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11-30-2012, 02:46 AM
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Snail Escape
I got home today to find a large mexican turbo snail on the floor. He was still alive so I dropped him back in the tank and he's back at doing his thing already. I would have thought the snail would have sensed that he was out of water and went back down the glass. I've had the odd fish go carpet surfing but never thought I had to worry about snails too!
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11-30-2012, 03:31 PM
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I found a hermit crab crawling in my kitchen about 150 feet away from my tank. Silly critters!
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11-30-2012, 03:35 PM
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It can get even worse when you get into snail species that in the wild live in intertidal zones. There are at least 2 or 3 species that are sometimes available as cleanup clew - nerite, marguerites ... I think bumblebee snails as well (which can be FW also). I would find them clear across the room and sometimes with a little dried up slime trail on the carpet. Toss them back in the tank, they'd rehydrate and continue to live .. and eventually climb out the tank again and then this cycle would repeat until the time that their luck would run out and they dry out too much. I tell anyone considering snails to stay away from the intertidal ones!
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-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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11-30-2012, 03:36 PM
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-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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11-30-2012, 04:53 PM
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When I had a nano with a fairly small Mexican Turbo he would repeatedly go to the top of the tank just to the edge and spit water out of the tank somehow. I would end up with dried salt on paperwork in my office as the nano was on a sidetable where I worked. Not hard to imagine one getting over excited and taking a plunge. My main display has an additional horizontal lip and eggcrate preventing such things so never experienced it before.
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11-30-2012, 05:06 PM
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i have a hermit crab that was king of escaping.... until he finally one time met my dog before i could get to him... poor buggar! lol
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12-01-2012, 06:24 AM
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