marble snails

Greetings,

I recieved my order of assorted aquatic plants yesterday. Included in
the order were two marble snails. I placed them in the tank last
night, along with the plants, but since then they have not moved at
all - even overnight while the lights were out. Could they have died
during shipping, or are they just a little spooked and won't come out
of shell for a day or so? Many thanks.

P. Wright

Paul Wright wrote:

Greetings,

I recieved my order of assorted aquatic plants yesterday. Included in
the order were two marble snails. I placed them in the tank last
night, along with the plants, but since then they have not moved at
all - even overnight while the lights were out. Could they have died
during shipping, or are they just a little spooked and won't come out
of shell for a day or so? Many thanks.

P. Wright


I never head of marble snails? Are they apple snails? this site has
pictures. http://www.applesnail.net
I have around 20 applesnails adults. And sometimes they don't move for a
few days. And sometimes they have been dead. If you just got them they
might be recovering from the trip.

Kay

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:17:37 GMT, Kay wrote:

Paul Wright wrote:

Greetings,

I recieved my order of assorted aquatic plants yesterday. Included in
the order were two marble snails. I placed them in the tank last
night, along with the plants, but since then they have not moved at
all - even overnight while the lights were out. Could they have died
during shipping, or are they just a little spooked and won't come out
of shell for a day or so? Many thanks.

P. Wright


I never head of marble snails? Are they apple snails? this site has
pictures. http://www.applesnail.net
I have around 20 applesnails adults. And sometimes they don't move for a
few days. And sometimes they have been dead. If you just got them they
might be recovering from the trip.

Kay

If you pick one of them up and uses your nose to detect if there is
any smell, you will have the answer.
Any dead animal will start smelling very fast at tropical water
temperatures.

Keyser Soze

Yeah, did that today, and my suspicions were correct. Immediately threw them
out. I don't understand why of all things snails would die. I thought they
could survive when nothing else would. But it wasn't anything I did since
they came that way. Oh well...I'm going to ask for some more snails from the
online vendor. Thanks.

Paul


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P. Wright



"Keyser Soze" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:17:37 GMT, Kay wrote:

Paul Wright wrote:

Greetings,

I recieved my order of assorted aquatic plants yesterday. Included in
the order were two marble snails. I placed them in the tank last
night, along with the plants, but since then they have not moved at
all - even overnight while the lights were out. Could they have died
during shipping, or are they just a little spooked and won't come out
of shell for a day or so? Many thanks.

P. Wright


I never head of marble snails? Are they apple snails? this site has
pictures. http://www.applesnail.net
I have around 20 applesnails adults. And sometimes they don't move for a
few days. And sometimes they have been dead. If you just got them they
might be recovering from the trip.

Kay

If you pick one of them up and uses your nose to detect if there is
any smell, you will have the answer.
Any dead animal will start smelling very fast at tropical water
temperatures.

Keyser Soze

"P. Wright" wrote in message
...
Yeah, did that today, and my suspicions were correct. Immediately threw
them
out. I don't understand why of all things snails would die. I thought they
could survive when nothing else would. But it wasn't anything I did since
they came that way. Oh well...I'm going to ask for some more snails from
the
online vendor. Thanks.

Paul

I've had apple snails, and found it hard to figure out just what it takes to
make them survive and thrive. I have 5 tanks. In 3 of them they don't
survive 3 days, in the other 2 they thrive. I can't figure out what the
difference could be. All the tanks have good filtration and identical water
quality readings. They all have wood and live plants..... beats me

|| I've had apple snails, and found it hard to figure out just what it
|| takes to make them survive and thrive. I have 5 tanks. In 3 of them
|| they don't survive 3 days, in the other 2 they thrive. I can't
|| figure out what the difference could be. All the tanks have good
|| filtration and identical water quality readings. They all have wood
|| and live plants..... beats me

In the tanks where they DO NOT thrive, do you have African dwarf frogs?
Mine eat snails.... any kind, any size....

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McEve wrote:
"P. Wright" wrote in message
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Yeah, did that today, and my suspicions were correct. Immediately threw

them

out. I don't understand why of all things snails would die. I thought they
could survive when nothing else would. But it wasn't anything I did since
they came that way. Oh well...I'm going to ask for some more snails from

the

online vendor. Thanks.

Paul


I've had apple snails, and found it hard to figure out just what it takes to
make them survive and thrive. I have 5 tanks. In 3 of them they don't
survive 3 days, in the other 2 they thrive. I can't figure out what the
difference could be. All the tanks have good filtration and identical water
quality readings. They all have wood and live plants..... beats me



Wood softens the water and is bad for snails, you water has to be
harder. there has to be at leat a 2 to 3 inch drop at the water line.
The foods has to be high in calcium. I use Ken't liquid calcium at half
does and feed them high calcium veggies.

Best way is to visit http://www.applesnail.net

Kay