RCS and Snails Dying

[scottsheldrick]

Hi All,

My RCS population has been decimated and I bought a mystery snail last week that only lasted 3 days. I've bought another mystery snail and its decided to float (I guess trying to move downstream to better water???) and its producing excessive slime. What am I doing wrong here!?

Water parameters are:

Ph - 7.4
Ammonia- 0
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 5
DKh- 5
Dgh- 2

Only have neons, endlers and kuhlis that leave the RCS/snail alone as far as I can see.

Any help will be appreciated!

 

[TMaier]

Your GH is a bit low. But other than that nothing obvious. What are you using to treat your water or any buffers or conditioners being added?

 

[scottsheldrick]

Your GH is a bit low. But other than that nothing obvious. What are you using to treat your water or any buffers or conditioners being added?

Yeah I thought so, just ordered some equilibrium for the Gh and I use prime as conditioner. I have to use baking soda for Kh because my tap is 0. Even if gh is low, why would the snail be producing excessive slime?

Thanks!

 

[TMaier]

My snails do not like baking soda. It has sodium in it. I do t know if that is the same thing as salt but they hate it.

 

[flchamp89]

Gotta ask....did you acclimate properly. Sorry if it seems elementary.

 

[scottsheldrick]

Gotta ask....did you acclimate properly. Sorry if it seems elementary.

RCS i used drip method but the snails I only acclimated temp. The Lfs actually told me to just dump them in straight away! I'm guessing this might be the issue..?

 

[flchamp89]

Possible...snails pretty durable. You should drip all living things really. Odd that its snails and shrimp.

Could be so many things...shrimp I drip for a long time.