The scientific community would have you believe that snails come in many, many different varieties, but there’s a much simpler way to classify them: pesky and not pesky. Your typical garden snail (Cornu aspersum) helps keep the local ecosystem healthy by feeding on decaying matter, but it can also ruin your garden if not managed.

The point is that snails often exhibit both pesky and non-pesky behaviors, and the same applies to the subject of today’s discussion. They are known by many names: Pomacea bridgesii, the gold Inca snail, and the spike-topped apple snail – but for our purposes, the only name that matters is mystery snail.

Enigmatic, unpredictable, and mostly just downright strange, mystery snails make excellent clean-up crews in most tanks, although their behavior can leave you c

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