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One of my two snails (common unknown type.. the size of a lemon drop) committed suicide! It was in my 1 gallon planted low light tank and being fed regularly with algae pellets (not much algae to eat in that tank) and zooming happily along in life. The tank is on the 4th shelf up of a large bookshelf (eye level for me and I'm 5'5"). Yesterday morning though we woke up to find it dried up, stuck to the vertical piece between the bottom shelf and the floor. That's a long way for a snail to go and I'm not even sure how it dealt with all the shelves.
Why would it do this?????? Did the other snail chase it out? they were about the same size... but mostly they were uhmmm...... together.... making baby snails I think lol.... or perhaps I was wrong and they were fighting?
Tank gets small water changes twice a week with reconstituted RO water. Treated with seachem fertz on occasion, has a small HOB filter and 9w light. Regular gravel, once driftwood piece with java fern, anubias nana and two small patches of some leafy stem plant that I don't remember the name of.
Only other inhabitant besides the snails is a male beta, but he ignores them completely because he knows they are too big to eat.
Why would it do this?????? Did the other snail chase it out? they were about the same size... but mostly they were uhmmm...... together.... making baby snails I think lol.... or perhaps I was wrong and they were fighting?
Tank gets small water changes twice a week with reconstituted RO water. Treated with seachem fertz on occasion, has a small HOB filter and 9w light. Regular gravel, once driftwood piece with java fern, anubias nana and two small patches of some leafy stem plant that I don't remember the name of.
Only other inhabitant besides the snails is a male beta, but he ignores them completely because he knows they are too big to eat.