do your snails ever get stuck???

[Magnum Man]

it would seem packing your house on your back could be challenging in an enclosed environment , with lots of hard scape for fish...I'm looking at a medium large Ivory Mystery snail that is wedged between a plastic hollow log, and the front glass... it got there itself, and may not actually be stuck, but maybe snails require "childproofing" their tanks, before adding them??? in the wild, wide open spaces abound, in and aquarium full of nooks and cranny's it may not be an ideal environment for bigger snails... besides the bladder snails, I have a half dozen rabbits, and several mystery snails... I like the bigger snails, but not if I need to keep tonging them out of tight spots... I don't always see them in my tanks, but bigger snails could do a lot of bad to your water if left dead in your tanks, I don't like that... thoughts???
I only added one to this tank, as it seems like one of my most challenging tanks for a bigger snail, I wanted to be able to keep an eye on it... it's been here for several weeks...

 

[emeraldking]

do your snails ever get stuck???​

Oh yes, for sure... Some just squeeze themselves into a narrow situation. And somehow have problems to escape from it. So, I have to give them a hand.

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy09]

Very common for my nerites, indeed.

 

[GaryE]

A lot of pond snails seem to get momentarily stuck between the glass and my finger, but it's quickly solved. For a moment, it's a high pressure situation.
I say I hate pond snails, but maybe, just maybe, there's a bit of a crush operating.

 

[Back in the fold]

Snails . The original backpackers .

 

[Uberhoust]

I haven't noticed stuck snails in my tank, I have ramshorn and nerites currently. I don't have a lot of pinch points in my current layout.

 

[Donya]

it's been here for several weeks...

That does not bode well for its health, regardless of where it's sitting. If you are seeing movement of any sort from it then it at best needs some help but may be injured and declining (it doesn't look to me like it should be properly stuck there), and at worst it might be time for the sniff test...

 

[Magnum Man]

Sorry, I meant in this tank, not this position...

 

[Donya]

Sorry, I meant in this tank, not this position...

Oh! Well that is a very different situation oops

 

[Magnum Man]

well all day, and it's still there... I may try moving it to a different location I can monitor, if it's still there in the morning...