Those Flippin' Astraea Snails

[messiah023]

It seems over the past week or so, I have found my Astraea snails upside down on the sand bed. I find myself flipping them over much more often than normal....
I would understand if I were say......dosing my tank with vodka...but they find themselves passed out on the sand for no reason.

How often do you guys have to do this?

 

[Alexander]

has anything changed in your setup at all since it started happening? like even with the way you are doing things?

 

[messiah023]

No change....
I haven't added any livestock, rocks, corals, anything for 6-months.
Everything is growing (like weeds)....just those snails flipping over!

I have other snails in the tank doing fine.
It seems like this is just a few of the 6 astraea are topsy-turvy.

You ever experience this with your snails?
I know sometimes the turbos will fall and land upside down, but I experience it very rarely.

 

[Altohombre]

mine do this all the time and then they die on their own or my nassarius snails get to them. Haven't figured out what there deal is yet.

 

[RAYRAY]

I have 5 or 6 of them and haven't had them flip over yet. Sometimes my nassarius snail even take a free ride on their backs.

 

[Oscarsdad608]

All of your snails are probably falling and flipping over. The asterias just can't flip themselves back over as easy.

 

[Altohombre]

I have 5 or 6 of them and haven't had them flip over yet. Sometimes my nassarius snail even take a free ride on their backs.

do you have small nassarious snails cuz the ones I have are like an inch long and take up the whole astraea shell if they would ride on it. lol!

 

[yote]

Thats why I hate snails.

 

[parrotchute]

I try only to get self righting snails because of that. My dumb ass cerith snails keep climbing the glass, falling, and can't get up. I need to get them one of those pendants for old people. I now have 2 micro hermits who have cerith snail homes because of it!

My trochus snails are machines, and can flip themselves back up.

 

[Oscarsdad608]

At the lfs I ask them to knock each snail off the glass so I can see if it can flip itself over.