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Aquarium Advice Regular
I've had this little white apple snail for 3 or 4 weeks now (got him after losing a black mystery snail). I never expected him to be such an active & entertaining member of the community! He never stops crawling around the tank, every time I check he's in a different spot. He loves to climb to the top of my tallest plastic plants (near the surface) and then sort of jump off & glide back down to the bottom. He doesnt even suck into his shell when he falls, just lands right on his little foot & keeps going, it's hilarious to watch. Last night I was surprised to walk into my living room to see him floating in the middle of the tank among my hatchetfish! I would have been worried, but when I lost my mystery snail I read a lot about them, and apparently when a snail's lung is completely full of air, they are light enough to float. He kept drifting into the HOB filter output & getting blown to the bottom, only to drift back to the surface, LOL. Here's a pic I snapped of him a couple weeks ago when I caught him sitting in the middle of the glass slowly extending & retracting his breathing tube over & over.