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I got these snails more by accident than planning a couple of months ago when I went on a bit of a fish/ shrimp/ snail hunting trip to a creek on the way to The Narrows (north of Gladstone near Mt Larcom), apparently they where hidden in either the sandy and rocky creek bed or in the weed beds. I only discovered them after putting the Pacific Blue Eyes, Flyspecked Hardy Heads and shrimp into a holding tank to be sorted and inspected for disease or obvious parasites. In the time I have had them they don't seem to have grown any huge amount and annoyingly being true to form of other natives that I have caught and show no real interest in any prepared foods. I have no idea what snail they actually are, but they have a slight notopala look in their turban shaped shell. I thought I might keep a photographic journal of the snails to see as they grow and if they suddenly become more identifiable. Because they are so small and potentially easily lost in whole tank for now they are in a floating baby tank with some subwassertang in one of my tanks that all the Pacific Blue Eyes seem happy enough in. Ignore the MTS underneath the snail in question So far I still haven't been able to get a decent photo of their underside/ mouth parts or antennae.

Wow great work @NoGi especially seeing it evolve from @jayc first draft well done to you both.

Its even funnier when these same people that wanted "privacy" and a way of obscuring their identity get all bent out of shape when suddenly the powers that be track them down (possibly by posing as a buyer) and ruin their little illegal endeavours. Actually it poses a grey area in who has consumer law on their side when the seller of an illegal item eg snail, marimo moss ball fails to deliver on the promised item. True the buyer should have been aware that the item might not be allowable in the country but lets face it plenty of people never really look into if something is supposed to be here. Instead they see it for sale on Facebook, Gumtree etc and assume it must be legit to own.

If I include the nerites from Gladstone then I believe I have 4 species of native local snails. I have no idea if the little snails in the photos above will get bigger or if they are actually a small species of snail, I do know that there are quite a few species of tiny snails and its entirely possible that these little guys are not actually known about. I was interested to see in the last photo the white and seemingly long antennae on the snail, which to my mind puts these snails out of the notopala family since all the notopalas that I have seen all had thicker stumpier antennae.

It always surprises me how people want privacy and hide behind aliases on forums yet on Facebook they don't seem to have an issue publishing these illegal imports [emoji23]

I have a PS4, though the only multiplayer I play on it is world of tanks. I don't have a PS+ account, I just use the guys instead. He jokingly says that I'm too lazy to let him set it up for me, but can you blame me? Even with regular play it takes forever to level up crew, and I don't play all that regularly. I'm really more of a nintendo person though, splatoon owned my life for quite a while when I first got it, Seriously I've got over 300 hours of play...I have other games for the console, but splatoon by itself more than paid back the cost of the game and console! I've been avidly playing pokemon since Red and Blue.

That's kind of impressive... you could almost scape with it.

Should also be noted some of these parasites are quite intimidating.

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