Another stoopid question!

Do (or can) snails migrate?

I started up a smalish new tank last week. Okay the tank itself was used, but it was washed and sterilized thoroughly. New clean and washed substrate, new heater, new pump and filter, with new filter material. Clean water with dechlor. Nothing else except a few drops of pure ammonia to start the cycle process. No livestock, no plants.

This morning I found a whopping big snail and a whole bunch of li'l uns clinging to the glass inside the tank!

How'd they get there?

There's no food or anything except water to attract them. The snails in my other tanks are thriving happily. Nice neighbors, free food, they're not paying rent, and they ignore all my eviction notices.

Why would they leave a cozy pozie like that to trek off into the wilderness and settle in a sterile and desolate new tank?

Pioneering instinct? On the lam? In-law problems? Witness protection? Missionary work? Unrequited love?

Eish!!

 

aliens man! aliens!

 

Some aquatic snails are capable of moving short distances across 'land' without drying out. It ay be possible that is may have happened, provided that there was another tank (inhabited with snails, of course) that was close enough.

 

hai wena you bewitched i tell you! Bewitched!! lol

 

+1

Or they were in the gravel.

 

Or your wife moved them in revenge for the ones you chucked outside

 

@Vis LOL - I think you got it!

 

Wherever they came from, the next li'l invader's gonna get a surprise!

I'm putting a ton of salt into that tank!

I can wait...

 

Dude... if you got snails in one tank, you will NEVER get rid of them in your other tanks. This is just a given!

 

Throwing salt in isn't such a good solution, especially in a cycling tank. You'll throw the cycle right off, killing the bacteria with the salt increase.

 

Introduce a puffer fish to your new tank, they love snails!!!

 

By the way, there ain't a thing as a stupid question, rather ask than stay in the dark, revenge on the wife, put them in her fridge!!!!!

 

I'm sure he'd get them for supper then...