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    Posted: January 15 2004 at 8:56am
I bought a handful of margarita snails from Bird World the other day.  Every night I notice that a few of them have fallen from the rockwork and look to be saying "I've fallen and I can't get up".  Did I just get clumsy snails or are margarita's just bad climbers?  They don't appear to be able to right themselves either.  Just curious...
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I thought Margarita snails could right themselves?  Are they the black snails that are kind of rounded?
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Yes.  With a black foot.  I haven't witnessed a single one right itself.
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hhmmm... that sucks.
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I had the same problem. Once they were on their backs, the hermit crabs would attack. I had to save several live snails from attack and then flip them over.

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Sorry to hear you got a batch of stressed snails. I suspect they were very weak from hunger. How long had BWPV had them? How much were they?

Snails seem okay for a long time, but we cannot see how stressed they may be. Herbivores have to eat a lot of plant matter every day just to get enough energy to survive. A week without much food is pretty hard on them.

It might help to place them in a tank with lots of easy algae (your cyanobacteria) so they can regain their strength, before they have to go into a relatively clean tank. We typically ask snails to work hard for their food or else go hungry in order to keep our tanks as algae free as we would like.

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At the time I purchased them there was an abundance of alage in my tank.  Although they have done a good job reducing it, there still is enough food for what I have, imo.  I'm not sure how long BW had them.  They were $1 each.  Maybe they were just weak from nothing to eat at BW?  The ones I could reach seemed to attach to rock just fine if I picked them up.  The ones I couldn't reach have appeared to die .

I also bought a few of those large mexican turbos.  WOW if it wasn't for their bulldozer additude, I think they'd be a big winner!  They eat more then any snail I've ever had.
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