Mexican Turbo Question...

[artkwan]

Hi all - just saw something so strange earlier. I saw that one of my larger Mexican Turbo snails had divorced his shell and was suckling along the glass like nothing happened.
The questions I have are
1) is this a variation of normal
2) does this happen in the wild
3) could this have anything with my specific tank / parameters, etc.
4) What do I do to rectify this
5) If I don't do anything about it, will it attempt to grow a new casing?


Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Betta132]

Not normal. A snail's body is fixed inside its shell, it's only supposed to grow the edge of its shell to enlarge it. Make sure none of your fish can get at it, they'll eat it.
I'm not sure why this happened, but I think I've seen a couple of other cases.
Maybe keep it somewhere with only small fish? It's vulnerable and won't be able to regrow a shell. Trying to put it back in the shell will probably just hurt it.

 

[artkwan]

looks like this is going to go into the refugium...

 

[Calappidae]

That is disgustingly cool.

No clue what is going on there, have any hermits?

 

[artkwan]

I have but 3 or 4 hermits, but aren't they opportunists, meaning they'll kill the snail prior to taking over the shell?

That is disgustingly cool.

No clue what is going on there, have any hermits?

 

[Calappidae]

As long as the snail gets out of the home. They weren't hungry just needed to rent a place. Although I don't know how this snail isn't getting beat up on rock work or even glass hurting it.

Keep us updated on that guy this is interesting.