Christine G

Thanks for the info! It’s a 16 gal that was running for about 2 months. There were two nerites in it. The second set of two were for two ten gallons. I was worried about not enough algae, but found out the light was way too high in intensity after I took them out and the glass was covered in algae within a day or two. Maybe that still isn’t enough though? I added a wonder shell to the tank a few weeks before they were acting strange, other than that no changes. One ramshorn was a pleasant surprise addition with some plants a couple weeks later. The water parameters have been steady the whole time.

Hi everyone, I got a some nerite snails a few months ago for my tank with shrimp. At first they were doing great (eating algae off the glass, algae wafers, burrowing in the gravel etc.). Then they got really lethargic (stopped eating, laying on their sides and not moving their bodies much). We got some new fish and 2 more nerite snails (from a different store) and were putting them through the quarentine trio, so we added the other nerites to see if it would help. Within a week the two new snails were acting the same way. After a couple weeks some were closed up in the shell, but all are alive. Right now we have them in a separate tank with some aquarium salt (1 Tbsp in 5 gallons) but they haven’t moved in a couple days and are not improving. Has anyone else experienced something similar? I have other snails in the original tank (mystery snails, rams horn) and no one else is acting the same way. pH = 7.4 Nitrates = 0 ppm Hardness = 200 ppm Nitrite = 0 ppm Ammonia = 0 ppm KH/Buffer = 80-100 ppm Water Temperature = 75 F