Help- collecting snails

[BAT]

Nerms

i have been collecting snails for my LFS staffer to feed to his puffer. 
I have been collecting them in this plastic container (holes in lid for air) and putting plants in there that I trimmed. 
it smells putrid and I can’t see any snails on side of wall. Do you think they have died? I don’t want to bring him a mass of dead snails. 

[xXInkedPhoenixX]

Rut ro. Try maybe doing a water change and see if you can find any evidence of life?

[xXInkedPhoenixX]

With bladders or similar it's usually pretty apparent right away who is alive and who isn't- they start moving when the water is 

[BAT]

Yeh the fact that I have not seen them on the side of the container was a red flag for me. That was different. 

I was thinking of adding to my compost. I doubt any life. 

[xXInkedPhoenixX]

I recently had to clear out a QT that got "infested" with bladders. I found quite a few former snails but a decent sum of some still alive. I had a sponge filter running and would plop food in there once in a while but I didn't change water for months. You never know. 

[BAT]

Ok. I will try a water change and see what I get. Thanks!

[Bunninose83]

I even find some alive in my canister filter. For sure stir to see before dumping. 🤪