Mopey Mystery snail with gray fuzz

[Suda Nim]

My normally very active Mystery snail is moping on the bottom of the tank this morning. It's moving slightly (at one point it snapped its operculum closed), so I know it's alive.

But it's mostly staying still with the trap half-open, and this grayish fuzzy-gelatinous-looking stuff on its foot:



Help?

Parameters: 78 degrees, pH 6.2, ammonia .25, nitrite 0, nitrates 0.

(The pH has been gradually dropping over the last few weeks, but no sudden changes. The ammonia rise happened since yesterday.)

[Joonkun]

looks like some bacterial thing to me =/ dont much about snails though.

[imma24]

What's in your tank besides the snail? With slight ammonia & no nitrates I am assuming your tank isn't cycled yet? Maybe the ammonia is affecting it?

[Suda Nim]

The only other occupant is a betta. It's a 5-gallon tank, which was cycled, but I switched filters a few days ago (from a Tetra Whisper to AC20).

I transferred the Biomax beads from the old to new filter. I'm probably having a mini-cycle. I'll be doing a water change in about an hour.

The snail has started moving around, but not at its normal pace (which is pretty impressive, for a snail).

[Brhino]

my mystery snails would occasionally leave something that looked like that on the driftwood. No idea what it was. If it was a pond snail or something I'd say it was eggs, but mystery snail eggs don't look anything like that.

[Suda Nim]

Little Ronnie Jeremy seems to be fine now.

[snailetta]

I was having some problems awhile back with my snails and they were doing this same thing. I was told they were reacting to an irritant in the water. Unfortunately mine didn't fare as well as yours. Glad yours is back to normal now. He looks a lot like one of mine. :)