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It's that time again. I needed to add more snails to my reef and frag tank. A friend placed an order with Keys Critters and had him include 100 astreas for me. What does 100 snails look like?









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My older astrea snails are looking pretty fuzzy these days with their coat of algae. I guess it was just too much for this emerald crab to resist. It was certainly too much for me to resist not grabbing my camera.

From AAP:
The snails have a cocktail of powerful agents in their venom, which they use to immobilise their prey, explains Professor David Adams who is director of the Health Innovations Research Institute at Melbourne's RMIT.

Research is under way to isolate those agents - peptides - which, he said, could be used safely to treat pain in humans as a less problematic alternative to morphine.

"In some of the old medical reports ...