Mystery snail help

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Ive had this mystery snail for about a month or so and over the time his shell has been turning white and has green streaks on it. I have some big fish with him and i dont know if its them just knocking them around. His shell is like thinner in some areas, almost transparent.

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fishhead0103666

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It looks like a calcium deficit, I'd get some cuttle bones and chuck them in the tank.
 

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It looks like a calcium deficit, I'd get some cuttle bones and chuck them in the tank.
Hello; This makes some sense and is similar to what I am thinking. If a needed mineral is lacking such a result could happen.
I was thinking more along the lines of a food source having an influence on the shell color. Not so much a deficit of something as the food source available adds something which might be incorporated into a shell.
There has been a spoiler in my tanks in the last 50+ years. I have had snails nearly the whole time. Plenty of calcium in my water and 99% of the snails have a common shell color. However a few have grown out with white shells. May be a genetic difference or some other sort issue.
 
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MrsE88

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I agree with fishhead. Cuttle bone and make sure you are feeding it.
 

Deadliestviper7

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Cattle bone, sometimes the necessary nutrients and minerals arent in the water
 
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