Inactive/dead Mystery snail?

[ILuvSandwiches]

I have a tank set up at my teacher's class room at school. It is a 10 gallon, and has been fully cycled. These past few weeks I have taken to slowly adding fish to it. I started by adding two neon tetras (a day apart) and a snail. Everything was going awesome.

Monday, I finished by adding in another neon (making a total of 6) and a Betta fish. My issus is that the snail, which used to be very active, is just kind of sitting there and doing nothing. As strange as it sounds, I even poked it with a stick (stick as in the handle of a net) and it did nothing. Should I take it out (if it's dead I don't want to leave it in there)? Leave it for a couple days? What do you think? Thank you!

 

[ImACoolguy]

Take it out and smell it. You will know if it's dead lol.


Caleb

 

[ILuvSandwiches]

It smells like fish tank. What does that mean?

 

[ImACoolguy]

It smells like fish tank. What does that mean?

Smell the snail. If the snail doesn't smell like putrid and death it's alive.


Caleb

 

[ILuvSandwiches]

Cool! The snail just smell's like it's been in a fish tank and not like death so I take that as a good thing. Thank you! ^^

 

[Chillie308]

And you would defiantly smell it if it was dead no guessing I got one out of my tank and the smell filled the room

 

[ILuvSandwiches]

Yikes. Well it's in my science teachers classroom so hopefully that doesn't happen. XD