A while back, my cleanup crew consisted of ten snails
and three hermit crabs. Now, they
consist of five snails and maybe two hermit crabs.
What happened to the others?
We are assuming starvation. When we went to the LFS and read various
articles, all states one snail per 1 gallon of water. This seemed high to use we went the safer
route with ten instead of twenty snails.
Here is the important thing:
RESEARCH YOUR SPECIES. I have
turbo snails in the tank which are a larger variety. The reason I am out ten dollars now is
because after doing research when the deaths began, I have learned only one
turbo snail per ten gallons of water.
This may seem cruel, but I decided to let the tank
balance itself out despite husband’s idea to just remove snails. The tank seems to have stabilized at five
snails. I am happy to report there have
been no deaths in the last two weeks.
Yay!
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