Both Jon and I get a surprising amount of pleasure from watching our fish tank. Unexpectedly, the snails are even more interesting than the fish. Although the fish give the tank color, movement and a legitimacy it wouldn’t otherwise have.
We now have seven snails in our 39 gallon tank, three gold fish and lots of live plants.
It is a living evolving environment and Jr. the baby snail is the newest addition. He appeared one day on the top of a leaf and is growing steadily.
We’ll see him covering, what look like, large distances for such a small snail, scouring the sides of the tank for algae. Then he’ll disappear for a day or two, no doubt resting or foraging in the lower parts of the tank, too dense with plants for us to see him.
