[Mystery Snail Lying Down]

On 11/17/2020 at 9:53 PM, JLAM said:

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.

Did you find out what was wrong with your snail.  Did she make it?  I just had golden do the same thing and then finally die.  I have 2 more that are doing the same thing.

[Mystery Snails and Shrimp]

On 6/11/2021 at 10:00 AM, laritheloud said:

Okay, so I had an issue where I purchased a blue snail from a petsmart, and he hardly moved for a week. It turned out he was healing from conditions in the pet store, and once I moved him to my flourishing display after a two week quarantine he started to thrive.

For your case... is your tank cycled? I see you have a zero nitrate reading, and typically you see a nitrate reading if your tank is fully cycled. Your TDS is high, but I don't have a basis for comparison for that and can't advise you on whether that matters or not.

It is a newer tank within the setup within the last few months.

[Mystery Snails and Shrimp]

Do you have to cook the food for them or just wash it and drop it in?

[Mystery Snails and Shrimp]

I have a few mystery snails and shrimp.  I purchased my first golden mystery snail at local pet store on May 08, 2021.  I put it in a 36 gal planted tank.  The snail was very active for a few weeks and then began to just not move at the bottom of the tank and come out a little bit, but never moved again. A few weeks later, I purchased 2 more snails at a different local pet store: a blue mystery snail and an ivory snail, and the same thing has happened were both snails were very active and then now they are not moving at all. I put a wonder shell in the tank last night, just in case I don't have enough calcium in the tank. I do have some brown/green algae growing in my tank as well. I can't seem to keep Ghost Shrimp alive in my tank either. What am I doing wrong?

 

My tank tests were taken last night.

Results:

GH:13

KH:6

Copper:0

PH:8

Ammonia:0

Nitrite:0

Nitrate:0

TDS:1357

Temp:77

 

Thanks in advance.