Snail Escape

Delphinus · #1 11-30-2012, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Reef Puffer

I found a hermit crab crawling in my kitchen about 150 feet away from my tank. Silly critters!

Wow that was quite the little adventure he went on!!!

Nano · #2 11-30-2012, 03:58 PM

That reminds me. I have to put eggcrate over my overflow tonight. I keep finding them in the sump

Palmer · #3 11-30-2012, 04:53 PM

When I had a nano with a fairly small Mexican Turbo he would repeatedly go to the top of the tank just to the edge and spit water out of the tank somehow. I would end up with dried salt on paperwork in my office as the nano was on a sidetable where I worked. Not hard to imagine one getting over excited and taking a plunge. My main display has an additional horizontal lip and eggcrate preventing such things so never experienced it before.

Flash · #4 11-30-2012, 05:06 PM

i have a hermit crab that was king of escaping.... until he finally one time met my dog before i could get to him... poor buggar! lol

ScubaSteve · #5 11-30-2012, 07:42 PM

Ya, I found a scarlet hermit in my bathroom once and another time saw a fiddler crab run across my living room floor when watching TV. How they escaped, I'll never know. I get verity, nerotes and margarites climbing in and out of my tank and overflow all the time. They think they just own the place.

Aysha · #6 11-30-2012, 09:16 PM

I'd be happy to have a crab or snail escape compared to the other creatures I have had lost in my house over the years! Frogs,snakes,geckos haha

intarsiabox · #7 12-01-2012, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Aysha

I'd be happy to have a crab or snail escape compared to the other creatures I have had lost in my house over the years! Frogs,snakes,geckos haha

My daughter lost her hamster in the house a couple of years ago and it ended up in the unfinished basement. The problem was that it got into the insulation and I could never find it so I just left food and water out for a month. It finally occured to me to borrow a live mouse trap from work to catch it. So I got it home, put some peanut butter inside and went to bed. The next morning I found the hamster stuck half way into the trap because his fat little a$$ would not fit through the traps opening. Of course the spring tension was on his body all night so when I removed him he was still alive but bent in half. He managed to live for another year and never did quite straighten out again!