Burying

[Katie]

hello all.
Irony has been buried for 4 days now and hasn't moved at all.
He is 11 months old and in the tank with another 11 month old and a 8 month old snail. He is a Fulica.

Does this mean he could be laying eggs? or what?

i have not seen any breeding activity between them but then again i am not wityh the 24/7 so who knows what they have been up to lol ... They have never bread before as far as i know

The tank is heated and gets sprayed twice a day.

thanks xxx

[Katie]

anyone???

[monday]

Can't say for sure, can you lift the tank up and look underneath? 4 days is quite a while, I'd be tempted to disturb it, just to make sure he's ok.

[coyote]

I don't know about the giant snails, but my small garden snails usually stay buried for 2 days when laying eggs. If I were you, I'd try poking around in that part of the tank to see if I could spot any eggs.

[Katie]

well, i lifted him up, just to make sure he wasn't dead. No eggs that i could see, do they sometimes lay them in a tunnel through the hole then cover them up? He wasn't dead by the way lol

[Rachel]

mabye he just felt like sleeping? my toffee sleeps for days sometimes for no apparent reason, just laziness i guess.

[Katie]

mmm it has been colder recently, perhaps he was just sleepy (i feel guilty for disturbing him now lol)

[Rachel]

don't feel guilty, its best to move them every now and then if they do that and put them on food so they do eat. try raising the tank temp a little.

[Dusk]

I agree, double check the tank temperature - I checked on one of mine today because he'd been dozing longer than usual and he'd begun sealing himself in - the tank setup that worked fine before apparently couldn't cope with the recent temperature drop and it'd gone too low for him. I moved the mat from the outside of the tank to the inside and it seems to be compensating, but now I'm keeping a close eye on all the others just to make sure!