Suicidal snails!

[grazzit]

Ok like every other day it seems I find a Turbo snail flipped over on it's back. I flip'em back over and most of the time they're fine but occasionaly they never move again. From my reading I've gathered that it's not uncommon for them to fall off the glass and land on their backs and in that situation they cannot right themselves and it also causes internal problems if they don't get righted soon. Is this really a common thing? From what I had gatehered about them was they were one of the best snails to keep the glass nice and clean but I never expected the mortality rate to be so high! I'm losing about 1 every 5 days right now!

My LFS suggested to me that I should have really gotten margarita snails because they don't suffer from the same problem. I picked up 4 margarita snails about 2 weeks ago to replace the casualities and all of them are doing fine still.

Any thoughts on this? 3 out of my 5 turbo snails are dead so far and I'm really getting depressed about this. Oh and while I'm discussing snails, I've also got 6 bumblebee snails in my tank and once again I researched them after purchase and have found out they are actually predatory and "best left in the ocean". Could these be the cause of my problems? Should they be removed? I've noticed my pod population has significantly dropped in the past couple weeks even though I have actually removed fish in that time.

[Jello]

I have several margarita snails and they sometimes get stuck on their back too. But I just flip them over and they are fine. I've probably lost 2 (out of 20) in the last 6 months. They keep the glass/rocks pretty clean. My tank is 75 gallon.

I also have 5 bumblebee snails and they have never caused a problem. I think they have a bad rep because they sometimes go after things that are on their way to the big fishtank in the sky...they finished off one of the aforementioned margarita snails but it hadn't been acting too healthy for a few days before that. So I guess they might go after turbos that are vulerable. But in general, as long is there is enough other food for the bumblebees, I doubt they will work too hard to eat much 'live' stuff.

Also, my bug population fluctuates. Sometimes I have a lot, sometimes hardly any. I don't think the snails have anything to do with it.

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Typical Turbo snail doing it's thing!! I won't buy anymore that's for sure!

[grazzit]

Thanks for the advice guys, I guess I'll just continue to replace the casualties with margarita snail, hehe hopefully one or 2 turbo snails will be smart enough to live =P

[Casey]

I wont get turbos for that reason and I got rid of my BB"S they were eating at my clams

[grazzit]

Oh trust me casey, if I catch the BB's messing with anything expensive, they're outta there.

[Alice]

Ok like every other day it seems I find a Turbo snail flipped over on it's back. I flip'em back over

Snail Patrol!

BTDT; after awhile I gave up and let the hermits shop for new homes.

[roon21]

snail patrol can be fun 2$at a time