Hi all,
Currently dealing with such a frustrating phenomenon. Two months ago one of my trochus snails started flipping itself on purpose. Even if I put it right again, after 5 minutes it flipped itself upside down again. Apparently this has been reported but no real explanation/cause has been found. Theory is that the water values are off. Then suddenly all my snails disappeared and didn’t come out at night anymore. Usually when the lights go out the snails came out until suddenly they didn’t anymore. Then one week after I found two death trochus snails. Still inside the shell and smelling awfull. At this point I already mailed some water samples for ICP. These came back almost perfect. Besides that, all my values are close to perfect but dealing with some dinos and cyano. I have dealth with dinos before and the snails didn’t really seem bothered. Anyways, 2 months later still haven’t seen any other snails. There should be 6 cerith en 3 nassarius snails left somewhere in the sand bed. So, I figured that if they were death I should get them out of the sand bed, thus I went digging and found one. Miraculously he was still alive and burrowed itself instantly. This made me so confused. How can they be thriving and mating for 8 months and then suddenly go A.W.O.L.??? At this point I’m out of ideas and got another trochus to see how he would do. Put him in and he has only moved to fall of a rock and hasn’t moved in 2 days now. Still smells okay but looks death. What is going on?? I am dumbstruck. And another thing. I used to have countless collonista snails, and they too all disappeared. Same with some annoying vermetid snails. Used to see them around and crushed them monthly. But now I see none.
parameters:
Temp: 25 celsius
Ammonia/nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5,6
Phosphate: 0.06
Alk: 7.5
Calc: 400
Mag: 1300
Iodine: 0.04
pH: 8.4
Currently dealing with such a frustrating phenomenon. Two months ago one of my trochus snails started flipping itself on purpose. Even if I put it right again, after 5 minutes it flipped itself upside down again. Apparently this has been reported but no real explanation/cause has been found. Theory is that the water values are off. Then suddenly all my snails disappeared and didn’t come out at night anymore. Usually when the lights go out the snails came out until suddenly they didn’t anymore. Then one week after I found two death trochus snails. Still inside the shell and smelling awfull. At this point I already mailed some water samples for ICP. These came back almost perfect. Besides that, all my values are close to perfect but dealing with some dinos and cyano. I have dealth with dinos before and the snails didn’t really seem bothered. Anyways, 2 months later still haven’t seen any other snails. There should be 6 cerith en 3 nassarius snails left somewhere in the sand bed. So, I figured that if they were death I should get them out of the sand bed, thus I went digging and found one. Miraculously he was still alive and burrowed itself instantly. This made me so confused. How can they be thriving and mating for 8 months and then suddenly go A.W.O.L.??? At this point I’m out of ideas and got another trochus to see how he would do. Put him in and he has only moved to fall of a rock and hasn’t moved in 2 days now. Still smells okay but looks death. What is going on?? I am dumbstruck. And another thing. I used to have countless collonista snails, and they too all disappeared. Same with some annoying vermetid snails. Used to see them around and crushed them monthly. But now I see none.
parameters:
Temp: 25 celsius
Ammonia/nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5,6
Phosphate: 0.06
Alk: 7.5
Calc: 400
Mag: 1300
Iodine: 0.04
pH: 8.4
