I set up my tank back in March 2019, it is a 60 gal tank. Things have been going fairly well and smooth, everyone has been playing nice in there, and I have been taking it slow. The first things I put in there, after rocks and sand, were 2 turbo snails and 1 smaller one (I don't remember what kind, but might be a margarita?) so I have had them for a while. My smaller snail was found yesterday upside down, and it wasn't the first time, but doesn't happen very often either. I flipped the little guy over, and he made his way to the tank wall, went up a couple inches and just sat there for a few hours and fell back down. I flipped him over again, he moved a little bit then just stayed there in the sand, and hasn't moved since. I know they can go inactive for quite a while, so I wasn't concerned, but today, my husband messaged me saying that a crab was eating him. What would have caused this if everything has been going so well and no one else is bothered? I don't want him to be just the first of many to go, so I wan't to get the problem resolved before I loose more.
My First Dead Snail
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glb
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Sometimes snails just don’t make it. I doubt you did anything wrong at all. I’d check the tank parameters just to be sure. As far as crabs, they’ll go after snails who turn upside down. I don’t have any crabs in my tank for that reason.
Hermie
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when it comes to invertabrates, unfortunately, they are looked at as disposable by most supply chains, I believe. So they already have a higher mortality risk when you get them, and then couple that with the difficulty in "monitoring" their health and behavior given that they don't always show explicit signs of problems... I basically expect a certain percentage of any new inverts I get to die, and the ones that survive I am happy for. Rooting for them.
true as others said. You will often see places the sell these "clean up crews" that snails are major component, will send you follow up emails saying time to replenish your clean up crew knowing that many will expire as time goes on. I will say though, keep a check on those parameters since I did have a MAJOR die off of snails when things went out off whack. However one or couple snails dying not enough to lose any sleep
Dragonreef202
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Also hermits will search snails out for the shells to.
