Illegal mystery snails?!
So I've been out of the hobby for 6 years (I was renting a house and wasn't allowed to have aquariums) bought a house last year and I'm starting to get back into it, I am in shock that mystery snails are now illegal!!! I went to my local pet store and asked when they were going to get some mystery snails and the lady told me they are illegal! Crazy!
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Welcome back to the hobby Cory! Unfortunately/fortunately, in the past many years, the state of Georgia has changed the rules for a lot of common critters. The most common of which are: Assassin snails, Mystery/Apple Snails, Duckweed, and Marimo Moss balls, which have all been made illegal.
What made these organisms popular in the hobby is also why they are illegal, since they could tolerate a wide range of parameters and outcompeted their tankmates, they became popular to the point that people began releasing them into the wild. They were frequently being released, both intentionally and unintentionally, leading to the same success in wild as they did in captivity, but devastating the local ecosystems in the process.
If you ask me, renting an entire house and still not being able to have even one Aquarium should also be illegal! What are you even supposed to do with all of the rooms in the house if you don't have any aquariums to fill them with?!!