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tektite
04/17/2013, 12:56 PM
So I brought a tank home on March 22nd, 26 DAYS ago...the tank came with a 5 gallon bucket full of dirty live sand - just 1" of water on top of it, with an airtight lid. Not having time to clean it I stuck the bucket out on my back patio.

Finally opened it today, and found a cerith and a nassarius snail alive!!!

They sat in 1" of nasty water in an airtight container for 26 days. Over that period of time the high temp was 86, the low temp was 36! Largest 1 day temp change from day to night was 35 degrees (high of 71, low of 36). An average of a 13.8 degree temp change every day.

Talk about survivors! I still can't quite believe it myself.

BrandonFlorida
04/17/2013, 02:10 PM
Thats some hard core snails!

worm5406
04/17/2013, 02:26 PM
DINNER... Nice and tenderized.

djp2313
04/17/2013, 03:13 PM
Thats awesome, guess I shouldn't have been so surprised to find a nassarius snail 2 weeks after taking everything but water and sand out of a tank I was breaking down.

tektite
04/17/2013, 03:19 PM
The shocking thing was them living despite temps of 36 degrees! We almost hit freezing that night.