• stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      12 hours ago

      My aquarium snails are awesome, salt and freshwater…so many cool little cleaners. Wild caught snails can have parasites but as long as you wash your hands, don’t lick or kiss, and keep it out of your mouth you should be ok.

      I haven’t ordered from here but it’s a good place to look at pet snails (terrestrial).
      https://www.snailysnail.com/buy-live-pet-snails-online

      I have ordered from this site; snails arrived alive and are thriving (marine and freshwater).
      https://www.liveaquaria.com/

      I just wish I could build an ocean thermal vent so I could have scaly-foot gastropods, the most metal of snails. Literally, they have metal scales.

      • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        40 minutes ago

        My pea puffers love aquarium snails.

        Such a fun little crunch pop squish, I assume it’s like aquarium gushers

        • stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          29 minutes ago

          Pea puffers are so cute! I wish I had doscovered them before populating my 20g fresh with other fish. I do want to eventually have a tank with them. We have a 21g salt water AIO that’s being decomissioned (moved it to a 120) that I might explore converting to fresh water.

          I totally get the crunchy pop gushers. We had bladder snails in one tank amd when I was showing my wife how easy they were to squish if we wanted to do manual removal…it burst right into her mouth. She wasn’t happy.

          The clown loach we hired to take care of the snails did a great job, but, sadly, then wouldn’t eat anything else and starved itself.

          I’ve thought about getting one for the malaysian trumpet snails in my other tank but would hate to see another one go the same way. Although, those trumpet snails would feed them for a long while; feeding time turns the substrate into a crawling writhing mass of spiral shells. They do keep the bottom of the tank clean!

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    30·
    19 hours ago

    ‘California Academy of Sciences’ sounds like a professional organization, but it’s actually a museum open to the public. I went over a decade ago but it’s one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. They have an indoor, 4 story rainforest greenhouse dome thing filled with plants, free flying birds, and a bunch of other animals. They’ve also got a nice planetarium and natural history exhibits. Their green roof was great when we saw it, it’s just my ideal fantasy solar punk building.

    TL;DR: Lots of pics here. Go to the California Academy of Sciences if you’re ever in San Francisco, because it’s at the Golden Gate Park and you’re probably going to want to go there anyway.