Thanks for being here with me! I appreciate you all and truly hope you NEVER encounter these Snail Leeches if you have a brood of snails that you love dearly. I look forward to being here with you all a lot more here in the near future. I do hope this video finds you all well and snail leech free! 🐌💜
Lav, I love your content. It’s helped me so much in raising my snails. It breaks my heart to learn what you’ve been through. I’m curious if you’ll procure more adult snails to replenish your decimated population, or just wait until the current babies grow up and replenish the population on their own.
Hi, Lavnyia, my name is Aiki. Your videos helped me tremendously when I began snailkeeping. My magenta and blue mysteries recently had babies. When they’re old enough, I’d be more than happy to send you some of the babies, free of charge! I’m so sorry about your snails. That’s truly devastating. The babies I have are magenta and purple, and I would be more than happy to ship some to you.
Yeah, I just started breeding the minor just probably two weeks old babies and they’re doing pretty good but if you need snails, I’ll send you some too
I’m so sorry that this happened to you and your snails!! Your videos helped give me the confidence & knowledge to start breeding mystery snails and I totally credit you for helping me succeed. Your videos gave me so much great information to help me get started and I’ve had so many successful hatches as a result. I can’t imagine how difficult it was to experience and also have the pressure of letting your audience know. So happy to see you're back!! 🐌
Wow, this is a huge eye opener for me! I have just started owning Mystery snails, and you have taught me never to bring anything home from a pond. What a horrible experience, and I am so very sorry for what has happened.
I just started a new 10 gallon snail tank after not having one for many years. I now have 1 betta and 3 golden snails and all of them are doing great!! Thanks for your videos!
Sorry to hear about your snaily friends! I've lost a couple of my large Pomacea Canaliculata snails recently, it's heartbreaking. Especially since they were literally the size of apples!
Welcome back Lav! If it weren’t for struggling we would never become the person we were meant to be. There is something greater at work here. Call it what you will, The universe, God, etc. but make no mistake we are all a work in progress and we ain’t done until we’re done. Embrace the suck in all of its mystery and trust the process ❤😊
Lav, my heart aches for you and all your poor sweet baby snails. I can’t imagine losing that many so quickly! I totally get disappearing from the internet while dealing with something like that. So awful. Anyway, sending hugs to you (and all your little snail babies)! DEATH TO LEECHES!
Lav I am so sorry!! 💔🥺 that’s absolutely awful and one’s true nightmare. I can’t imagine losing one let alone all of your babies. I am so heartbroken for you. Thank you for sharing what happened, I know it probably wasn’t easy but you are very strong to share. it’s good to know that can happen. 2023 will be so much better and you’re gonna have so much room for new creativity and I wish you all the success! I look foward to continue to grow with you Lav 💜
Hi Lav, I have really enjoyed your videos and keep coming back to this one. Im very sorry for your loss. The gentleman who brought up the Reverse Respiration - I have read thru a bit of that but I wondered if you found an explanation that is in layman’s terms! I have several new plants coming and I have a few young adult snails in my tank so I’m a bit nervous. I ordered some plants through Amazon. I read through your comments last night and it seems one person had this happen with plants from Amazon. If there is one person, there are more. I want to do this to my plants when they come. Is it correct in saying, place the entire plant in seltzer water, use something to hold it down, then place the plant in a dark location, and for how long? 72 hours? Please get back to me. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would very much want to take this precaution. Thank you in advance for your time. I have a 37 gal tank with 2 large chocolate snails and 2 young but growing very fast baby blues and I would very much like to order some magentas or violets from you when you’re ready!
This is awful Lav! I know how heartbreaking it is to lose one snail! But 8 tanks of your beloved snails! That’s just overwhelming and terrible! I’m so glad you posted this video. I didn’t even know such things existed. It was highly educational and I immediately ran to my 5 snail tanks with a magnifying glass to check each one to make sure I didn’t see any of these little nasties anywhere. We are all here to learn from each other. It’s important to know all the bad things w/ the good ones. My heart aches for you. I’m so glad you have returned! I look so forward to your post! I was reading a journal article from a retired professor doing a mystery snail genetics experiment. Maybe you’ve ran across it before. He mentioned that most Mystery snails were female and you rarely get males. I was wondering in your experience if this statement was true?
I just found your channel last month and was sad to see that there were no recent videos. I have enjoyed your content and wanted more ✨️ So happy my mystery snails and I have you back to teach us all the snaily things 🐌 I wish healthy thoughts to you and your snails babies! 🌿
Missed you!!! I was worried when you disappeared. I loved my snails I got from you! Please don’t feel embarrassed. This hobby can bring so much happiness yet rip our hearts out! I too have experienced a huge loss with fish I had for several years due to something that shouldn’t have happened but did so I feel responsible for their lost lives. I was physically sick. So please don’t hide under a rock! All my mystery snails have passed to just as you described yours! I have done nothing to my mystery snail tank as well except it running. I didn’t know what happened but it was just as you described! So you have taught me something as I had no idea why they slowly quit moving. Now I can know what to look for! I can’t wait to start over as I miss them! Luv u Lav!!!!!! So so happy you are back!!!!
Hey Lav. I've been keeping my snail shells ever since I had my first snail. I've never had great luck with mystery snails and my first attempt at hatching, I hatched 3 clutches but only 6-7 lived long and 4 remain now. One of those 4 had babies, and _that_ clutch was a great success, and I have 84 bigger babies and a bunch of little ones left over. Generation 3! I'm sorry for what happened to your snails, but I am happy to see someone else who is also really into them. I've also had a lot of difficulties with my tanks lately, and I'm sorry you are too. But it is nice to see people overcoming these issues, because it helps me hope I will be able to as well. I also think I will get some guppies for my snail tanks... I really like what you've got going on there. I was already considering guppies but this has only solidified that decision for me! Long live the snail armies! ❤ God bless you and your pets.
Happy to hear you and have you back. Your videos have been missed. ❤ Just got back into these beauties again when I had my single MS lay a top secret clutch, and when the babies hatched out it was a complete surprise and I had so many survivors! Why oh why did I give all my calcium tabs away… lol
@@LavsSnails good idea! Also I have some juvenile purples and when I get some clutches I’d be happy to send them your way if you want some help rebuilding your babies. As fast as they’re growing it might only be a couple months till they start doing the horizontal bop 🤣
Lav I'm so very sorry for what happened! I hate that you are blaming yourself! You obviously love your snails and would never knowingly put them at risk!!!! There is a lot of information out there about bringing things in from ponds etc and that it's good for ur tank. I think that they are forgetting that some tanks contain life that can be absolutely decimated from following this advice! I had no idea about snail leeches until I saw this video. U saved me from making this same mistake by posting this and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I could of been in this exact situation if it wasn't for you and ur content. Please come back and continue your work! You have been such a wealth of knowledge and are a big reason why my snails are thriving. There isn't much info about mystery snail care beyond the basic care sheet so please continue your work here! We need u back! All my luv, Tawni
Don't be embarassed, and I am so heartbroken for you. 😭 I started keeping Mystery Snails on accident late Feb with just two in my goldfish tank (I say accident because I thought they'd be a cleanup crew and not the kept mistresses and misters they are) but I loved them so much I have a whole seperate tank just for them and have not two but 8! I have incubated, hatched, and am in my first 3 weeks of raising my first 3 clutches all on YOUR videos alone! So glad you're back and happy to see new content and have an opportunity to interact with you. We call you "Snail Mother" at our house.😂
🥺 I appreciate you and this comment so very much. Thank you so very much. Please hug your snails for me, and then turn, and give yourself a giant snail hug from me. You've made my day. Thank you 🐌💜 and thank you for being here with me.
You are hilarious!! I was scared because I'm just starting my mystery snail endeavor. I have been watching all of your videos and taking notes!! I'm glad you are back!!!
So sorry for your loss! That’s heartbreaking!! Thanks for sharing and welcome back. I accidentally have gold mystery snails….thought my girl was laying duds since she had several times before. Wrong! Now I have over 70!! All healthy and growing…amazingly. Now what?! Anybody want them? They’re cute but I don’t have the space for them as I’m a nano tanker. I’m in the US in the mid Atlantic. Help!
GOOD TO BE BACK! SO VERY SORRY I WORRIED YOU💜! I APPRECIATE YOU FOR CHECKING IN! SHOUTING IS OKAY AND NEEDED SOMETIMES😆! THANKS FOR HANGING IN THERE WITH ME!!🐌💜
I'm so sorry to hear that this happened to your snails Lav. Each one was so cherished. Thank you for taking the time to document this, now I know that this can happen!!!
Oh, dear God. I’ve never heard of snail leeches! Thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry this happened to you! I cry when my snails simply die of old age. I’m sure it was horrifying to lose so many of them. I only have a 10 gallon tank, so I usually just have 2 at a time. My previous pair of albinos just passed away. Today I received a pair of beautiful magentas. One has shell damage, and I came to find your video of how to repair a broken shell and saw this video. 💔. EDIT: I will be quarantining these 2 until I’m sure nothing hitchhiked 😮
I jumped for joy seeing that you posted a video and I immediately watched it to then cry for what you've been dealing with for the last almost year. I am so sorry you had to go through that nightmare. I'm gutted for all the pain and loss you've dealt with. I have never heard of snail leeches until now and I hope I never have to. 😱🥺 I'm thrilled you are back because I sure have missed seeing your videos and posts. Welcome back!!! Cheers to 2023 being a better year for you.🐌💜
So glad you are back! I also very recently found your channel and binge watched every single video…and then realized there weren’t any new ones! I had searched the internet to try and find you but it’s like you didn’t exist anymore. Very excited for any new content, what you have already produced has been incredibly helpful! My snails have better lives because of you 😊
i was in northern minnesota last spring and came across a lot of huge invasive snails in a lake-and they had snail leeches on them when i took a closer look. sorry about the losses. glad to have you back
Thank you for this very informative video. I had no idea! I have been batteling limpets. Probably got them same way you did. While they are truley a pest, at least they are not deadly. So glad you are back. God bless! 👵
Thank you for sharing this information on snail leeches and I am so sorry you had to experience this first hand! 😢 With or without snails, you are still THE snail queen of the east coast 🐌
Finally a new video! Sorry about the leaches, hope your snails get better. I absolutely love mystery and apple snails. I'm so sorry about the leeches. The snails are awesome.
Hi Lav - Thank you for sharing your challenges. I began keeping stuff in aquariums during Covid. Your videos taught me a lot about our favorite snails, and I look forward to more. I had an infestation of little things in a three gallon planted aquarium. Nothing seemed to get rid of them. Until I added a goldfish. At the beginning, I put some water in a ten gallon tank with a sponge filter. The tank sat empty for a few days so I figured it needed a fish. I bought two feeder goldfish at Petsmart for less than a dollar. These goldfish may very well be magic. They lived through some pretty nasty water while I learned about the nitrogen cycle. Back to snails, the rather large goldfish quickly ate everything edible in the tank, ruined a bunch of plants, and disturbed the hardscape. After a week, no squiggly things, or duckweed! One of the things I have learned about this hobby, everything gets eaten at some point. BTW - absolutely love your snello recipe.
Oh, and I got to the end of the video I was so sad he had such a beautiful set up. That’s heartbreaking. I know I had one snail in the beginning when it first started what it was too high and it climbed up and fell onto the floor and it broke. I was really sad but I see you’re not here again for two months. I hope you’re OK and I hope your tanks are OK.🐌🐌 It’s pretty sad. 🥲
Lavinia!!!! Soooooo happy you're back!!! Very sorry to hear about the leech problem - terribly sad as it's quite obvious you absolutely love your snails. I've learned a lot watching your videos, and it's so good you're back!!! Part of learning is failure. You'll be back better than ever!!!!
Lav, so good to see you back! I love your videos and have shared them with so many snail lovers. It breaks my heart to hear what you’ve been through 🥲. I hope the comeback will work out great and am looking forward to lots of videos from you. Just have to ask, in the frame with the new baby snail, there are two things in the background that look like the leeches you showed -I sure hope not, but please check :-)
Thank you for your concern. They are just normal very tiny detritus worms though. You may notice they glide when moving instead of the "inchworm" style a leech moves. Trust me...there are no leeches in that tank. But thanks 💜 good looking out! 🐌💜
Wow Lav, So very sorry to hear this!! I can’t imagine what you went though. Just letting you know your videos have helped me tremendously and my 4 mystery snails thank you! Hope you keep going with your snail business because you’re fantastic!!! Kind regards, Carrol!
I feel ya girl. I’ve got leeches in my female tank. In the process of setting up a temp tank to move the snails & shrimp to do I can destroy their current tank and start over. So devastating
Im sorry you lost your snail's 😢 I find your video's super helpful in my apple/mystery snail journey. Unfortunately I found leeches in my tank and currently researching how to treat .... dont hold out much hope - but wish me luck
I don't know what to say. Don't beat yourself up, no good comes of that. Other people on TH-cam put stuff in their tanks from the outside. Father fish says to get a bucket water from a pond or stream with lots or organisms to start a tank as part of his directions. He's been doing this for 40 years. I would like to tell you that you helped me through the pandemic. I had a hard time, my mother had just died after Parkinson/Parkinsonia dementia. I was realling from the downward spiral, trying HARD to pick myself up when the pandemic hit. I got down. I used to listen and learn from your videos. Your voice is calming and you are so positive, encouraging and creative. I would listen to your videos even after I had the information down. I liked listening to the videos with snails and music. That was so thoughtful of you to post that. Now, I have mystery snails. I even let a clutch hatch and I knew what to do because of you 💜 Find peace Lav. You aren't perfect, you don't need to be. You've helped a lot of people. I thank you✌🏼
I AM SAD ABOUT THE SNAILS DEATHS AND IM ALSO SAD ABOUT THE LEECHES DEATHS DUE TO THE REASON THAT THEY ALSO WANTED TO LIVE IN THE WAY NATURE MADE THEM . WELL , IM ALSO UNDERSTAND ABOUT TIMES WHEN THE SITUATION ACTUALLY IS DIFFERENT FROM HOW WE WANT IT TO BE . MANY TIMES THE SITUATION WE EXPERIENCE IS NOT COMFORTABLE , SO WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE IT AS COMFORTABLE AS WE CAN AND SOMETIMES WE MURDERING THE LIFE WE DONT WANT SO THE LIFE WE DO WANT WILL LIVE . IM ALSO GILLTY :/ AND I SAD ABOUT IT !!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE :) WE DID A THUMB-UP ABOUT THE VIDEO AND SUBSCRIBED TO THE CHANNEL :) THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
Oh Lav, I am so happy you’re back! And so heartbroken for all of your beautiful babies. I was tempted to pick something out of the creek the other day, and after seeing this video, I will be sure not to do that!
Oh I forgot to add that many years ago when I was new to the hobby I became interested in dwarf water lettuce and got some from a person with a koi pond. It was a major mistake and introduced almost every imaginable killing pest into my first two tanks, they had to be torn down and I also watched everything die and used many of the things you used to try and kill them. I think new hobbyists should be educated about this. It is such a heartbreaking experience
Welcome back!!! You have been missed more than you know!!! ❤❤❤ I am so sorry that this happened to you! I can’t believe it!!! Absolutely devastating! Us snail people stand behind you!!!
So so sorry to hear about your snails! Your videos helped me learn so much about snail keeping and I am glad you are back and hopefully your snails will be soon too.
Well that's horrifying :( I feel like at that point, and I know very well how stupidly expensive it would be, but at that point it feels like the right thing to do is throw everything out and start over with all new tanks, filters, heaters, everything. I would be too paranoid about having missed something somewhere and having it happen all over again just as soon as things started to look like they were back on track. Heck, I have a tank I just finished using as a hospital tank for my betta fish where I used copper sulfate in it (betta is doing great now!), and now I won't use that tank for any other purpose other than a QT tank where copper treatment is called for. I wouldn't want to put anything that is copper sensitive into that tank no matter how many times I clean and rinse it. And that's a pretty mild thing to contend with on the scale of aquarium trouble, as even copper sensitive critters do require at least trace amounts of copper as most living things do, but I won't risk that tank regardless. It is a dedicated copper-treatment only tank from now on. And that means the filter and heater and substrate and silk plants that are in it are also all now 100% dedicated to that tank and that use, and I will never risk using any of those things in any other tank. That's about $100 of kit that is now dedicated to one, infrequently needed purpose. Obviously not a very large tank, as a large tank alone could cost well over $100, and the other kit needed is hundreds more, so that does get very expensive indeed to replace even just one tank, much less eight, but it is more expensive to lose all the snails again when you discover that you missed cleaning one tiny spot in one corner of one filter. No good options at that point :(
I have a question. I have my first batch of snail babies. They have been in a breeding container. I set up a 20 gallon tank just for snail. How can I transfer my baby snail to there for ever home? Thank you for all of your videos. They have helped me and now I have my own baby snails. They are Ivory (White).
I'm new to snails in an aquarium I have had a few fatalities but in all doing ok , I didn't even know that snail leeches existed it has scared me now I'll be looking even more closer. I'm sorry about your snails it must be awful I got upset with the ones i lost how awful loosing all of them I hope you have got on control of the nasty things and can start again with your baby snails. Good luck.
I had this issue. I no longer get anything from ponds either. I can't tell you how much time I spent on fighting the problem. Everything I have now is completely new and nothing is from my old tanks. I saw them demolish my favorite tank in under a week.
my new mystery snail has completely left its shell. still moving around and eating. is there a way to help him back in shell? it had a few chubby white worms hanging around when it first dropped off - not sure if they are leeeches
This is the stuff nightmares are made of. I'm so sorry, Lav. dasaltemelosguy from aquarium co op forum did some (a lot of) research and experiments and found that soaking plants in the dark in seltzer water (has to say "seltzer water", it's not "sparkling water" etc) in the dark, for 12 hours, kills basically anything. This process is called Reverse Respiration. Carbon dioxide benefits the plants, but since there's no oxygen for anything else, the other life forms/bacteria/planaria, etc die. We use silverware on top of the plants to weigh them down while they are soaking, so we can be sure they stay submerged. Note: delicate plants such as guppygrass can only be submerged in the seltzer water for 2 hours max. A microscope was used to confirm death of the organisms.
This is BRILLIANT information!! Thank you very much for sharing it with me! I will look for that video and utilize that method for SURE for plants in the future. Thanks, I appreciate it. 🐌💜
@@LavsSnails I’m afraid there’s no video on it. Just a bunch of research. It is posted on the aquarium co op CARE forum. If you type Reverse Respiration in the search bar of the forum it will come up. A bunch of people tested it and reported their results also. I keep seeing videos about how things from ponds (old leaves etc) are great for fish tanks, but after seeing the horror in this video I’m NOT doing it! Ps I hatched 2 clutches in Spring of last year. They were so cute! I kept some and some were adopted to local hobbyist with a little care sheet and some crab cuisine and cuttlebone ❤️🐌
So sorry about all your babies!! Thank you for posting this though! One of my tanks kills every snail I put in there and it's just like you said they just stop moving and then die. I am wondering if this is what is happening and my beta fish is just fast enough to eat most of them 🤔
Perhaps! Look at the rim of the water line and along the swirls of the snail, leeches will also hide behind the Opurculum "hinge." Oh gosh, I hope you don't have them! Best of luck! And thank you 💜
Found some of these in my aquarium in South Australia after buying some plants, one I found the next day the next one I found many months after both captured now separated and I keep them in small aquarium I find them cool they already have some eggs
I just bought my first mystery snail from pet co and 5 min after being in my tank i saw a small leach.... 😢 did my snail bring something from the store? Is all hope lost? Honest please 🙏
I’m so sorry. That’s just awful. I realize this video is over 5 months old- I hope your tanks are all doing a thousand percent better!- i have ivory mystery smails- These things beeed like rabbits! too many to be honest. Could I send you some? Any snail living with you would be a lucky snail! I live in Los Angeles CA and it’s been horribly hot… I just worry about shipping- ?
Hey Lavinia!!! Just checking in on ya - I hope you're doing well. I wanted to share something with you - I finally have snabies!!!!! Thought you could use some good news 😊
Hi Lav. I am so sorry about your babies!! Welcome back! Have you ever attempted to fix an operculum? I have one that is actually bent on one side. I have no idea how this happened, but it is sticking out at a right angle. Should I clip it so that it can grow back? She cannot close her operculum and so is exposed, poor thing. Thoughts?
Ohh I am sorry to hear that and VERY sorry for the late reply. How did she end up making out? And to answer, no I have never had to repair an operculum. Again I know this comment was left months ago, BUT I usually list leave that operculem alone if they can close up. I hope all turned out okay, Or at least, as good as it could have 🐌💜
@@LavsSnails Alas, she didn’t last very long without her full operculum, poor lamb. Thank you for your reply! And by the way, I have used your nail file technique for damaged shells and it has worked beautifully! Never would have been able to do it without your advice. Thank you for all of your inspirational and insightful guidance❤️
Hi,there 😊 I just got some for my tetra community tank and one serpae tetra tagged my gold mystery snail and he or she is not coming out for three days now. I tried coaching it out by doing the wet wash cloth method, no luck. I have moved it to my guppy tank and still no luck. I know it's still alive because it opens up time to time but not coming out. What can I do? Please help 🙏...
Omg! I’m currently having a snail leech crisis, please tell me the starve them out method works. I don’t keep snails but was letting some pest snails run rampant (they were keeping the tank clean) now I have no snails and all leeches and it’s so gross and weird
❤. Ive nuke my aquascape with bleach and salt watch them died. And never start the aquarium set up again. Ive watched them eat little snail. So, before i started again, i need to find the best ways to rid the leeches. This video is very helpfull. Have you tried the kuhli loach fish? I heard that, it can clean the planaria. But i dont know if they can eat leach snail also. Hope your the best for your snail thanks ok. Thanks
I'm so sorry I cryed my eyes out my heart aches for you. I have a snail that I really need help with ,could I please send pictures of Shelly the snaily . My first snail and our goldfish bit her and broke her shell I have had her in a glass bowl for about 6or7 months in spring water .been keeping a cuttle bone in there with her I have seen her eating it her shell seems to be disintegrating, could you please help me fix my girl she also started having this clear slimy that has black dots in it.im not sure what to do.im going to do the egg yoke and green beans I will pick up some Knox when I go to the store. I'm so glad I found your videos you give me hope that I can help her what happens. To the egg shell repair does it fall off or is it absorbed by the snail my girl needs a repair for sure. I was taking the cuddle bone and scraping the power right on the crack , and filling it in with it .idk just don't want snaily to be in pain or anything,I will send pictures if that's okay maby you could tell what I need to do thank you for your time and Shelly the snaily says thank you too
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Thanks for being here with me! I appreciate you all and truly hope you NEVER encounter these Snail Leeches if you have a brood of snails that you love dearly. I look forward to being here with you all a lot more here in the near future. I do hope this video finds you all well and snail leech free! 🐌💜
Lav, I love your content. It’s helped me so much in raising my snails. It breaks my heart to learn what you’ve been through. I’m curious if you’ll procure more adult snails to replenish your decimated population, or just wait until the current babies grow up and replenish the population on their own.
Another mogambo? 😂
Hi, Lavnyia, my name is Aiki. Your videos helped me tremendously when I began snailkeeping. My magenta and blue mysteries recently had babies. When they’re old enough, I’d be more than happy to send you some of the babies, free of charge!
I’m so sorry about your snails. That’s truly devastating. The babies I have are magenta and purple, and I would be more than happy to ship some to you.
Me too! I got into breeding mystery snails because I saw your videos and I used every single one for guidance. Please let me know if you'd like some.
Yeah, I just started breeding the minor just probably two weeks old babies and they’re doing pretty good but if you need snails, I’ll send you some too
As a snail mom of a little over 80, I'm so so sorry for your loss😩😩 best of luck to you and yours🖤🖤
I’m so sorry that this happened to you and your snails!! Your videos helped give me the confidence & knowledge to start breeding mystery snails and I totally credit you for helping me succeed. Your videos gave me so much great information to help me get started and I’ve had so many successful hatches as a result. I can’t imagine how difficult it was to experience and also have the pressure of letting your audience know. So happy to see you're back!! 🐌
I appreciate this very much. Thank you 💜 & please give your brood a hug from me 💜🐌💜
Wow, this is a huge eye opener for me! I have just started owning Mystery snails, and you have taught me never to bring anything home from a pond. What a horrible experience, and I am so very sorry for what has happened.
I just started a new 10 gallon snail tank after not having one for many years. I now have 1 betta and 3 golden snails and all of them are doing great!! Thanks for your videos!
Sorry to hear about your snaily friends!
I've lost a couple of my large Pomacea Canaliculata snails recently, it's heartbreaking. Especially since they were literally the size of apples!
Nightmare fuel! IM so sorry! You did a great job being honest and reflective. I hope your bebe snails grow to be colorful strong and full of life.
Welcome back Lav! If it weren’t for struggling we would never become the person we were meant to be. There is something greater at work here. Call it what you will, The universe, God, etc. but make no mistake we are all a work in progress and we ain’t done until we’re done. Embrace the suck in all of its mystery and trust the process ❤😊
Perhaps you are correct! And embracing the suck in all of it mystery is what I do best 🤣🤣 that's now my new mantra 💜 thank you !
Lav, my heart aches for you and all your poor sweet baby snails. I can’t imagine losing that many so quickly! I totally get disappearing from the internet while dealing with something like that. So awful. Anyway, sending hugs to you (and all your little snail babies)! DEATH TO LEECHES!
Lav I am so sorry!! 💔🥺 that’s absolutely awful and one’s true nightmare. I can’t imagine losing one let alone all of your babies. I am so heartbroken for you. Thank you for sharing what happened, I know it probably wasn’t easy but you are very strong to share. it’s good to know that can happen. 2023 will be so much better and you’re gonna have so much room for new creativity and I wish you all the success! I look foward to continue to grow with you Lav 💜
Hi Lav, I have really enjoyed your videos and keep coming back to this one. Im very sorry for your loss. The gentleman who brought up the Reverse Respiration - I have read thru a bit of that but I wondered if you found an explanation that is in layman’s terms! I have several new plants coming and I have a few young adult snails in my tank so I’m a bit nervous. I ordered some plants through Amazon. I read through your comments last night and it seems one person had this happen with plants from Amazon. If there is one person, there are more. I want to do this to my plants when they come. Is it correct in saying, place the entire plant in seltzer water, use something to hold it down, then place the plant in a dark location, and for how long? 72 hours? Please get back to me. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would very much want to take this precaution. Thank you in advance for your time. I have a 37 gal tank with 2 large chocolate snails and 2 young but growing very fast baby blues and I would very much like to order some magentas or violets from you when you’re ready!
This is awful Lav! I know how heartbreaking it is to lose one snail! But 8 tanks of your beloved snails! That’s just overwhelming and terrible! I’m so glad you posted this video. I didn’t even know such things existed. It was highly educational and I immediately ran to my 5 snail tanks with a magnifying glass to check each one to make sure I didn’t see any of these little nasties anywhere. We are all here to learn from each other. It’s important to know all the bad things w/ the good ones. My heart aches for you. I’m so glad you have returned! I look so forward to your post!
I was reading a journal article from a retired professor doing a mystery snail genetics experiment. Maybe you’ve ran across it before. He mentioned that most Mystery snails were female and you rarely get males. I was wondering in your experience if this statement was true?
I just found your channel last month and was sad to see that there were no recent videos. I have enjoyed your content and wanted more ✨️
So happy my mystery snails and I have you back to teach us all the snaily things 🐌
I wish healthy thoughts to you and your snails babies! 🌿
Missed you!!! I was worried when you disappeared. I loved my snails I got from you! Please don’t feel embarrassed. This hobby can bring so much happiness yet rip our hearts out! I too have experienced a huge loss with fish I had for several years due to something that shouldn’t have happened but did so I feel responsible for their lost lives. I was physically sick. So please don’t hide under a rock! All my mystery snails have passed to just as you described yours! I have done nothing to my mystery snail tank as well except it running. I didn’t know what happened but it was just as you described! So you have taught me something as I had no idea why they slowly quit moving. Now I can know what to look for! I can’t wait to start over as I miss them! Luv u Lav!!!!!! So so happy you are back!!!!
Hey Lav. I've been keeping my snail shells ever since I had my first snail. I've never had great luck with mystery snails and my first attempt at hatching, I hatched 3 clutches but only 6-7 lived long and 4 remain now. One of those 4 had babies, and _that_ clutch was a great success, and I have 84 bigger babies and a bunch of little ones left over. Generation 3!
I'm sorry for what happened to your snails, but I am happy to see someone else who is also really into them. I've also had a lot of difficulties with my tanks lately, and I'm sorry you are too. But it is nice to see people overcoming these issues, because it helps me hope I will be able to as well.
I also think I will get some guppies for my snail tanks... I really like what you've got going on there. I was already considering guppies but this has only solidified that decision for me! Long live the snail armies! ❤ God bless you and your pets.
Happy to hear you and have you back. Your videos have been missed. ❤ Just got back into these beauties again when I had my single MS lay a top secret clutch, and when the babies hatched out it was a complete surprise and I had so many survivors! Why oh why did I give all my calcium tabs away… lol
Thank you so much, Good to be here ♡ and oh no! Eggshells/cuttlebone Stat! 😆🤣💜🐌💜 best of luck with your littles!
@@LavsSnails good idea! Also I have some juvenile purples and when I get some clutches I’d be happy to send them your way if you want some help rebuilding your babies. As fast as they’re growing it might only be a couple months till they start doing the horizontal bop 🤣
Sorry to hear that glad you made it through
I'm so sorry Lav! I hope your tanks come back to life and thrive. ❤
I am so sorry you went through this. That was a terrible loss. Please know I admire your courage for letting us know. ❤
Oh no, i'm so sorry you had to go through all this!!! Don't worry about content--take as long as you need to grieve for this loss. 💗
Lav I'm so very sorry for what happened! I hate that you are blaming yourself! You obviously love your snails and would never knowingly put them at risk!!!! There is a lot of information out there about bringing things in from ponds etc and that it's good for ur tank. I think that they are forgetting that some tanks contain life that can be absolutely decimated from following this advice! I had no idea about snail leeches until I saw this video. U saved me from making this same mistake by posting this and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I could of been in this exact situation if it wasn't for you and ur content. Please come back and continue your work! You have been such a wealth of knowledge and are a big reason why my snails are thriving. There isn't much info about mystery snail care beyond the basic care sheet so please continue your work here! We need u back!
All my luv,
Tawni
🥺 thank you.
Your kindness is amazing and deeply appreciated. 🐌💜
I am absolutely heartbroken for you and you have nothing to be embarrassed about Lav.
Here’s to a better 2023 ❤
I appreciate that, thank you 💜🐌💜
So very sorry this happened to you and your snails! Hope the future is bright and leech free!!!!!!
Don't be embarassed, and I am so heartbroken for you. 😭
I started keeping Mystery Snails on accident late Feb with just two in my goldfish tank (I say accident because I thought they'd be a cleanup crew and not the kept mistresses and misters they are) but I loved them so much I have a whole seperate tank just for them and have not two but 8! I have incubated, hatched, and am in my first 3 weeks of raising my first 3 clutches all on YOUR videos alone!
So glad you're back and happy to see new content and have an opportunity to interact with you. We call you "Snail Mother" at our house.😂
🥺 I appreciate you and this comment so very much.
Thank you so very much. Please hug your snails for me, and then turn, and give yourself a giant snail hug from me.
You've made my day. Thank you 🐌💜 and thank you for being here with me.
You are hilarious!! I was scared because I'm just starting my mystery snail endeavor. I have been watching all of your videos and taking notes!! I'm glad you are back!!!
So sorry for your loss! That’s heartbreaking!! Thanks for sharing and welcome back. I accidentally have gold mystery snails….thought my girl was laying duds since she had several times before. Wrong! Now I have over 70!! All healthy and growing…amazingly. Now what?! Anybody want them? They’re cute but I don’t have the space for them as I’m a nano tanker. I’m in the US in the mid Atlantic. Help!
OMG YOURE BACK!!! MISSED YOU SO MUCH!! I TRIED EMAILING YOU :( I WAS WORRIED!! THANK GOD YOU'RE BACK!!! YOU ARE SO NEEDED!! SO SORRY FOR SHOUTING!!
GOOD TO BE BACK! SO VERY SORRY I WORRIED YOU💜! I APPRECIATE YOU FOR CHECKING IN! SHOUTING IS OKAY AND NEEDED SOMETIMES😆! THANKS FOR HANGING IN THERE WITH ME!!🐌💜
I'm so sorry to hear that this happened to your snails Lav. Each one was so cherished. Thank you for taking the time to document this, now I know that this can happen!!!
Oh, dear God. I’ve never heard of snail leeches! Thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry this happened to you! I cry when my snails simply die of old age. I’m sure it was horrifying to lose so many of them. I only have a 10 gallon tank, so I usually just have 2 at a time. My previous pair of albinos just passed away. Today I received a pair of beautiful magentas. One has shell damage, and I came to find your video of how to repair a broken shell and saw this video. 💔. EDIT: I will be quarantining these 2 until I’m sure nothing hitchhiked 😮
That's tragic. I know it's nature but I'd cry, profusely cry!
I'm sorry this happened, but thank you for pushing through and sharing. You probably saved other snails lives by making this ❤️
Thank you for sharing! Glad you are back and we are here for you!!!❤❤
I jumped for joy seeing that you posted a video and I immediately watched it to then cry for what you've been dealing with for the last almost year. I am so sorry you had to go through that nightmare. I'm gutted for all the pain and loss you've dealt with. I have never heard of snail leeches until now and I hope I never have to. 😱🥺 I'm thrilled you are back because I sure have missed seeing your videos and posts. Welcome back!!! Cheers to 2023 being a better year for you.🐌💜
Oh wow I'm so sorry that you had to go through all of this I have mystery 🐌🐌 too welcome back will keep an eye out 🙂🙂
Heartbreaking to see something you love decimated like that.
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So glad you are back! I also very recently found your channel and binge watched every single video…and then realized there weren’t any new ones! I had searched the internet to try and find you but it’s like you didn’t exist anymore. Very excited for any new content, what you have already produced has been incredibly helpful! My snails have better lives because of you 😊
i was in northern minnesota last spring and came across a lot of huge invasive snails in a lake-and they had snail leeches on them when i took a closer look.
sorry about the losses.
glad to have you back
So Sorry about the loss of your snails, i hope you will beat the leeches and be back bigger and better than ever
I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL PLEASE POST MORE!!! Your content is everything!!
On it!!! (finally 😅)!! Thank you for being here!🐌💜
Thank you for this very informative video. I had no idea! I have been batteling limpets. Probably got them same way you did. While they are truley a pest, at least they are not deadly. So glad you are back. God bless! 👵
Thank you for sharing this information on snail leeches and I am so sorry you had to experience this first hand! 😢 With or without snails, you are still THE snail queen of the east coast 🐌
Welcome Back! Missed YOU!!!
So very sad!!! I'm sorry you are going through this :(
Love you Lav I’m so sorry for your babies and you.
Love your site !!!! ❤️ SO sorry about all of your losses !!! Sad !!!
Thank you 💜
Thank you so much for coming back! I missed you:(
Finally a new video!
Sorry about the leaches, hope your snails get better. I absolutely love mystery and apple snails.
I'm so sorry about the leeches. The snails are awesome.
Ugh glad your back. You can have some of mine.
Hi Lav - Thank you for sharing your challenges. I began keeping stuff in aquariums during Covid. Your videos taught me a lot about our favorite snails, and I look forward to more. I had an infestation of little things in a three gallon planted aquarium. Nothing seemed to get rid of them. Until I added a goldfish. At the beginning, I put some water in a ten gallon tank with a sponge filter. The tank sat empty for a few days so I figured it needed a fish. I bought two feeder goldfish at Petsmart for less than a dollar. These goldfish may very well be magic. They lived through some pretty nasty water while I learned about the nitrogen cycle. Back to snails, the rather large goldfish quickly ate everything edible in the tank, ruined a bunch of plants, and disturbed the hardscape. After a week, no squiggly things, or duckweed! One of the things I have learned about this hobby, everything gets eaten at some point. BTW - absolutely love your snello recipe.
coming up on the end of my 1st year in aquariums. i learned sooo much from your videos. thank you. and my heart breaks for you and the snaily fam.
Oh, and I got to the end of the video I was so sad he had such a beautiful set up. That’s heartbreaking. I know I had one snail in the beginning when it first started what it was too high and it climbed up and fell onto the floor and it broke. I was really sad but I see you’re not here again for two months. I hope you’re OK and I hope your tanks are OK.🐌🐌 It’s pretty sad. 🥲
Lavinia!!!! Soooooo happy you're back!!! Very sorry to hear about the leech problem - terribly sad as it's quite obvious you absolutely love your snails.
I've learned a lot watching your videos, and it's so good you're back!!! Part of learning is failure. You'll be back better than ever!!!!
Just love that you are back ! I have never seen or had these and didn’t even know about these yuck ! We love our snails and can feel your pain !
Lav it's so nice to hear your voice again! I missed your videos so much.
Missed you. So glad you are back.
💜🐌💜 thank you
Lav, so good to see you back! I love your videos and have shared them with so many snail lovers. It breaks my heart to hear what you’ve been through 🥲. I hope the comeback will work out great and am looking forward to lots of videos from you.
Just have to ask, in the frame with the new baby snail, there are two things in the background that look like the leeches you showed -I sure hope not, but please check :-)
Thank you for your concern. They are just normal very tiny detritus worms though. You may notice they glide when moving instead of the "inchworm" style a leech moves. Trust me...there are no leeches in that tank. But thanks 💜 good looking out! 🐌💜
@@LavsSnails thank you! 🐌❤️
Excellent video to see ,I never seen them before .
Wow Lav, So very sorry to hear this!! I can’t imagine what you went though. Just letting you know your videos have helped me tremendously and my 4 mystery snails thank you! Hope you keep going with your snail business because you’re fantastic!!! Kind regards, Carrol!
Thank you Carrol!🐌💜
Awww I'm so sorry you went through this!! I hope you are rebuilding your tanks and making a comeback now! ❤
Don't you dare be embarrassed!!! Lav vs. Leeches I know who I'm backing every time. 💯
🤭😘Thanks Pattie 💜💜🐌💜💜
I feel ya girl. I’ve got leeches in my female tank. In the process of setting up a temp tank to move the snails & shrimp to do I can destroy their current tank and start over. So devastating
I'''m so glad you're back! I've missed you. This must have been so horrible for you. I'm so sorry you experienced this. Glad you made it through, Lav.
I just found your channel today. 🥺 come baaaack!
Im sorry you lost your snail's 😢 I find your video's super helpful in my apple/mystery snail journey. Unfortunately I found leeches in my tank and currently researching how to treat .... dont hold out much hope - but wish me luck
Omgosh GOOD LUCK! (I know I'm late to comment, how'd did the eradication go? Any luck? Please update when you can) 🫂🐌💜
I don't know what to say. Don't beat yourself up, no good comes of that. Other people on TH-cam put stuff in their tanks from the outside. Father fish says to get a bucket water from a pond or stream with lots or organisms to start a tank as part of his directions. He's been doing this for 40 years. I would like to tell you that you helped me through the pandemic. I had a hard time, my mother had just died after Parkinson/Parkinsonia dementia. I was realling from the downward spiral, trying HARD to pick myself up when the pandemic hit. I got down. I used to listen and learn from your videos. Your voice is calming and you are so positive, encouraging and creative. I would listen to your videos even after I had the information down. I liked listening to the videos with snails and music. That was so thoughtful of you to post that. Now, I have mystery snails. I even let a clutch hatch and I knew what to do because of you 💜 Find peace Lav. You aren't perfect, you don't need to be. You've helped a lot of people. I thank you✌🏼
🫂I appreciate you so very much. Thank you so much for this comment and for being here with me 🐌💜
I AM SAD ABOUT THE SNAILS DEATHS AND IM ALSO SAD ABOUT THE LEECHES DEATHS DUE TO THE REASON THAT THEY ALSO WANTED TO LIVE IN THE WAY NATURE MADE THEM .
WELL , IM ALSO UNDERSTAND ABOUT TIMES WHEN THE SITUATION ACTUALLY IS DIFFERENT FROM HOW WE WANT IT TO BE . MANY TIMES THE SITUATION WE EXPERIENCE IS NOT COMFORTABLE , SO WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE IT AS COMFORTABLE AS WE CAN AND SOMETIMES WE MURDERING THE LIFE WE DONT WANT SO THE LIFE WE DO WANT WILL LIVE .
IM ALSO GILLTY :/ AND I SAD ABOUT IT !!!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE :)
WE DID A THUMB-UP ABOUT THE VIDEO AND SUBSCRIBED TO THE CHANNEL :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
Oh Lav, I am so happy you’re back! And so heartbroken for all of your beautiful babies. I was tempted to pick something out of the creek the other day, and after seeing this video, I will be sure not to do that!
Oh I forgot to add that many years ago when I was new to the hobby I became interested in dwarf water lettuce and got some from a person with a koi pond. It was a major mistake and introduced almost every imaginable killing pest into my first two tanks, they had to be torn down and I also watched everything die and used many of the things you used to try and kill them. I think new hobbyists should be educated about this. It is such a heartbreaking experience
Welcome back!!! You have been missed more than you know!!! ❤❤❤ I am so sorry that this happened to you! I can’t believe it!!! Absolutely devastating! Us snail people stand behind you!!!
So so sorry to hear about your snails! Your videos helped me learn so much about snail keeping and I am glad you are back and hopefully your snails will be soon too.
Hope you come back. I just found you and subscribed.
Well that's horrifying :(
I feel like at that point, and I know very well how stupidly expensive it would be, but at that point it feels like the right thing to do is throw everything out and start over with all new tanks, filters, heaters, everything. I would be too paranoid about having missed something somewhere and having it happen all over again just as soon as things started to look like they were back on track.
Heck, I have a tank I just finished using as a hospital tank for my betta fish where I used copper sulfate in it (betta is doing great now!), and now I won't use that tank for any other purpose other than a QT tank where copper treatment is called for. I wouldn't want to put anything that is copper sensitive into that tank no matter how many times I clean and rinse it. And that's a pretty mild thing to contend with on the scale of aquarium trouble, as even copper sensitive critters do require at least trace amounts of copper as most living things do, but I won't risk that tank regardless. It is a dedicated copper-treatment only tank from now on. And that means the filter and heater and substrate and silk plants that are in it are also all now 100% dedicated to that tank and that use, and I will never risk using any of those things in any other tank. That's about $100 of kit that is now dedicated to one, infrequently needed purpose. Obviously not a very large tank, as a large tank alone could cost well over $100, and the other kit needed is hundreds more, so that does get very expensive indeed to replace even just one tank, much less eight, but it is more expensive to lose all the snails again when you discover that you missed cleaning one tiny spot in one corner of one filter. No good options at that point :(
I have a question. I have my first batch of snail babies. They have been in a breeding container. I set up a 20 gallon tank just for snail. How can I transfer my baby snail to there for ever home? Thank you for all of your videos. They have helped me and now I have my own baby snails. They are Ivory (White).
I am so sorry this happened to you Lav! I hope everything works out from here on! We missed you and are glad you're back!
I'm new to snails in an aquarium I have had a few fatalities but in all doing ok , I didn't even know that snail leeches existed it has scared me now I'll be looking even more closer. I'm sorry about your snails it must be awful I got upset with the ones i lost how awful loosing all of them
I hope you have got on control of the nasty things and can start again with your baby snails. Good luck.
I had this issue. I no longer get anything from ponds either. I can't tell you how much time I spent on fighting the problem. Everything I have now is completely new and nothing is from my old tanks. I saw them demolish my favorite tank in under a week.
I have a snail leech as a pet. Unfortunately you know what It requires as food. Won't say it. I keep snails as pets too so its kind of sad.
my new mystery snail has completely left its shell. still moving around and eating. is there a way to help him back in shell? it had a few chubby white worms hanging around when it first dropped off - not sure if they are leeeches
Good Job Lav!!! miss ya!
Thanks Life 💜 miss you too!
I’m so sorry about your snails!
This is the stuff nightmares are made of. I'm so sorry, Lav. dasaltemelosguy from aquarium co op forum did some (a lot of) research and experiments and found that soaking plants in the dark in seltzer water (has to say "seltzer water", it's not "sparkling water" etc) in the dark, for 12 hours, kills basically anything. This process is called Reverse Respiration. Carbon dioxide benefits the plants, but since there's no oxygen for anything else, the other life forms/bacteria/planaria, etc die. We use silverware on top of the plants to weigh them down while they are soaking, so we can be sure they stay submerged. Note: delicate plants such as guppygrass can only be submerged in the seltzer water for 2 hours max. A microscope was used to confirm death of the organisms.
This is BRILLIANT information!! Thank you very much for sharing it with me! I will look for that video and utilize that method for SURE for plants in the future. Thanks, I appreciate it. 🐌💜
@@LavsSnails I’m afraid there’s no video on it. Just a bunch of research. It is posted on the aquarium co op CARE forum. If you type Reverse Respiration in the search bar of the forum it will come up. A bunch of people tested it and reported their results also.
I keep seeing videos about how things from ponds (old leaves etc) are great for fish tanks, but after seeing the horror in this video I’m NOT doing it! Ps I hatched 2 clutches in Spring of last year. They were so cute! I kept some and some were adopted to local hobbyist with a little care sheet and some crab cuisine and cuttlebone ❤️🐌
I’m trying this today. Thank You! So much for this info!
The same thing happened to me on a smaller scale with planaria. Wiped out my colony of neocardinas and possibly a few snails.
So sorry about all your babies!! Thank you for posting this though! One of my tanks kills every snail I put in there and it's just like you said they just stop moving and then die. I am wondering if this is what is happening and my beta fish is just fast enough to eat most of them 🤔
Perhaps! Look at the rim of the water line and along the swirls of the snail, leeches will also hide behind the Opurculum "hinge." Oh gosh, I hope you don't have them! Best of luck! And thank you 💜
@@LavsSnails Thanks Lav!! You're the best!
I am so sad for you! Thank you for sharing...Hug your snaily friends :)
Lav, When will you have purple snail’s available for sale? I’d love one or two!! Kindly, Carrol
Found some of these in my aquarium in South Australia after buying some plants, one I found the next day the next one I found many months after both captured now separated and I keep them in small aquarium I find them cool they already have some eggs
I bought some scuds and there was one in the bag. That's why I'm here. Now I know.
I just bought my first mystery snail from pet co and 5 min after being in my tank i saw a small leach.... 😢 did my snail bring something from the store? Is all hope lost? Honest please 🙏
Great editing
Love you. You are a big help.
I’m so sorry. That’s just awful. I realize this video is over 5 months old- I hope your tanks are all doing a thousand percent better!- i have ivory mystery smails- These things beeed like rabbits! too many to be honest. Could I send you some? Any snail living with you would be a lucky snail!
I live in Los Angeles CA and it’s been horribly hot… I just worry about shipping- ?
Hey Lavinia!!! Just checking in on ya - I hope you're doing well. I wanted to share something with you - I finally have snabies!!!!! Thought you could use some good news 😊
Hi Lav. I am so sorry about your babies!! Welcome back!
Have you ever attempted to fix an operculum? I have one that is actually bent on one side. I have no idea how this happened, but it is sticking out at a right angle. Should I clip it so that it can grow back? She cannot close her operculum and so is exposed, poor thing. Thoughts?
Ohh I am sorry to hear that and VERY sorry for the late reply. How did she end up making out? And to answer, no I have never had to repair an operculum. Again I know this comment was left months ago, BUT I usually list leave that operculem alone if they can close up.
I hope all turned out okay, Or at least, as good as it could have 🐌💜
@@LavsSnails Alas, she didn’t last very long without her full operculum, poor lamb. Thank you for your reply! And by the way, I have used your nail file technique for damaged shells and it has worked beautifully! Never would have been able to do it without your advice. Thank you for all of your inspirational and insightful guidance❤️
Hi,there 😊 I just got some for my tetra community tank and one serpae tetra tagged my gold mystery snail and he or she is not coming out for three days now. I tried coaching it out by doing the wet wash cloth method, no luck. I have moved it to my guppy tank and still no luck. I know it's still alive because it opens up time to time but not coming out. What can I do? Please help 🙏...
Omg! I’m currently having a snail leech crisis, please tell me the starve them out method works. I don’t keep snails but was letting some pest snails run rampant (they were keeping the tank clean) now I have no snails and all leeches and it’s so gross and weird
Yay baby snails!! ❤
❤. Ive nuke my aquascape with bleach and salt watch them died. And never start the aquarium set up again. Ive watched them eat little snail. So, before i started again, i need to find the best ways to rid the leeches. This video is very helpfull. Have you tried the kuhli loach fish? I heard that, it can clean the planaria. But i dont know if they can eat leach snail also. Hope your the best for your snail thanks ok. Thanks
Omg I have them. RIGHT NOW. 😅 I have been manually removing them. Cuz omg!
I'm so sorry I cryed my eyes out my heart aches for you. I have a snail that I really need help with ,could I please send pictures of Shelly the snaily . My first snail and our goldfish bit her and broke her shell I have had her in a glass bowl for about 6or7 months in spring water .been keeping a cuttle bone in there with her I have seen her eating it her shell seems to be disintegrating, could you please help me fix my girl she also started having this clear slimy that has black dots in it.im not sure what to do.im going to do the egg yoke and green beans I will pick up some Knox when I go to the store. I'm so glad I found your videos you give me hope that I can help her what happens. To the egg shell repair does it fall off or is it absorbed by the snail my girl needs a repair for sure. I was taking the cuddle bone and scraping the power right on the crack , and filling it in with it .idk just don't want snaily to be in pain or anything,I will send pictures if that's okay maby you could tell what I need to do thank you for your time and Shelly the snaily says thank you too