I finally got my petco to order some nerites and I bought 3 zebra nerites. I put 2 in my 5 gallon, temporarily, to eat the high amount of algea. That tank gets sunlight every day.
I put the other one in my 20 gallon which is not heavily decorated and gets no sunlight. It does have a coating of opaque algae, the oto is doing fine in that tank.
After a few days the 2 in the 5 gallon are doing great and the one in the 20 gallon has DISAPPEARED! I have one betta in the 5 and one in the 20 but they don't seem to care about the snails.
Has this ever happened to you? Do they crawl out of the tank??? I can't find it anywhere, not even an empty shell :shock:
He should. I let my assassins loose in my betta tanks and I didn't see them for days. And that was gravel too, not sand. They manage, even though you tell yourself that you'll surely see their stripy shells!!
yeah i bought two nerites the other day, and i've only seen one since that first day. i'm pretty sure, like my rabbit snails, they just like to bury themselves, and hide.
Hmm.....I've had the same problems with my Mystery Snail....named Snailio, currently deceased.
When I was growing out my 2 fancy goldfish in a 10 gallon tank, I decided a snail could make a nice little change. Well, I only had a small castle (no animal could get into those teeny tiny holes, about 1/8 inch wide), 20 strands of Anacharis (spaced out evenly along the wall so that each stem was completely unobstructed, and big pebbles on the bottom. Well, that darn snail managed to disappear every day for the 2 months he was alive, and suddenly pop up, super-active, at night as though he were there the whole time.
It was really weird and I still can't figure out where he went.....Even during water changes he would disappear
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Haha! I have to feed my snails since I don't have algae. I have to hunt them down (which I need a flashlight to look in my fish's house) then I put them in a Betta cup with algae wafers & fish food and let them float until they quit eating. Little pains. My Betta willeat their food if she can get to the food so she made it all complicated.
lol. snails creep me out....... so I got a sucker fish... he also dissapeared.
and then went I went fishing for him he starting sucking on my hand and I FLIPPED out. He woulden't come off. Poor baby..... he hides from me now... :**(
nerites have a tendency to clime out, mine like to hang out under the lip of the cover. Keeping the tank covered is important to keeping them in! IF they smell food, good luck finding them if it's in the dark.
My nerite just chills out on the side of the tank,
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