Tostada
Aquarium Advice Freak
I've got a pretty large gold mystery snail who is really active. He does laps around the tank pretty fast, and digs some pretty big holes in the dirt. Then he just goes and sits in the back of the tank behind some plants under my bubble wand for awhile. Still, when he's staying still, he's either on the wall or on the gravel/sand. Today he was sitting there for a long time ... probably an hour, just lying cockeyed half on his side, with his shell half open. I thought he was dead. I've had him about a week and I guess I've never seen him stop moving before.
Maybe somebody was picking on him and he's too big to get his shell closed?
Also, can mystery snails drown? I thought they had a lung and a gill, so it shouldn't be a problem, but my tank is pretty deep, and it takes him awhile to get to the top, and when he gets to the top he looks like he's hyperventalating.
Maybe somebody was picking on him and he's too big to get his shell closed?
Also, can mystery snails drown? I thought they had a lung and a gill, so it shouldn't be a problem, but my tank is pretty deep, and it takes him awhile to get to the top, and when he gets to the top he looks like he's hyperventalating.