16 Vendémiaire CCXIV (October 7, 2005)
All of God's Creatures, They All Gotta Die
Let it be noted that dead snails have two problems: 1) it's hard to tell that they're dead, since they didn't move much when alive, and 2) they stink.
In other words: I spent several hours last night trying to get the smell of rotting mollusk out of my room after I picked up the snail during a tank cleaning, and all its insides fell out of his shell. That said, wikipedia tells me that the average lifespan of an apple snail is 1 year and, given this specimen's size (and the fact that I got it already full-grown and at least 2 years ago), I think it's safe to say that it lived a long and happy life.
Posted by g026r at 15:01










