Freshie In Disguise
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Terribly baffled here.
The larger of my two striped mystery snails, Bjorn, was found torn and dead at the bottom of my tank about 5 days ago. Why? Boyfriend thought his dojo loach would be happier in my big tropical tank. Moved loach back into his PROPER tank, and moved dead snail into my "BB tub" which is a large sterilite tub full of old tank water, gravel, small (ugly) decorations, dead plants, old filter cartridges etc. which is super handy for cycling new tanks or transplanting algae into tanks with algae-loving critters, etc. I figured Bjorn would be a nice ammonia source and feed the algae. For three days he sat in the same position at the bottom of the tank (because he was dead, of course) and I couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't begun to get fuzzy or decompose at all. I deliberately dumped a heavy stream of tank water onto him when doing my daily PWC, to move him, and he flew to the other side of the tank and sank back down (still dead, of course). For two more days he was in the same spot (obviously, because he was dead). I just went in to feed and do a PWC on my tank, and low and behold, Bjorn was climbing up the side of my BB tub!!!
I put him back in the big tank, and he immediately started climbing the wall.... And he still has a rip, but it actually looks like it's healing, and he is able to eat.
Can someone explain to me how this is?! I don't think I will ever be able to discard a dead animal ever again!!! He was DEAD! I held him in my hand and POKED him!!!
The larger of my two striped mystery snails, Bjorn, was found torn and dead at the bottom of my tank about 5 days ago. Why? Boyfriend thought his dojo loach would be happier in my big tropical tank. Moved loach back into his PROPER tank, and moved dead snail into my "BB tub" which is a large sterilite tub full of old tank water, gravel, small (ugly) decorations, dead plants, old filter cartridges etc. which is super handy for cycling new tanks or transplanting algae into tanks with algae-loving critters, etc. I figured Bjorn would be a nice ammonia source and feed the algae. For three days he sat in the same position at the bottom of the tank (because he was dead, of course) and I couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't begun to get fuzzy or decompose at all. I deliberately dumped a heavy stream of tank water onto him when doing my daily PWC, to move him, and he flew to the other side of the tank and sank back down (still dead, of course). For two more days he was in the same spot (obviously, because he was dead). I just went in to feed and do a PWC on my tank, and low and behold, Bjorn was climbing up the side of my BB tub!!!
I put him back in the big tank, and he immediately started climbing the wall.... And he still has a rip, but it actually looks like it's healing, and he is able to eat.
Can someone explain to me how this is?! I don't think I will ever be able to discard a dead animal ever again!!! He was DEAD! I held him in my hand and POKED him!!!