Nightly Pilgrimage

[JustKia]

Each night I feed the fish and the trumpet snails make a pilgrimage to the surface, then back again a couple hours later
Any ideas why? Most of the time they're on/under the substrate. This only occurs at feeding time.

 

[fisheye]

Try dropping your water level .Maybe there looking to buid orlay eggs .
It seems years ago they would lay eggs on glass just at water line.
Fisheye

 

[JustKia]

Not Trumpet snails hun, they give birth to live young.

Just odd how they do it at feeding time. If i feed at 8pm they do it then, if I don't feed til midnight then they make the trip at midnight...

 

[shelaghfishface]

must take them ages, bless lol and bit of a wasted effort as the food will fall anyway.. aww love em

 

[JustKia]

Aww - you think they're going up to get the food?
Silly snails - they should eat the sinking wafers and catfish pellets instead

 

[iSnail]

Mine do the same. They make their way to the top then realise the food is down the bottom and race back down again shortly afterwards. Silly things

 

[Mr Bliss]

Exactly the same behavior in my tank.

They're smart enough to know where the food comes from, they just haven't really thought it through.

 

[JustKia]

Well, now I'm going to have to wait until they get to the top, after I feed tonight and then sprinkle some crushed flake round the very edges for them - 18" (vertical!) is a long trip for a snail LOL - oh and back again...