Home aquarium owners face many potential challenges. One common issue is invasive snails. Different species like trumpet snails, ramshorn snails, and bladder snails may infest a tank. It can seem ...

The magnificent ramshorn snail is found only in the Lower Cape Fear River basin. It was recently returned to the wild for the first time in decades. A near-extinct NC snail is back in the wild.

Andy Wood, a biologist, tends to tanks at his Magnificent Ramshorn snail refuge in Hampstead. Wood took the Magnificent Ramshorn into captivity in the early 1990s.

He put the snails in a tank at the Fort Fisher Aquarium, perched near the Atlantic Ocean. A week later, Wood checked on them only to find the snails drawn within their shells at the bottom.