Before reading I was quite sure the story was about a millionare

I can’t imagine he’s gotten very far.

I wouldn't think so. I looked all over. No snails in sight.

Sometimes they freak out and seal up for a while. It could be pretending to be a rock.

It's doing a great job

😢 ded 🐌

This exact same thing happened with the last shrimp I had. Rip Mr Shrimp Co.

Did you find your shrimp eventually?

He's on his way to touch a random stranger.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?

He obviously went on his way and is now living his best life in a nearby pond.

It's now trying to kill OP!

Poor Gary

Unfortunately not, in retracing my steps my best bet is that he was clinging to the filter which I took out first. But best of luck to you 🙏

I mean, our fished loves to eat the snails..

I didn’t think a crayfish could go far either but I was wrong.

I had one of those electric blue crayfish. I had fish before but compared to a crayfish they are way more interesting.

Anywho, had the crayfish for awhile. It was stationed in our dining room area. We had an apartment so the dining area was like right where we walked in. The crayfish was a lovely chap (until we found he was actually a girl, but that’s another story). It would eat pellet food, ate the goldfish we stuck in there, it was all good.

One day my wife was changing the water and after it was all done she left the fish net resting on top of the tank. We went out to do some shopping.

Couple hours later and we come home. I think it was winter time because we went to settle down on the couch with a blanket. I picked up the blanket off the couch and out drops our little blue girl. Scared the crap out of me because I was NOT expecting that. She was all dried and shriveled up. Turns out that net was close enough to the water that the crayfish decided to use it to climb out. That’s the only explanation we could come up with.

We drop her in the tank and she was floating. We kind of thought the worst and she would die but after an hour she sunk to the bottom. She ended up living a long life after that. Even had baby crayfish after we added a white one in there.

Anyway, long story short this little crayfish traveled a solid 20 feet, climbed our couch, and got into the blanket.

I once had an aquatic frog that escaped its tank. I looked for weeks and never found it, then one day I spotted a crispy little corpse in a floor vent down a carpeted hallway about 20ft from where the tank was. No idea how it got there or how long it survived out of the tank!

There is a possibility that I sucked up my blue shrimp and squirted him down the drain...

My little bio active tank has some alge. I let it build up too much and I couldn't see much. I thought both of my shrimp were dead... I start turkey bastering water and alge chunks out, and scraping the alge from the glass then I am startled by a shrimp ZOOMING by!!! .... there were 2 shrimp but now I only have 1. I don't know if he died in the tank or if I blindly sucked him out with a turkey baster and shot him down the drain. Either way...RIP Joaquin!

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I'm sorry to tell you but Bettas will eat snails. I think your snail may be gone 😔

Love your story, glad she survived her escapade:)

Just curious, what did you name her? My friend had a gorgeous bright blue betta, couldn't think of a name. I suggested Neptune, and she went with it, lol.

My first betta I named Caleb, just cause I liked the name, liked the history of it, figured I didn't have a good chance of naming a kid that some day if I had one. Then my sister had a baby boy...named him Caleb:) People teased her, "Oh did you name him after your sister's fish??" Lol...

RIP Joaquin! :(

I feel so bad after you told me these naming stories… her name had no significance. And I didn’t change it after she had babies.

RIP Johnny.

Crayfish can travel quite a long ways out of water. We caught some in a river near our house, brought them home, and put them in a tank. About half of them escaped overnight. My mom found the one while she was getting ready for work the next morning when it crawled out from under her dresser--apparently mobile dust bunnies with claws are quite terrifying.

We found most of the rest of them, but one of them just disappeared. We think maybe our dog ate it?

I could imagine a dust covered crayfish would be something to see lol

Glitch in the Matrix. It happens.

My mom REALLY doesn't like creepy-crawlies of any description, so it was extra traumatizing.

If he did he escape via my sump pump into a historic blizzard haha

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Sorry about your snail:(

When I was little, maybe 7 or 8, my mom's bf had a tank with an Oscar fish and an algae eater fish.

Well, one day they decided to get one of those little aquatic frogs for the tank. My sister and I were soooo excited, just instantly in love, he was so incredibly adorable!

A day or two later, Freddy goes missing. Mom and bf say, "Oh well, guess he got eaten." Sis and I are heartbroken.

Day or two after that, there goes Oscar swimming around with two teeny webbed feet hanging out of his mouth. Sis and I are horrified.

They figured he was hanging out in the top of the tank, scared for his life (justifiably so, as it turned out!), but he couldn't stay there forever, poor thing:(

Oh my God. That's horrifying. I feel closer to you through shared trauma my friend.

This snails body without its shell was larger than the head of the betta

You might say it’s rockin’ it.

Yeah they can still eat them in pieces

Bummer. I'm certain it was not eaten by that means my research was bad that it would be a good tank mate.

Bird took it

Heh. Had oscars before myself. They honestly look at the world as "Can I eat it, or will it eat me?" If they can get part of it in their mouth they will do their damnedest to swallow the thing.

It happens. Had so many fish eaten over the years while learning. Don't feel too bad. Could also just have died

Awww RIP Johnny girl:(

Well...her life had some significance...cause it gave you a story, that made me chuckle lol:)...just teasin'

Depending on the size of the snail, I’ve heard of bettas eating them.

Awww thanks friend...yeah we loved that little froggie so much, even though we only had him a day or two...

To go with the theme of this thread:

RIP Freddie, and the OP's poor little snail:,(

Yup...and I'm pretty sure that AH knew that, or he should've at any rate! I don't know if his drunk ass was thinking, "Let's just see what happens, ha ha!" or if he really was that ignorant and irresponsible, maybe thinking because it was a frog and not a fish that he'd be okay...

You're a good person, looking for that snail to save it. I applaud you, internet stranger

Family member had a hermit crab as a kid… It got out of its tank somehow and almost cleared the room, until they walked in to get something. Like two steps in, and before they could turn on the light (hanging switch in the center), their bare foot made contact with something cold, wet, soggy and hard as the poor crab was yeeted across the dark room, under a dresser. They SCREAMED bloody, freakin MURDER!!!

After the light was turned on and a brave soul with a broom stick managed to fling the poor thing out, they realized it was the crab, tangled in a mess of dirt, hair and lint. After a good rinse, the no longer abysmal dust bunny was returned to their tank and lived out the rest of its life with no problems. Still escaped a few more times though…