Fish Capacity & Dying Snails

[Irishman360]

So for the past week I have had three snails die on me. Two of them were about a month into my tank, and I currently bought 3 more on Thursday and one of them is dead now. I've read on here that they die for no reason. Just trying to get other opinions or reasonings for this.

Second is how much fish could I fit in my tank. I know with FW you can have room for 1" per gallon and that would be the full grown size you take into account. Any ideas on this as well?

 

[CStrickland]

I don't think anything dies for no reason. Snails can die for a few reasons even if the water quality is fine, old age, some can't flip over if they land on their backs and starve there, hermits kill them for the shells or just funsies, some types of dino have poison...

SW doesn't have an inches per gallon rule, it depends on personality a lot more. What kind of fish appeal to you, do you have any favs yet?

 

[Dayson]

How many fish greatly depends on the kind of fish...Impossible question to answer. Your overstocked when your bio load is to high or fish start killing each other. However, the goal is to not get to that point.

 

[gone fishin]

Stocking a marine tank is as much an art form as it science. Behavior, food niche, swimming area ex: top or bottom, individual personality, shape, color.

As CStrickland pointed out could be any number of reasons your snails died

 

[tehpineapple]

A good question is what kind of snails? I know The large Turbo Snails require a large amount of algae to survive. I loaded my 24g with 4 turbos (rookie mistake) and a large mixture of other snails and all 4 died within about a month while the rest survived just fine. I'm almost positive that they starved to death.

Also, proper acclimation is very important. I purchased 3 trochus on Saturday and accidentally added too much of my tanks water while acclimating and only 1 of them made it.

Other than that, I'd say CStrickland pretty much covered it.

 

[jml1149]

Agree acclimating snails is key to success

 

[CStrickland]

I don't drip snails, just match temp and toss them in.
Tidal snails are adapted to wide changes in temp and salinity. If they are shipped, it's best to get them out of the bag asap cause ammonia that's built up in there will kill them faster than anything else. Long drips expose them to that without much added benefit.

So yeah, if you did a long trip acclimation that'd do it. I figured 3-4 snails is a trip to the lfs

 

[Irishman360]

I don't think anything dies for no reason. Snails can die for a few reasons even if the water quality is fine, old age, some can't flip over if they land on their backs and starve there, hermits kill them for the shells or just funsies, some types of dino have poison...

SW doesn't have an inches per gallon rule, it depends on personality a lot more. What kind of fish appeal to you, do you have any favs yet?

As far as favorite ones, no I do not have one. I do really like my six line though. The colors and pattern it has really amazes me, it is really active as well which is great. The snail was tipped over on the sand bed for a bit but my wife put it on a rock and I guess it just died there. I noticed today that it was really dead since the hermits were going for it so I scooped it up and poked it a couple of times and no movement.

A good question is what kind of snails?

It was red stripe trochous. I know The large Turbo Snails require a large amount of algae to survive. I loaded my 24g with 4 turbos (rookie mistake) and a large mixture of other snails and all 4 died within about a month while the rest survived just fine. I'm almost positive that they starved to death.

I could have starved them. My tank didn't grow any algae and was ghost feeding it every other day or so, so nothing would starve. My tank didn't get a lot of sunlight and I just recently put a kessil light on it.

I acclimated the snails by drip acclimation for about 15-20 minutes as well.

Also, proper acclimation is very important. I purchased 3 trochus on Saturday and accidentally added too much of my tanks water while acclimating and only 1 of them made it.

Other than that, I'd say CStrickland pretty much covered it.

 

[borg]

I read on here a while ago for snails to put them on water line and let them attach to glass , then let them enter water at their pleasure worked for last 2 trochus i got for tank