Anton

We might have taken that too litrally, or god was a little over zealous. "Go in harmony with the earth the fish in the sea the birds in the sky..........every living thing on the earth" might have solved a lot of problems for our planet. Time for another testament maybe? 😜

I think you may be right Guppysnail! That would explain it in my case. So I guess the next question is why do they leave the water when the pressure drops. Could the bladder be causing problems for them. i guess they use those for breathing maybe. Maybe they would suffocate if they stayed under as the pressure is enough to squeeze the dissolved oxygen out of it? Your story made me laugh. i used to do exactly the same thing growing up. We would go on week long trips up the coast of Africa in our land-rover on fishing trips/safaris with my dad who was based in Kenya. Fishing off shore in the sea and lagoons or inland in lakes. I spent most of the time examining the creatures living in the water rather than fishing. Well I never fished, occationally I threw a net to catch assorted wonders which i put in buckets which i would release after looking at them all. Magical worlds they are indeed. There weren't too many books in those days so even today when I come across a familiar fish species I see on the internet its a eureka moment for me which is just as thrilling as when i saw it the first time many years ago.

I'm not sure what this is about. Mine do they same during heavy rains. They climb out the tank and sit there. They don't die. Take a few and throw them in some water and watch them climb straight back out. Small ones big ones they all do it. Something is up with that but i don't know enough about the species to work it out. Could be a sudden change in PH causing it as mine do it during the monsoon rains. They don't bother climbing out to die thats for sure, they just die down there. A sudden mass die back is very bad for the tank, this doesn't seem to have happened, think dead ones are eaten by live ones anyway. Could be fluctuating water levels prompt this like aquatic snails in the wild which climb out at low-tide then scramble back down when the tide comes in. Honestly don't know but its messy constantly brushing them off the rim of my concrete tanks. Looks to me like some kind of estivation, sleep, dormancy due to some trigger. Temps, water parameters. Its not food as I don't hold back on the feeding, they even eat dead fish. If the water is too acidic maybe their shells are in danger off dissolving so they spend more time out the water.....heavy rains are acidic. Salt concentrates could cause this so could stress, even predator behaviour. I use salt so it could be in a quest for less salty conditions, following the rain water.....and etc. Would like to know the answer to this mystery because if it's a warning sign I can act accordingly.