So I refreshed my clean-up crew about 3 weeks ago. I purchased 10 trochus snails. Today so far, I have lost about half of them. Is this normal with snails where they die very fast or is my tank telling me there is something wrong?
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So I refreshed my clean-up crew about 3 weeks ago. I purchased 10 trochus snails. Today so far, I have lost about half of them. Is this normal with snails where they die very fast or is my tank telling me there is something wrong?
sfin52
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IMO snails dont ship well. How are you acclimating them? That will play a part. Do you have any hermits?
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I temp acclimate them for 30 or so minutes and then I drip acclimate them slowly for another hour before I add them to my tank. Invertebrates do not do well with sudden changes to parameters, especially after being shipped.
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Temp than acclimate them over 2hrs I still loose some. I did your way and mortality was close to 70%
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Yea, I still loose them over time, but this last batch I got several months ago I dripped them very slowly as I also added a star fish, which r notorious for dying if not acclimated verb slowly, and only had a loss percentage of about 10 to 20 percent, but then my trochus snails breed and all of them survived which created and problem with over population.
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How the inverts are handled through the process is a huge contributor in mortality rates as well.
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