If anyone sees my nerite snail, let me know.

[Gypsum]

I had one nerite snail living in my apistogramma breeding tank, and it has vanished. I've looked under the caves, poked around the plants, took out the sponge filter. No sign of it, not even an empty shell. I can only presume that it's gone walkabout. There is a gap in the lid, so it's concievable that it could escape, although I haven't found it anywhere in the vicinity of the tank.

If you see a striped nerite snail crawling along Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow looking for an open pub, tell it that it won't find one because all the pubs are shut, and send it back.

 

[JemZ]

I'll make sure to give him an algae wafer if I ever see him

 

[Retired Viking]

I had a fiddler crap go on a walkabout once, scared the heck out of my wife when it went across the kitchen floor, he made it home safe with a little help. Hopefully your snail will show up, did you check the filter?

 

[kwi]

Don't nerites burrow from time to time?

 

[seangee]

Keep checking around the tank. Mine was OK after escaping and wandering around on the floor for over 24 hours.

 

[Retired Viking]

Check under the hood too, my nerites like to go upside down and hang there for awhile.

 

[Gypsum]

Checked the filter and under the lid. Haven't seen it on the floor, but the tank is next to a large sofa. Haven't faced moving the sofa.

I'm expecting it to send postcards. "Having a great time in Ibiza. Wish you were here."

 

[TheTenthDoctor]

Will let you know. Since you issued this AMBER alert I have all the bettas on patrol and the platies are watching the guppy grass fields.

 

[Gypsum]

The snail has been found. It wasn't in Ibiza after all, but behind the table the fish tank sits on, wedged into a gap between the floorboards and the wall. Definitely an inferior holiday destination. We couldn't work out if it was still alive, so it's sitting in a bucket of tank water.

In other news of suicidal invertebrates, one of my cherry shrimp tried crawling into a powerhead today and did not live to tell the tale. I saw it pottering along on the outside of the powerhead in the early afternoon, and I'm annoyed at myself for not chasing it off, although it could have gone back at any point after I left the flat. Looks like it attempted to crawl in one of the holes and got itself fatally stuck.

My next shrimp purchase will be a vampire shrimp. That isn't going to get itself trapped in powerheads.