Leopard Nerite commits Harry Caray

[Waterfroggy]

I found one of my two Lepard Nerite snails on the filing cabinet next to the tank today. He somehow crawled out and died in my northern dry climate air.

The other one is nowhere to be found.

Unless you have a tank that is part in and part out of the water and fully contained, perhaps they are not suitable I think. They were usually on under the tank hood, I should have known.

Word to the newly wise.

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[Brhino]

have you checked your water parameters? snails escaping is sometimes an indicator of poor water quality.

[toddnbecka]

Nerites are notorious for going over the wall if the opportunity exists, regardless of water quality. Spiny eels and marbled hatchet fish too for that matter.

[Waterfroggy]

Yah, I just tested and all is good. They used to hang out under the hood, so I guess I should have put the tape back on the intake and outake holes. =[

The hardest part of this hobby is that the little mistakes result in death! Grrr...I don't like that part.

RIP Mr. Snail.

On a happier note, I just got 4 new baby African Dwarf Frogs, one has a bum let that apparently is growing back from being cut off, according to the LFS expert - they do that, pretty cool. Will be interesting to watch.

He'll fit right in around here with our one-eyed cat, bum eyed chinchilla and ancient great dane!

Thanks guys.