Rimless Tanks and Nerites

[jimroth]

Here's a little observation I made today. The back of my tank is rimless, and today I went to clean behind there...I found a dozen nerites back there who walked right out of my tank onto the carpet to wait for high tide. Oddly enough I was able to revive one by soaking it in SW. The rest, not so much.
I don't know why I didn't figure this out sooner, but rimless tanks and nerites don't mix.

It's a sad sight:

 

[Trevenator]

Yes I found this out the hard way also. Lots of dead ones behind the tank
I tossed the shells back in the tank and my hermit crabs are using them now.

 

[tom499]

I also had 10 or so snails that are now shells and i had a place in my tank for them to get out of the water. They used it but still crawled out so i haven't bought any more. The place i had was a flat piece of live rock i let dry out. I thought it was my water quality they didn't like. Sorry but i feelbetter not being the only one that has had them die on me.

 

[scubasteve06]

My crazy cerith's do the same thing only I have a rim to stop them If I see them there for more than a day expecting the daly lama of high tides to come then I put them back.

 

[SushiGirl]

I had a few Nerites that made it over a rim and onto the carpet. Sometimes you get to them soon enough, sometimes you don't. You could try to provide them a piece of rock that sticks out of the water, but I'm sure they'd still do it on the glass despite your efforts LOL.

 

[robl45]

so if putting a glass top on top of the tank is bad, how do you keep the nerites in the tank? is there a better snail to use for algae?

 

[Fish4Me2]

For some reason my nassarius, when I feed the tank, love to climb up to the top. I had one make it over the rim one day. Once I stopped laughing at it, I pushed it back in. Sorry you weren't there to catch these guys. When we moved to our new place earlier this year and I broke down my tank, I found the body of my poor diamond goby - he must have found the only crevice on the tank not covered by grating, and jumped.

 

[bathompson]

I have a rimmed tank with nerites that do the same thing. I have made it part of my daily routine to check the floor for these guys. I've had about 20 climb out and I throw them back in everytime and have only lost about 5. Sometimes it takes a while to revive one.

 

[username in use]

Yeah, I won't buy them anymore, they just find a way out. Found one half way across the room once, trucking off to who knows where.

 

[uhuru]

Mine are able to last an incredibly long time out of the water, but they do like to climb out of the tank a lot. As long as I catch them the same day they seem to do fine when I put them back in the tank.