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The food of choice would be an algae supplement, small or large algae wafers. A calcium block will help strengthen the shells. Apple snails will eat voraciously.

In this regular blog feature we present aquatic-themed oddities and curiosities discovered throughout the UK.

In this article, we picture a shop sign, that was formerly in use on our fish house premises. We had stored the fish house sign in a sealed storage container, which snails appear to have infiltrated and begun to munch on.

The sea slug then uses them to provide its own food, effectively deriving its own food from sunlight. It’s highly unusual for an animal to behave like a plant and survive solely on photosynthesis. Elysia chlorotica is a solar-powered sea slug!