One of the most unique and underappreciated members of the Trochidae family is the Stomatella Snail. With a thin, fingernail-shaped shell and a sea slug-like appearance, these snails are adept at getting into all the nooks and crannies of your…
High Speed Snail Chase And Dueling Hermit Crabs
Remember that time that Blue Planet first wowed us with up close videos of marinelife? We hadn’t until the BBC uploaded a few clips from the venerable nature documentary series which will soon be followed up by Blue Planet 2. …
Snail Snack a new food for large marine fish
Snail Snack is a new aquarium fish food which caught our eye at InterZoo 2016. Snail Snack is a bottle of dried marine snails which are perfect for feeding large marine fish, triggers, angels and puffers as well as invertebrates in…
Great Guns of Brixton! New snail named after the Clash’s iconic Joe Strummer
A deep sea snail with purple blood, spiked shell and living near hydrothermal vents are so reminiscent of the punk rock movement of the 1970s and 80s, the team that discovered a new species named it after Joe Strummer, the…
Vermetid snails are bad for stony corals, coral crabs keep em in check
We always believed that vermetid snails were bad for corals in aquariums, but now there is real scientific evidence and observation to support the same conclusion about corals in the wild. In case you are not yet familiar with them, vermetid snails…
