Nerite Snail Weirdo

Why would he keep leaving the water? I have now taken him off the top of the lid 3 times and earlier had to get him out of the INSIDE of the filter. What is his problem? And what is the stuff hes leaving behind? Poop?
its a 10 gallon. 6 neon tetras, one baby platy. And him. Perimeters
Ph 8.0
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 25ppm (its water change day)
Temp 78 degrees

 

The only thing I can see is that your pH is rather high for freshwater. I have the same kind of Nerite and he has never left the water. My pH sits at 7.4-7.5. Snails usually leave the water when there is something about it that they don't like. I'm not sure that the pH is the issue, it's just something to consider.

 

Nerite snails usually only leave the water if they feel the tank isn't good for them.
Is there enough algae for them all?

 

Nerite snails usually only leave the water if they feel the tank isn't good for them.
Is there enough algae for them all?

It's a pretty new tank and has no algae growth yet. I have been dropping wafers and some shrimp pellets tho. Maybe I should leave lights on a few extra hours a day to encourage some to grow? Ph is high because the substrate is crushed coral. I can pick up some drift wood later this week to help lower ph. I just did the water change and retested the nitrate sense it was high. Its reading at about 10 ppm now so little better. I'm also gonna get a moss ball to keep that lower. Its my daughters tank lol

 

My Nerite lived through a 5 week cycling process where there was no algae. I kept expecting him to die and I still don't know what he was eating all that time because he ignored everything I put in for him. He must have lived off just biofilm.

 

Nerites are pretty strange, they come from tidal areas and some of them decided to try and replicate the tides by leaving the water for a few hours each day

 

Nerites are pretty strange, they come from tidal areas and some of them decided to try and replicate the tides by leaving the water for a few hours each day

That's what I was thinking is going on. But I'm my tank I have a nerite and a mystery and neither one does it

 

It's a pretty new tank and has no algae growth yet. I have been dropping wafers and some tho. Maybe I should leave on a few extra hours a day to encourage some to grow?

Most nerite snails won't eat anything but algae and biofilm. I would definitely try to grow some algae for them.

 

Most nerite snails won't eat anything but algae and biofilm. I would definitely try to grow some algae for them.

K ill start leaving the light on longer. And keep the blinds open all day. Anything else I can do to encourage algae growth?

 

I had a tiger nerite, zebra nerite, and a mystery snail in my 10 for a while (0/0/0) and only the zebra would climb out for a few hours then climb back in. Recently, my tight has started to do this, but still stays halfway in the water.
I agree on trying to grow more algae, just because I've never had luck getting mine to eat anything else, but my #1 rule to snail keeping is: snails are weird

 

I have a little striped nerite who wouldn't stay in the water for the longest time, until I put a mystery snail and then a horned nerite. Like it wanted a buddy. Now he's climbing up and down leaves just fine. Who knows, snail behavior is weird. And I don't think the white stuff is poop? My snails poop black.