Not everyone is a fan of snails, but there’s no denying the benefits they bring to a freshwater aquarium. Aquatic snails are fascinating creatures that bring color to a tank and help keep it clean.

Your typical garden snail (Cornu aspersum) helps keep the local ecosystem healthy by feeding on decaying matter, but it can ...

Keeping an aquarium is a challenging, yet deeply rewarding experience. You not only have to take care of the fish by giving ...

A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...

One lone shell of the so-called mystery snail washed ashore last summer at Flathead Lake, the likely source being illegal aquarium dumps into the jewel waterbody. The first local evidence of the ...

A Magnificent Ramshorn snail at biologist Andy Wood’s snail refuge in Hampstead. Wood took the Magnificent Ramshorn into captivity in the early 1990s. He has maintained a population of the snails, ...