My snails have taken walks after lights out

[horseplay]

On floor that is. Have been finding almost one every day. One is under the dining room table 8 feet from the tank. Still alive! I don't use a tank cover for the moment since I have no jumpers. Has this happened to you?

 

[Sobo's Reef]

I had Nerite snails climb up and over. Found my cat playing with 2 of em one day lol

 

[horseplay]

Yes I believe these are Nerites.

 

[lefkonj]

I find them on my covers, over the overflow and in the sump all the time.

 

[asonitez]

Nerite snails are functionally stupid. I struggle to decide whether or not they are suicidal... planning the great escape.... or simply.. have bad GPS. One Day entering my son's room.. I smelled the most god-awful thing ever from his toybox. Now you say.... the smell dosen't just happen...... and rightly so... apparently the smell was sealed in the acrylic helmet of a Buzz Lightyear toy. Apparently... the boy had been collecting the "apparently dead and discarded" snail shells... washing them in the bathroom and having a snail shell war in his room. Cheered on my the 2 year old and rightfully so. He didn't realize that fresh snail dosen't smell but one trapped in buzz lightyears helmet does. After bleaching the offending toy and spraying copious amounts of lysol.. all is back to normal...........or is it... yesterday the baby ran into my office clutching a little blue leg hermit which he thought was the most amazing thing because it ran around his hand and the floor.

My inverts are escaping.

 

[jgraz]

Not all nerites escape though.
While I do not know the particular names of them the larger nerites which are usually grey to black with the rougher ridged shell are the ones that escape. The other ones with the smooth shiny colorful shell do not escape.

As I understand it they live in tidal zones and live a good part of their life outside the water.

 

[horseplay]

Mine have ribbed shell. So they're the dumb kind

Do Nerites do anything Astrea don't do? I have been losing Nerites every once a while, maybe due to old age but I rarely see a dead astrea so it's more durable.

 

[JRWOHLER]

Nerite snails are functionally stupid. I struggle to decide whether or not they are suicidal... planning the great escape.... or simply.. have bad GPS. One Day entering my son's room.. I smelled the most god-awful thing ever from his toybox. Now you say.... the smell dosen't just happen...... and rightly so... apparently the smell was sealed in the acrylic helmet of a Buzz Lightyear toy. Apparently... the boy had been collecting the "apparently dead and discarded" snail shells... washing them in the bathroom and having a snail shell war in his room. Cheered on my the 2 year old and rightfully so. He didn't realize that fresh snail dosen't smell but one trapped in buzz lightyears helmet does. After bleaching the offending toy and spraying copious amounts of lysol.. all is back to normal...........or is it... yesterday the baby ran into my office clutching a little blue leg hermit which he thought was the most amazing thing because it ran around his hand and the floor.

My inverts are escaping.

Very funny, there is not much worse than dead snail smell.

 

[Hawkeye]

Very funny, there is not much worse than dead snail smell.

That was a hilarious read.

Nerites are inter-tidal species - not very well suited for our tanks - but they get sold in those clean up crews....i got em myself (shrugs) - most stay in because of the lip on my tank but i guess if you lack that, you'll get them on your floor. Quite a few ended up upside down and food for the few remaining nassarius snails.

Astreas are hit or miss. I've seen some last for well over 7 /8 years. i have two in my tank that are getting up there. Then others become hermit crab homes lol.