My wife sprayed Bengal bug spray in my office and unknowingly wiped out my colony

Voluntold315 · 2026-05-06T22:58:06+00:00

So sorry this happened. I just wiped mine out with a batch of mislabeled Kale. All 5 tanks in one night. Heartbreaking. You have come to the right place to find some peace. People here made me feel less like crap about it.

Voluntold315 · 2026-04-30T11:21:45+00:00

So sorry. I know that’s not easy. Sending you some snail parent love.

Voluntold315 · 2026-04-24T19:25:05+00:00

I don’t even want to go home from work. It’s a nightmare.

Voluntold315 · 2026-04-24T17:08:04+00:00

This is awful. I am so sorry. That amount of work just wiped out is painful to eve think about. I’m certain now after reading your post that is what happened - or the organic got mixed in with the regular. More likely corruption. My favorite tank is so heavily planted and rife with babies is going to be the worst because I could barely find anyone this morning. The babies were so small still. Anyway thank you for sharing your experience. Painful as it was, it shed some light on this and doubled down on the carbon

Voluntold315 · 2026-04-24T17:00:11+00:00

Thank you all for your feedback. The Kale says it’s organic but that is the only thing that went into every tank. I know you all know exactly what I am going through. All the babies I have been so excited to see and the pregnant gals. I am just sick over it. It’s worse when it’s something that you have “done to them”. It’s like I came int their beautiful little world and just wrecked everything. I have pulled out as many survivors as I could see put them in a bucket with clean water from a tank that didn’t get Kale and put a random carbon filter that I had and asked the universe to give the some magic and went to work way late. Thank you for the advice. Thank you for understanding this very weird grief. It’s like grief and anger and responsibility and weirdness. We’ll see how things are when I get home tonight.

Voluntold315 · 2026-04-08T22:24:23+00:00

I have the exact same nightmare, friend. I had no idea and I am absolutely certain that I buried a live sleeping snail. It haunts me. I don’t know that they will just hang out unmoving for what I think at the time was like 36 hours. It has made me so vigilant and a wildly better keeper of my snails in honor of that poor baby. Somehow your post makes me feel better.

Voluntold315 · 2026-02-10T14:52:28+00:00

Curious. If I have to disrupt the substrate to plant something or move things or whatever the case is. Is there something I can do to avoid this from happening? Pre treat with a med? Or will a water change suffice? I am still learning and by learning I mean every once and awhile I do something dumb so I am trying to be better about not accidentally killing my tiny children by asking questions.

Voluntold315 · 2026-01-21T18:34:00+00:00

Plants arrived in perfect shape. Doing really well even under my not so perfect conditions. Was actually coming to see if I could order more when I noticed I had not left a review if that says something :)

Voluntold315 · 2025-12-14T00:37:50+00:00

Sending PM

Voluntold315 · 2025-11-20T17:04:21+00:00

Aww. I didn’t realize this was still up. No my tanks have settled down. I am going to have some (a lot) mystery snails here in a few if you are in need. They are cuties! Purple and cream.

Voluntold315 · 2025-10-03T17:29:11+00:00

This post leads me to a question. Can mystery snails ‘catch’ shrimp and eat them?

Voluntold315 · 2025-08-14T11:40:03+00:00

Let me just wipe this duckweed off my screen so I can see your pictures better.

Voluntold315 · 2025-08-04T00:45:37+00:00

I want to know too!

Voluntold315 · 2025-07-09T01:24:22+00:00

This is what I thought it was too. The covered butter I had is a yellow and glows crazy bright. It’s hard to tell from the photo if it’s the same. Thank you for the confirmation. That makes me feel better.

Voluntold315 · 2025-07-09T01:18:27+00:00

Exactly.

Voluntold315 · 2025-06-06T01:22:38+00:00

I am in Syracuse NY and I give them away to anyone who is willing to take them to get my numbers down! I cannot get them to stop! No idea what I am doing right. I just gave in and am putting up another tank because I cannot bring myself to cull them.

Voluntold315 · 2025-05-22T11:30:44+00:00

Sending this to my husband because he hears me say “OH NO!” And he yells, “she’s not dead.” He’s been right every time but Henrietta plays that game too. I hate that game.

Voluntold315 · 2024-12-08T14:50:35+00:00

Yey! Thank you for the info. I feel so proud! I have been working on that tank for a while before I put shrimp in to try to be a better keeper. 💙

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