So.. Evidently organic green beans are a huge hit.
Don't mind the uprooted plant there (rabbit snails are truly jerks) or the state of the tank. I was in a rush to do a gravel vac last night before working another double shift the next day and haven't reorganized the tank yet lol
My new mystery crew! Ivory, blue, magenta, purple, chestnut and olive. Hoping I have a good mix of sexes and they start breeding soon. I also have remaining from my original batch, a blue (who is huge!), an ivory and a chestnut (who are both still pretty small).
Every morning when I turn on the light I'm greeted by the sight of my mystery snails all huddled up along the water line. I used to freak out about the water quality but tests always show no problems. I think they're just up there for air. The only thing that stopped me from testing this morning was the fact that I'd used up all my reagents in previous freakouts so I have to assume they're fine this morning! Plus there are hundreds of snails still cruising the bottom apparently unconcerned about the water
What do you do when you're stressed out beyond belief and facing having to move yet again for not-necessarily legal reasons and get to smell raw sewage every couple of nights when the lawn campers empty their toilet tank in the dark?
Buy a snail!
I bought the last surviving blue mystery snail at the little LPS in my town They don't seem to survive long in that place. How could I not?!
I picked up a cool old pipe-shaped aquarium ornament then realized it would work well for holding down vegetables for my snails. The last one was zucchinI and when I checked on it later it seemed like every snail in the tank had crammed into the pipe for a feast!
This is Chip. S/he is one I got a while back and accidentally dropped, landed on a piece of cardboard then down to the floor. I felt horrible for dropping and breaking its shell but it seems it is growing back nicely!
My mystery snail babies so far! Momma is a blue mystery and the father is either a purple or magenta...his shell is a reddish purple with stripes and his foot is orange. I'm hoping for some awesome color variations! Way too early to tell but I can tell that some have darker shells and some have light shells.
My holiday babies - one of my baby mystery snails born Thanksgiving 2016 (on the left) compared to a baby mystery born New Year's Day 2017. Makes it very easy for me to remember their birthdays. They grow up so fast!
For some reason I can not get this photo to upload, it's less then 20mb. It's less then 1,600 by 1,600 pixels. So I guess I'll leave the link to gallery here *sigh*
My first batch of purple babies! The itty bitty guy in the middle is almost a week old, the other five are about 3-4 weeks old. I just hatched another clutch today too! I keep getting purple babies, even though I have six different colored mystery snails in there?? Lol
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