Post by peas on Feb 1, 2017 2:33:42 GMT
Hi, I have a bit of a concern about one of my GALS. I keep two A. Fulica in the same tank, one is behaving normally, eating cuttlefish, food, being active before I've gone to bed has a decent band of fresh yellow growth to show it's still growing. The other was like this too until about a week or so ago.
This snail sleeps through most of the night as I'm awake until 3am and see no activity and they either haven't moved when I wake up or if they have it's not been long that they've been awake for. The fresh yellow band growth is almost gone. They're never on the cuttlefish. But they will come out if I spray them and may stay up for like an hour or so, which I managed to coax it to eat a bit of mushroom for like 2 minutes before it went back to sleep.
One thing that I think could be it is that I have way too many springtails, they're often on the snails shells and under the rim or on the mantle, and occasionally on the foot. These *are* springtails and not mites like in the previous post as they're springtails I seeded into the tank and are also on the walls and floor, they have beyond exploded which is something I'd like to solve too but not really sure how. So I'm thinking it could be stressing this snail out too much since it must be really annoying to have all these little bugs running on you, but the other doesn't seem to care.
Another thing is that I added leaf litter by way of oak leaves from dartfrog.co.uk in there recently but I'm not sure if it was before or after the slow decline started. But I dunno why oak leaves would stop it doing stuff.
I doubt it's the environment like humidity and temperature as both are fine and the other snail again has no issues with them.
Any ideas?
This snail sleeps through most of the night as I'm awake until 3am and see no activity and they either haven't moved when I wake up or if they have it's not been long that they've been awake for. The fresh yellow band growth is almost gone. They're never on the cuttlefish. But they will come out if I spray them and may stay up for like an hour or so, which I managed to coax it to eat a bit of mushroom for like 2 minutes before it went back to sleep.
One thing that I think could be it is that I have way too many springtails, they're often on the snails shells and under the rim or on the mantle, and occasionally on the foot. These *are* springtails and not mites like in the previous post as they're springtails I seeded into the tank and are also on the walls and floor, they have beyond exploded which is something I'd like to solve too but not really sure how. So I'm thinking it could be stressing this snail out too much since it must be really annoying to have all these little bugs running on you, but the other doesn't seem to care.
Another thing is that I added leaf litter by way of oak leaves from dartfrog.co.uk in there recently but I'm not sure if it was before or after the slow decline started. But I dunno why oak leaves would stop it doing stuff.
I doubt it's the environment like humidity and temperature as both are fine and the other snail again has no issues with them.
Any ideas?
