u/TheRantingFish

She wears her food as a hat and then goes crazy with it (frozen krill food)

Plop, the mystery snail that had a flesh wound, had passed 2 days ago. I am currently cleaning his shell to hopefully keep in my room cleanly. This is just an update and a tribute to plop.

I want to thank everyone who gave advice, but unfortunately plop just had too many wounds from whatever caused his injuries, he was missing an antenna, an eye and despite showing progress and interest in eating and moving around the tank, eventually passed, he was an older snail, 1.5 years old, and he just didn’t have the strength, I noticed he was putting up his air tube at the bottom of the tank, and even though I picked him up and put him in higher areas, he put his air tube near the top of the water but never siphoned.

Plop lived a very happy life, even though the last week or so he was sick that was probably about 1% of his life in total, he lived 1.5 years of parasnailing, eating a huge variety of gourmet foods for snail like mysis shrimp and krill and more meaty foods like that, along with a huge variety of vegetables, such as carrot, cucumber, broccoli, spinach, zucchini, and that’s only the variety of food I currently remember feeding him, there’s probably much more I don’t remember, not only did he eat all these foods and always parasnailing around waving his antennas happily, he had lots and lots and lots of snail “snex” with many female mystery snails. Im going to remember him for this, not for his last probably 2 weeks he was trying to recover. I’m sure he’s having all these luxury’s and more in whatever version of heaven there is for snails.

I noticed this morning pye here was laying eggs at the bottom of the lid, I didn’t want to interrupt her so I went to eat breakfast, I remembered that she was at the top an hour or two later and This girl was upside down for hours, she was laying and barely hanging on, so I had to get the lid open for her so her mantle didn’t get damaged and she’s laying right in front of me!

I’m sure you noticed the clefts and I’m taking action to make sure she will be okay, I’m going to move her and the other female with her to another tank that’s being cycled, or donation if something goes wrong.