Do conch snails hibernate?

[Rainblood]

Seems like a silly q but mine was super active for the first few weeks and then has been buried in the same spot for about a week now.
I'll see him stick his eyes & "nose" out of the sand in the evening but he doesn't move.

I've even tried to drop some nori in there, but nothing.

Any ideas?

 

[ZapataInc]

I have a fighting conch that u thought died bc I didn't see him for months. Even at night he wasn't coming out. Then on Monday I was doing my water change and syphoning the sand and I found him. At first I thought it was just his shell but nope he started "jumping" away.

 

[Rainblood]

Did he go back into hiding and remain out and active?

 

[ZapataInc]

Did he go back into hiding and remain out and active?

He was out for the time I was doing the water change...now he is now where to be seen.

 

[Rainblood]

Ditto on mine.
I'm running out of options on keeping my sand nice. I tried diamond gobies 3x and they all committed suicide. Now my GD conch is on strike...

 

[bzb]

I thought mine died or hibernated. Nope. He was STUCK. Ding dong buried himself between two rocks and got wedged (I put my rocks down before I put sand in).

I spotted his nose one night when I was looking at critters with a flashlight. Dug him out the next day with my grabber.

 

[lmm1967]

I thought mine died or hibernated. Nope. He was STUCK. Ding dong buried himself between two rocks and got wedged (I put my rocks down before I put sand in).

I spotted his nose one night when I was looking at critters with a flashlight. Dug him out the next day with my grabber.

That made me laugh - the situations some of these critters get themselves in to in in our tanks is funny. I wonder if the super low survival rate of many ocean / reef creatures is attributed to their ability to get themselves in to situations they never get out of.

I've had 3 things end up going down the drain and end up in the sump in the past 2 weeks.

 

[NanCrab]

Ditto on mine.
I'm running out of options on keeping my sand nice. I tried diamond gobies 3x and they all committed suicide. Now my GD conch is on strike...

I feel your pain. None of my snails stay on the sand. They’re either on the glass that I can clean with the magnetic cleaner or knocking my corals around. I’m glad they are keeping my frag plugs kinda clean but the sand literally looks like $#!+. My diamond goby jumped out probably as soon as the lights went out first night we had him. I haven’t tried a fighting conch or a tuxedo urchin yet. First of all I would have to spend a day trying to re-glue my frags down. The glue we used has not held up well against the Mexican turbos, secondly I’m having great success with corals so far (hope I didn’t just jinx myself saying that) but not so much with the alleged cleanup crew vertebrates. Fire shrimp, snails, crabs, corals all doing great. So far so good with “normal” fish, but dragonette, lawnmower blenny and now diamond goby....fail fail fail....maybe they don’t want to be stuck in an ugly tank either. Lol.

 

[Rainblood]

I thought mine died or hibernated. Nope. He was STUCK. Ding dong buried himself between two rocks and got wedged (I put my rocks down before I put sand in).

I spotted his nose one night when I was looking at critters with a flashlight. Dug him out the next day with my grabber.

Mines not stuck...I'd swear he uses that trunk as a middle finger and just sticks it up at me every night
Its all good as long as he's healthy.

 

[sharis100]

I feel your pain. None of my snails stay on the sand. They’re either on the glass that I can clean with the magnetic cleaner or knocking my corals around. I’m glad they are keeping my frag plugs kinda clean but the sand literally looks like $#!+. My diamond goby jumped out probably as soon as the lights went out first night we had him. I haven’t tried a fighting conch or a tuxedo urchin yet. First of all I would have to spend a day trying to re-glue my frags down. The glue we used has not held up well against the Mexican turbos, secondly I’m having great success with corals so far (hope I didn’t just jinx myself saying that) but not so much with the alleged cleanup crew vertebrates. Fire shrimp, snails, crabs, corals all doing great. So far so good with “normal” fish, but dragonette, lawnmower blenny and now diamond goby....fail fail fail....maybe they don’t want to be stuck in an ugly tank either. Lol.

When the quarantine lifts try another sand sifting goby - you can put netting over the tank inside your canopy until it gets settled and happy and hopefully avoid another jumper.

 

[Rainblood]

When the quarantine lifts try another sand sifting goby - you can put netting over the tank inside your canopy until it gets settled and happy and hopefully avoid another jumper.

This was my diamond goby experience and hopefully yours will be better. My tank is covered with the standard mesh lid that comes with a Nuvo40.

1. Small diamond goby jumped out of covered tank at night - don't know how
2. Medium diamond goby jumped out of covered tank at night - don't know how
3. Medium/large diamond goby beat itself to death on the mesh. It just kept jumping into the net until it pretty much bludgeoned itself to death

After #2 I told myself I'd not get another, but then my wife really likes them and wanted to try again. And then #3 was just a nightmare so I think we are done with the diamond gobies forever

 

[bzb]

I feel your pain. None of my snails stay on the sand. They’re either on the glass that I can clean with the magnetic cleaner or knocking my corals around. I’m glad they are keeping my frag plugs kinda clean but the sand literally looks like $#!+. My diamond goby jumped out probably as soon as the lights went out first night we had him. I haven’t tried a fighting conch or a tuxedo urchin yet. First of all I would have to spend a day trying to re-glue my frags down. The glue we used has not held up well against the Mexican turbos, secondly I’m having great success with corals so far (hope I didn’t just jinx myself saying that) but not so much with the alleged cleanup crew vertebrates. Fire shrimp, snails, crabs, corals all doing great. So far so good with “normal” fish, but dragonette, lawnmower blenny and now diamond goby....fail fail fail....maybe they don’t want to be stuck in an ugly tank either. Lol.

Two diamond gobies did same in my tank. Second one was quarantined in a 10G with no lid and two other tank mates... get him into the DT and he jumped out first night.

I lucked out with my lawnmower blenny. He's super "boring looking" but has a funny personality. Everyone picks on him and chases him away, he just pops out of another hole and starts pecking away at rocks like "whatever bruh"

I only have one really big snail. It's never knocked anything over, it stays on the underside of most rocks. Weirdo.

I have literally hundreds of tiny, pinhead sized stomatellas, and about a dozen that are much larger - shell like a fingernail. Once this crap is over, I'll gladly scoop some out for folks.

 

[bzb]

Heyyy look who came out to play. This is on the complete opposite side of the tank from where he got stuck, so maybe he learned his lesson.

Don't mind the camera hog butterfly. I should start her own gram. Or his. Whatever. I'm no fish pediatrician.

 

[Rainblood]

Here’s my lazy bum conch, lol.
Doesn’t move. Just sticks his eyes out and his nose feels around. I’ve put nori down right next to him but I think he largely ignores it.

 

[bzb]

Dang, what a lazy egg.