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No, she died, and we never figured out what went wrong. I'm sorry to hear your Golden Mystery snails are having similar issues.

Our golden mystery snail hasn't been very active lately; she's* lying down a lot, with her foot mostly or 100% closed. I don't recall ever seeing her do this before, and we've had her about 8 months. I did a 40% water change to see if that would do anything, and she is still lying down most of the time. She does move, but rarely, and not too far. Water test before water change just showed some slightly elevated Nitrates. Water test 24 hrs after change cleared that up -- nothing else out of the ordinary. We have very hard water, so pH is very high as the norm, but it's never been an issue. Blue fantail goldfish, African dwarf frog, and 2nd snail are all seemingly doing fine. The only other abnormality is a small breakout of black beard algae on one of our moneywort plants. Could that be making our mystery snail sick or something? *I'm not actually sure if this is a male or female snail -- we've just always referred to it as "she" 🙂 : Shelly.

RE: water conditioners... Is there any difference between them? No ingredients listing on either of the two that I have, so I'm unable to compare. One is API brand Tap Water Conditioner "super strength" and the other is Top Fin brand Betta Water Conditioner. I received the latter from a friend who no longer needed it. We have a goldfish, African dwarf frog, and two snails in our 20 gal tank. Can I use the Betta water conditioner? Thanks!

Your goldfish is beautiful! Every 2-3 days, we feed our blue fantail (Ziggy) 1 frozen pea, thawed and chopped into tiny bits. He LOVES peas and it seems to clean out his digestive tract very well. On non-pea days, he gets very small amounts of regular flakes or sinking pellets. During summer months, we collect duckweed from a local pond and cultivate it in a second tank. Ziggy eats it up too fast if we try to grow it in his tank. 🙂