[Faline]

How Apple snails save the Pantanal from the floods - with the help of their secret weapon, a snorkel!

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kvm72

The apple Snail
Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum. This family is in the superfamily Ampullarioidea and is the type family of that superfamily.
The Ampullariidae are unusual because they have both a gill and a lung, the mantle cavity being divided in order to separate the two types of respiratory structures. This adaptation allows these snails to be amphibious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullariidae
http://www.applesnail.net/

[Blewvane]

Wonder if the french eat these ones?

[K9Grip]

A friend of mine had a few in her fish tank, really pretty and huge!

[collaredgirl65]

[zombie-rot420]

Sweet Slimey Snails, its a sweet slimey snail.

[banana dick]

awesome creatures! they're so cute too.

[Sandbwoy]

Snorkelling snails! Whatever next?

[aaargh]

I had one in my tank, 3 months later I had near 200. Don't add to aquarium.

[K9Grip]

Originally Posted by pard'ner ↗

I had one in my tank, 3 months later I had near 200. Don't add to aquarium.

I added the smaller snails for my cichlids to crush and they multiplied by a thousand in like two or three days. All over my filters too...it was a PITA to get rid of them.