I moved 3 years ago for school and I took down my 40 gallon aquarium and found homes for all its inhabitants, or so I thought. I put a bunch of the plants (Anubias nana, and Java fern) in a 5 gallon bucket with some aquarium water with the idea that I’d set up a neocaridina shrimp tank in an old 4 gallon tank I had.
After the move I dumped some aqua soil and the plants in that 4 gallon tank. Unfortunately none of the local fish stores carried shrimp or had them in stock so the tank just sat, no filter running or light other than ambient light. Well I got really busy with school and just kind of forgot about the tank. I’d fill it with water every so often to offset evaporation. Cue last week when I was filling it and noticed a snail in there…I haven’t added anything other than water for the last 3 years. I had Nerite snails in my main tank but thought I got rid of all of them.
I promptly emptied the tank, cleaned it out, and redid it. Frankly I am impressed by that snail.
tldr: I unintentionally neglected a Nerite snail for 3 years. Do not recommend doing it on purpose.
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Similar story, reused substrate for a pea puffer tank.
Found it on the wall a year later.
Promptly moved it and shocked the pea puffers left it alone.