Snails jumping out of the tank

[Mike389]

Woke up this morning around 5 am to about 5 snail crawling on my floor... I have a 50 rimless tank, what's causing these snails to leave my tank? They are only nerite snails, the rest like to stay in the tank.

 

[STHILL]

Nothing abnormal..my wife used to wake up in the morning and my dog would be playing with the snails that crawled out of my tank..

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[Mike389]

Dam that's annoying every day I'm going to have to throw them back in

 

[theMeat]

Don't know if it's coincidence or what, but when i installed a ground probe snails stopped leaving tank.

 

[Mike389]

I was thinking that there might be a stray voltage making them leave, just was curious why all the other snails in my tank are not doing the same thing, it's only that species of snail (nerite)

 

[brand]

Try a cover my friend put his inside of the rimless looks clean try get you picture how he did


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[bonomo53]

Its the type of snail. I stopped buying nerites for this reason.

 

[SIReefer]

Nerites are known to stay by the waterline or crawl out. A screen top would work.

 

[smallreef]

Depends on type, some are more tidal snails. I used to bring some home from caribbean and stopped for same reason.

 

[ezaudio2]

try trochus snails.....the best

 

[Dogbed]

Maybe they where just heading to 7-11 on a beer run.

 

[Mike389]

Thanks for the suggestions I will keep you posted, what I did last night is put a screen over my tank then took it off this morning as they don't rele move during the day. This worked but rele annoying