Transporting an adult mystery snail

[bcan]

Hi all,

I am going to college soon and I want to take my adult mystery snail with me. I’ve heard a lot about transporting baby mystery snails, but mine is over an inch long so I don’t know if those same ways of transport are valid. It’s a 3 hour car ride to my college, but then I need to buy and set up an aquarium there, so my snail could be in whatever vessel I choose for 7 or 8 hours. Has anyone done this before? If so how did you do it to protect your snail?

 

[Kaity]

Hi all,

I am going to college soon and I want to take my adult mystery snail with me. I’ve heard a lot about transporting baby mystery snails, but mine is over an inch long so I don’t know if those same ways of transport are valid. It’s a 3 hour car ride to my college, but then I need to buy and set up an aquarium there, so my snail could be in whatever vessel I choose for 7 or 8 hours. Has anyone done this before? If so how did you do it to protect your snail?

When I was in college I transported a fish bowl with one snail and one dwarf gourami and a large pothos back and forth from college. I would empty the five gallon bowl only halfway and move them in it on the floor of my chevy cavalier padded with blankets so it couldn't move or shift. Everything survived many trips.

The first time I tried to move that antique fish bowl empty without fish it broke. Go figure.

 

[Dch48]

When you buy the snails online they ship them in a bag or small cup and wrapped in wet paper towels. (Wet with tank water not tap). you could do that or put some tank water in a small container with a lid and put the snail in that. It would easily survive the trip.