So we're supposed to have baby snails by now, and the weird part is that we do, but they aren't mystery snails; they're zebra snails. And okay, we did get a couple of adult zebra snails, but if they laid any eggs anywhere we never saw them; they're hatching (well, appearing, so I assume hatching) in the same tank we put the mystery snail eggs in; ( Read more... )

So yesterday morning Hubby found one of our snails on the outside of the fish tank, instead of the inside. It had climbed out and was sitting on some plumbing near the bottom of the tank around the back; really, it's only sheer luck he spotted it but that was helped by it being fairly large (a little over an inch across; it's a "mystery snail") and ( Read more... )