Sometimes, when the water condition is not to its liking, snails will retract into their shell and refuse to come out, even till the day they die. I've not kept a Tylomelania so I'm not sure if the same is true for them?
Anyone with experience?
Anyone has encountered baby Tylomelania snails dying a slow death? They hole up in their shells until even the cover cannot be seen.
I had one snail that lay motionless for a week or more but I noticed it still responded by trying to retract further when disturbed. When relaxed, the yellow flesh can be seen behind the cover.
I decided to do something drastic today, I used a pair of sharp pliers and broke off bits of the shell from the front until I exposed more of the snail flesh.
Within minutes of returning it to the aquarium, it was crawling about.
I hope it survives the crude operation.
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Sometimes, when the water condition is not to its liking, snails will retract into their shell and refuse to come out, even till the day they die. I've not kept a Tylomelania so I'm not sure if the same is true for them?
Anyone with experience?
Are the baby tylos born in the tank or store bought? If the former, did you change anything recently? It might have changed the water parameters and its not suitable for them. If the latter, did you acclimatize them slowly? If not they might not have gotten used to or cannot tolerate your tank conditions. Some parameters might help us.
Draka,
I don't know if they were tank bred or from store as I just got some babies and mixed with those in my tank.
I was going on holiday so I put all the snails together in one tank.
Only 3 Orange Rabbit snail babies behaved like that, two are dead nothing in the shells, the other 5 baby Orange snails are ok and so are the other 7 yellow tylomelania snails.
Hard to pin point a cause as the babies of the yellow tylomelania snails were ok.
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I lost two baby orange snails so far, but got back one this afternoon.
Here is a picture of the newborn still surrounded by a gel like substance. It has already started to try and push or eat through the gel and begin its first steps.
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