topochico225
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Hey y'all!
I have a male betta fish named Bingley, purchased a couple months ago. I got a zebra snail a week after I got Bingley to keep down the algae levels in the fish bowl. The snail was fine for a while, but in the past ~2 months I thought I didn't see him very much, but I was also incredibly busy.
I cleaned out the fish bowl this afternoon (it had gone WAY too long without a cleaning, I know) and when I was adding Bingley back to the bowl just now after acclimating him to the water, I noticed some silvery grey crud on the snail's foot. I poked it through the ziploc, and realized he was very dead, and apparently rotting? A bunch of crud came out of the shell when I removed the silvery goop. What happened to him? Did he just die, and water being the universal solvent, just... dissolved?
TIA!
I have a male betta fish named Bingley, purchased a couple months ago. I got a zebra snail a week after I got Bingley to keep down the algae levels in the fish bowl. The snail was fine for a while, but in the past ~2 months I thought I didn't see him very much, but I was also incredibly busy.
I cleaned out the fish bowl this afternoon (it had gone WAY too long without a cleaning, I know) and when I was adding Bingley back to the bowl just now after acclimating him to the water, I noticed some silvery grey crud on the snail's foot. I poked it through the ziploc, and realized he was very dead, and apparently rotting? A bunch of crud came out of the shell when I removed the silvery goop. What happened to him? Did he just die, and water being the universal solvent, just... dissolved?
TIA!
