this. Kind of like he is losing control.

hii im new to owning mystery snails and i need help knowing how to care for them i have a 20gallon long with a heater and filter (how many can i have?). I want to know what to feed them and how often, or can someone make me a feeding schedule with some variety of foods for each day of the week (if they eat everyday) or if im asking for too much can i just get informed on how to feed calcium since i know that’s really important for their shells. Please and thank you

I realized that my greenhouse barrel pond was so impractical for these to actually escape that I shouldn’t overly worry. They’d have to climb up out of the pond, over an outside lip, down 3 feet at an angle, another foot over dry cocofiber liner, squeeze out of the well closed greenhouse, be picked up by a bird, and then be dropped in another body of water (at least twice given mystery snails having distinct genders, which there may not even be a pair of both between these two) of which most of the near ones are brackish, AND its freezing here most of the year.

I still haven’t named them. The blue one found its way onto a piece of azolla (small floating water ferns), tried eating it, and fell to the bottom of the barrel, and the other one had to be manually released from its tiny (open) floating prison (again it had multiple hours to escape through a wide open hole).

Oh also there was a teenytiny hitchhiking snail that might have been a baby mystery snail or trapdoor snail, too small to tell yet.

Want to buy some and I can't find anyone who sells them online, unless I didn't look hard enough. :)

just got 2 of these mystery snails today and was wondering what other snails i should keep with them and how many i should keep in a 20 gallon long tank?

I have a few mystery snails in my 33 gallon that are suddenly dieing out of nowhere. I know they are all really young, as I hatched them all myself months ago. Some however that aren't even related, and are my older store purchased snails are also dieing. We keep finding them in the same way, half open and as hard as a rock. I have done NOTHING new to this tank in weeks, besides regular water changes and cleaning the substrate. Anyone have an idea of what is going on?

Water quality was checked, and nothing was out of order, if anything it was looking better than typical.

I have had 2 store bought snails, and 3 homegrown snails die in the last 48 hours. Some are very young, others are upwards of 6 months old.