Mark, I'd say your best bet is to just leave them out. Plenty of downsides to them and, unless you have fish or other species that eat them, not really any upsides, unless you like the red welt look and fish with weird appendages hanging off of them from parasitic growth! laugh

Seriously, I think there's been enough input here to convince me that the snails I have in my pond - they were already there, I didn't put them in - are going to have a date with some RES beginning this year possibly.

Like esshup mentioned, Zetts over near Martinsburg sells snails, but is the only fish supplier I've seen that actually recommends snails in several of their stocking "packages." I don't think I'd put them back in, though, if I were you.

Go Mountaineers! Less than 3 months to kickoff!


Todd La Neve

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