Took my snail 3 days to wake up from purchase. Was quite concerned, now awake and as active as the others.

“The snail poops…. There I said it” 😂 I spit out my tea laughing! 👍

Great question. You are awesome Alex

Thank you for all the infos about snail. It really helps.

Fantastically helpful 🐌 video! New to racers and so glad I've learned more about how to help him have a great life!

Your video was so informational and helpful! Thank you so much!

5:12 your tanks are gorgeous!! First time I’ve come across your videos, and will be watching more! But the greens and plants in your tanks are amazing! I literally started with aquarium plants in the last month, and have become obsessed with snails!! Than you a ton for the info!

Awesome and such helpful info!

Awesome video Alex thanks for sharing 👍 😀

I have a mystery snail that is on its 5th day of being half out of the water up against the heater. Sometimes I find him angled 45 degrees as if resting his head on the heater, other times he's perfectly vertical, sometimes his foot is a bit more retracted, sometimes a bit more out and open, so he's definitely alive, but he hasn't moved from that spot for 5 days now. Which means he's not eating in all that time. I take care to pour water over him every hour or two to keep him wet, and put the lid on the tank tight overnight to maximize retained humidity when I can't be putting water on him. Most of the time when I pour water on him he doesn't react, even if a snail next to him does, but one time yesterday he definitely reacted. Lots of snails come by as if to check on him, sometimes even stay and hang out with him for a while, but he never responds to their presence. Sometimes a baby snail will even crawl on top of his shell, but since he's not moving, they can't use him for hitchhiking, so they don't stick around very long. LOL! But the most concerning thing about him is that he is an ivory snail, yet his shell has taken a slight reddish cast. Snail blood is blue, so that's not a blood-related issue, but I have no idea what it is. I have other ivories in the same tank that do not have any reddishness to them, this guy is the only one, and I assume it is indicative of something, but I can't find any useful information as to what. Oh, and a snail that is floating may be alive, but if it is floating upside down, it may not be alive much longer. A month ago I had a mystery snail that was floating upside down at the surface for 5 or 6 days before expiring. I believe just of old age. For most of that time she did have a slight off smell, but upon expiration, the smell was incredibly powerful, it'll knock your socks off. So if you think there might be a slight smell from your mystery snail, that's not death. At least, not yet.

As you know, being a new mystery snail owner, this is something that came up recently for me 🐌 I really enjoyed and appreciated this video! You absolutely "Snailed it"🙌🐌😁 Thank you so much for this informative and wonderful video!! This is going to help me and a lot of people keeping these incredible little creatures!! I love me some snails and I Love you bunches!!! I hope you're having a blessed Sunday!!🥰🙏♥️🤔🌿🐟🌿💚

Thanks for sharing! - Little Bobby

Thank you for this information I Learned a lot thank you so much again my snail fortunately did die but thank you so much for the knowledge on it I will always remember this info

Jeez Alex it is 3:19am here right now lol! But I am watching.

Very very helpful snail video, thank you 😊

Good question. Great video, thanks.

Well done! :D

Excellent Video. Very simple, yet right to the point. I've been looking for a Video like this for a while. I'm new to fish 🐟 keeping. I had many years of Reptile keeping under my belt, then came the kids. I rehomed all of my Animals to Little Ray's Reptile Zoo. All went to good homes, some remained on display in the Zoo. Fast Forward 20 some years , and voila, I was bitten by the fish bug 🐛. I'm oing the Tetra/Guppy thing. Noticed Rams 🐏 Horn snails 🐌, and Malaysian Trumpet 🎺 snails. I'm doing my homework, as I plan on keeping, breeding, and selling some. They are Marvelous.. Long story short, I subbed to your Channel, and I will follow your Vids. Bonjour from Crazy Jay, In La Belle Province de Gatineau Québec. Canada. Peace and Love to all, God Bless 🙌 🙏 ✨️.

this is helpful, ty!

There's a great documentary that just came out on KZfaq a few months ago you may be into. It's called 'Wild Caught: Aquarium fish trade of the Amazon' It's about the Piaberas and the sustainability of wild caught fish.

I'm never buying snails again if this one dies

My nerite snails are little escape artists. I do a snail check every morning now. I know for sure they've been out for over 24 hours, and I'm fairly certain one guy was out for 48 hours once. I have found the little suckers in some crazy places out of the tank, LOL 😆 If I hadn't already known, I prolly would have trashed them, thinking they were dead. They live out of water way longer then people would assume!

This/these tank/s are AMAZING. This may seem like a dumb question, but how do you clean it? Do you clean the gravel and bottom or just water changes?

Love the video! Your tank is gorgeous! I just made my KZfaq channel thanks for the inspiration 🙏🏽😇

Ok, I found some normal outdoor snail months ago, a mom & 2 tiny babes. It was raining really bad for Days, I took all of them inside and gave them a Safe place in a big plastic container. The big one who was not even that big like Big snails, got out and I never could find her. But I kept the babies for a few months, fed them an they did fine. I started feeling bad cuz they were confined to a small space. So after weeks of pondering what to do ..... I put them outside in a safe spot under my shed. I only did this cuz of all the Info I got about how they need to Survive?? So, I assumed my baby snails would die, I let them go. But months later ........ like 4months later I find the Mom ALIVE on the side of a closed book where I was cleaning. Id looked Everywhere when she went missing!? After a few weeks I for sure thought she was dead!! She is now in my kitchen ....ALIVE and I feel AWFUL that Im sure her babies are dead cuz the wild animals leave snail shells in the water bowls all the time these days!! Live and Learn ..... life is so hard when you are an Empath!!

Nice! I noticed you've got a blue tiger blood parrot. They're so cool! I've been told that they're a cross between a convict and blood parrot. Any tips on keeping them? Also thanks for the snail content!

9:17 Do you ever have to "Burp" a snail? For example, if you had snails shipped to you that have been out of the water for a while, do they need some help with the trapped air?

Thank you so much my snail Matt has been really sick

Great 5 am watch after work lol

I have golden mystery snail thought one of them died and this was the night before the first day of school and I moved him from his spot after hours put him in a new spot and his now slithering away thank you!

Hello Alexander Williamson! Thank you for doing this video! I just received a mystery snail from aquatic arts a couple days ago. I am new to mystery snails but have done research and am currently doing more. This little guy/girl is tight in its shell since in the shipping container, temperature acclimated and place him/her in it’s new home. Has not budged but is alive. No odor. I’ve read they can sleep for days, even a couple weeks? I also read recently they will hibernate if temp drops enough (maybe that’s more likely in nature than an aquarium). Interesting. Do you have an idea of how long I should give before I should get concerned? I was told by one source they may stay like this for a few days while getting use to new surroundings and parameters. I hope you are doing well with your recent surgery!

I have 3 mystery snails in my 125g community tank and I've noticed they haven't moved in about 3 or 4 days. I just took them out while listening to your video. All have no smell, trap door is close almost all the way and when I touched the trap door they didn't pull it in tight like I assumed they would. Not sure what's going on but I did add an electric blue acara last weekend that could have nipped at them but they are way too big for him to eat. Thoughts??

Lol nice release time good video topic too haha

I recently bought 2 mystery snails 3 days ago and on the second day to them acclimating to there tank they seemed pretty content and partially were coming out and then today on day 3 they both floated up to the surface and they both don’t smell bad they there trap doors are both shut but not tight and they seem alive but there the only ones in the tank and it’s 3.5 gallons and filtered any idea what they could be doing

I couldn’t find my snail in my tank yesterday which has happened before and then he/she usually pops up the next day on the wall or something but I found it on its back in the tank. This happened last week but I saw it moving last time and turned it over so it was right side up and my snail went on it’s merry way. I’m worried it might’ve died this time though because I have no idea how long it was in that spot and it wasn’t moving it’s foot like last time. I honestly didn’t even know snails could end up on their backs until these experiences. I put it right side up again but it’s been all day and has not budged. I don’t want to just assume it’s dead but I really am worried that it is.

So one time I had a mystery snail escape a tank. My wife and I noticed it disappear and looked for it but couldn't find it. 3 weeks later my daughter find it on a box full of crayons, she had next to that tank. We thought it was dead, I even put it on the garbage, but them I took it out and put it in a cup of tank water; 15 min after it was moving . So his name is now Lazarus , Laz for short lol.

What options can I feed my snails? I have four and they aren’t eating the algae wafers I’m giving them New tank so no algae yet

What do you feed your snails and what do you feed your shrimp I feed shrimp wafers, frozen dried blood worms

your tank has a big bioload, I was wondering, i have a 15 gallon tank i want to keep apple snails in, how many would be alright? (I'm not interested in overstocking but its hard to find appropriate care guides and your snails look so healthy!) Also do apple snails filter feed through their siphon or is that for just oxygen?

Hey alex (or anyone reading this :( ), panicked emergency question from a new crustacean keeper and I cannot find ANYTHING cohesive - none of it adds up for my situation entirely. I truly believed I had researched everything and covered every potential variable for a new tank/keeper. This is going to be long, but given that I constantly see threads asking for these details when people have questions like mine, I hope this can help with some clues: I just recently added some new plants and a big boi rabbit snail to my unfiltered planted fish tank (no co2 either, just regular 15% max water changes). At first, it seemed like everything was good. I had my yellow bee shrimp and rabbit snail in there for a few days and everyone was chillin'. I was VERY VERY careful to ensure my tank ph and levels matched the water the shrimp came with. I am extremely paranoid as I was terrified of hurting them. They aren't just cool animals to me, I named and was attached to all of them the second I brought them home (and yes, I can tell the difference between the new shrimp!). My snail was munching on the glass and my one bee shrimp was casually exploring the tank, eating algae discs, and generally being a cutie shrimpy boi. When I got three more shrimp yesterday along with the aforementioned plants (the guy at the aquarium supply assured me none were toxic to shrimp...but also didn't seem to recognize?), I VERY VERY slowly drip acclimated the new shrimp. I usually do it by hand, but I stay next to the tank as it is on my desk by my computer and I will add a few drops every 2 mins or so for oh, 3 hours or so as I do other tasks. As it gets past the second hour, I will start to space it out a bit longer and do it a tablespoon or so at a time and see how they react. Last night, however, I had the new plants so I added them to my tank. Some of which came floating back up due to the disturbances in the water (I like to put plants in odd crevices that still have access to the larger substrate bottom to root in) and one or two stems got a little smooshed from my tools repeatedly replacing them. I trimmed them and then promptly stuck them back into the black fluval substrate/silica sand. I DID notice that during this planting, a great deal of nasty material came up from the substrate (I usually vacuum over as opposed to into, as to not disrupt the sand or bacteria too much). This happened the day I got my initial snail and shrimp as well. I also added some root tabs with those TC plants (I bought them from an aquarist/planted tank shop on Etsy that claimed that the root tabs were snail and shrimp friendly..) but everyone seemed fine. Fast forward and I add my acclimated shrimp to my tank. One of my new shrimp starts flailing on the rocks below within minutes - okay, so it's just molting, right? But that is not a good sign straight away, and I do not get it bc my GH and PH were fine.. It molts successfully... then dies. A second, then third, then my final and first suffers this fate. The weird thing was, I removed the last one when it tried to swim but started sinking and put it in some fresh filtered remineralized RO water. My snail who was chillin' on the glass, began excessively defecating around this time. I removed him as well. Both immediately perked up and all seemed well. I waited several hours, and began drip acclimating. Within 20 mins, that shrimp went into a forced molt too (which I expected, it was not even able to swim), and despite the molt going without a hitch, it still couldn't swim right and seemed weak. Being new, I was not sure if this was normal or not. :/ I went to bed after observing a few more hours. I woke up, and my shrimp was completely dead, my snail was emitting an EMMENSE amount of white slime from its body and not moving. I took it out and put it on its side, smelled it, everything I was told to do and to my surprise, it came back. I decided to try something different, and use tap water instead in a completely fresh (but temp and ph comperable) change.. It has since stopped emitting that horrible stuff at the bottom of the tank and crawling around pathetically, and is now stuck to the glass near the waterline. Which, is this a problem as well? Please let me know what I have done wrong, here. :(

My new mystery snail has burrowed itself completely under the aqua soil substrate in my tank. After a few days I thought it may have been dead so I gently uncovered it. It is still alive and crawled around a bit before completely burying itself again. I have never seen this behavior in a mystery snail before. Is this normal? On a separate question how long or how many water changes should you wait before reintroducing snails back into the tank after using the product "No Planeria"?

My mystery snail is the proper color, his shell is partially open and there is no odor but he isn't eating or moving at all and the bit of him I can see is a bit puffy

What if your snail has a trapdoor, but parts of its body are hanging out and it’s not moving? I did some tests to check if it’s dead but it doesn’t smell bad, it’s still heavy, I even slighty shook it to see if it would fall out of the shell but it hasn’t. I tried to do the light test as well, however the shell is too thick and I can’t tell if it’s dead

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I just got a snail in the mail today and it hasn't moved yet but I heard they take time. Hopefully he is alive

I wondered if my golden apple snail was sleeping or dead. I took it out and found out it was very dead. I was quite fond of it too. 🙁 It used to come to the top and take food from my fingers.

What if you find them rolling around in your fish tank? Because of the current after that I tried placing them on the bottom and they usually move around if not I have no idea what they're doing

My snail 🐌 is Alive thank you alot Good bless you

i’m really worried.. i have 2 little goldfish and a guppy and i had one snail and he was doing great! but then i decided to get 2 more snails bc my tank is in need of more snails so i got 2 more of the same snail.. (unfortunately females but i wasn’t aware when purchasing) and they’re doing good but now the original snail i had went upside down and hasn’t moved.. i tried flipping him just in case he was maybe stuck but he hasn’t moved so i thought maybe he was resting but it’s been 2-3 days so im really concerned

im worried about my mystery snail, her name is aquamarine and she is SUPER far back into her shell. she doesnt smell bad and her trapdoor is on, but shes way far back and won’t come out. i tried giving her an air bath and she didn’t even budge.

Just got some apple snails about the size of golf balls from pets at home ones unsealed but he’s homies still tucked away lol

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Hey! How ya doing? You ever have a mystery snail egg clutch hatch successfully?

How long would my snail stay playing dead

One of my mystery snails keeps trying to live on the floor 🥲 everyone else is happy and water conditions are great. I’m not sure if he’s just old and done? lol

My snail just came completely out of its shell lol no stink! Was just sleeping a couple of days

Hello, my mystery snail has been hiding in its Shell for a few hours It was alive yesterday but the moment I was cleaning the tank it never showed movement or peeked out its shell.

I have Sulawesi snails and they don't move often. They lie the whole day on the same spot. They don't smell bad so I don't understand.

How do I move my snail to another tank without hurting him or pulling on his shell plSSSSSSSSSSS

Bro I bring 2 snails for 2 days they active but now they very less active and they remain same place for long time like 6to 8 h is that ok? Or any problem

My apple snail are producing slime or saliva and arent moving like they use to are they sick?

Hey Alexander do the black devil spiked snails like tanic water? If so say tanic with me😆🤣

My mystery snail seems to be afraid of our stone substrate. What to do?

Idk if my snail is okay, but he falls off the glass onto the bottom of the tank and goes in and out of his shell finally staying partially out of his shell. After he looks like the healthiest snail in the tank. I think he might be dying.

6:57 Turkey baster puff puff, to see if it passed? 🐌

My apple snail has been in its shell on the bottom of my aquarium floor for 3 days now.. (or more) after i put food next to it.. or against its shell door , it did move about 5cm or 2inches away in the past 3 days (it did not eat the food) . its laying sideways. i think its alive.. because it seems to move the door every 4ish hours but it has never ever been this inactive, and i don't know what i should do. my fish tank is crystal clear. i have not done almost any water changes for 5 months and if i have , its has been very minimal 5-10% max because all the tests show OK results. reasons for adding water = evaporation or because i was cutting a ton of overgrown Limnophila sessiliflora that plant seems to be on steroids .

i think my snail might be dead but i don’t know?? my snail was on the side of the tank and hadn’t moved for a day or so (it’s only my third day of having him) and so i moved him (which now i know you’re not supposed to do oops) and i’m just waiting to see if he’ll move or not, i’ve had problems with pets i’ve bought from the petsmart i bought him from before (i bought 7 fish from there and they all died yet the ph balance of my water was fine) and i finally got a betta that has stayed alive (and he’s super happy) so we got him a friend snail but now i’m afraid the snail might be dead

I read snails can sleep up to 3 days. Is this true?

I bought my Nerite snail a week ago from a pet store. It got around the tank pretty well for the first two days. Now it hasn’t moved in 4 days, it is alive tho. 🤷‍♀️ It’s not doing its job, the whole reason I got it.

Pomacea diffusa - Spike top apple snail

Im so stupid i left it out side and it got all wet in the small box with holes and there out of there shell but not moving

I found a lost garden snail

My barbs eat snail eggs. I have no young snail in the barber tank.

How do u know if a mystery snail is sleeping??!. Mine where fine yesterday. But today they. HAVEN'T came out of there shells .BUT there alive still !!but not moving & there foot is closed, i have one thats been floating all afternoon!!🤔😳 foot is closed but he's alive to. & if sleeping HOW long do they sleep ?& do they sleep in the day time??!!!. I changed my tank 2 days ago. The water is fine. My fish is swimming happy & fine to. IM CONFUSED HERE ON MY SNAILS!🤔🤔🤔🤔😳😳😳.

Just a small dab of Colgate radient toothpaste goes a long way and actually works fyi

12:34 So, a mystery snail's trail is sometimes a mystery? 🐌

I got ten baby apple snails. Put them in the tank, and after 2 days of not moving I threw them away, except for a random one I put back in. After 2 weeks of not showing any sign of life, he started cleaning hardscape😭 Now I feel horrible for kiling those 9 other...

Do Nerite snails bite

What about assassin snails

Make like an assassin snail and pretend that like button is a Ramshorn!

Hope I never have to smell a dead snail 🤮 x

Prejudice against bladder snails I see.

Here's a tip, if you're not sure, it's probably alive

NEVEE TRY TO MOVE YOUR SNAIL WITH FORCE! I just accidentally killed one, his body is now helping plant life eat and thrive but still I feel... terrible, their shels are more fragile than one would think

My zebra snail smells like farts! Is she dead? 💔

My zebra snail smells likes farts! Is it dead 💔

And your snails 🐌 are going at bathroom 😂😂😂

I think my snails dead bro 😭