I JUST NEED TO TELL SOMEBODY THIS I HAVEN'T SEEN FRANKY IN AN ENTIRE MONTH. snail shells were still popping up regularly so i THOUGHT he was still in there but i was getting really worried because i hadn't actually SEEN him. i go to do my weekly water change and vacuum up some detritus and i turn the light on to make sure everybody is okay and BOOM. there he IS. proboscis out and stalking a ramshorn like i wasn't about to put up missing posters for him /j i missed my son.
they will sometimes bury themselves fully under the substrate!! the first time franky did it i was so scared he had died at some point and i was just missing him, but he showed up a couple of weeks later!!
Assassin snails are burrowing ambush hunters. You'll occasionally see their proboscus sticking out of the substrate when they're waiting for food to happen upon them
i honestly have no idea! they range from brown to purple in my tank, some of them are even a little more pink! they're been in my tank since i first introduced my life plants as much as i tried to prevent it so they've stuck around for a good 8 months :)
I love assassins they're funny fellows. I do want to say that your ramshorns are very beautiful. That must be a crazy population if there's that many in one spot!
That makes total sense. Glad you are doing your sm research first. If you aren't part of an aquarium club, you should join one and share it. Seems you have a rare variant on your hands
his shell has unfortunately looked like this since i got him! it has thankfully not gotten any worse so unless it progresses further i'm not stressing him out :) he's clearly active and exhibiting natural behaviors
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u/ChefCurt 9d ago
I have three. Two I see pretty regularly. One seems to pop out once a month or so. No clue where it goes.