The goal is to remove the pesky non-native and quickly reproducing snails along the River Walk whenever they are spotted. The snails are the size of a large apple and lay bubblegum-pink egg clusters that can contain up to 2,000 eggs.
Courtesy / San Antonio River Authority
The snails, native to South America, are a popular home aquarium species first found in the downtown San Antonio River in October 2019, likely due to an illegally dumped pet. The quickly reproducing snails, which are the size of a large apple and lay egg clusters that can contain up to 2,000 eggs, could negatively impact native species if they make their way further down the San Antonio River. The goal is to remove them along the River Walk whenever they are spotted.
Since the snails’ arrival, residents have often requested information from the river authority on the latest data about the snails, Donovan said. Scraping parties — removing the snails and eggs where they were attached to the river’s retaining walls — became a regular activity for authority staff in early 2020, when it wasn’t clear yet how many apple snails were in the river, Donovan said.
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