Home

Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )

 
Reply to this topicStart new topic
Giant Ramshorn + Spixi Apple Snail =, blue apple snail?
PaulEbs
post Sep 15 2006, 04:53 PM
Post #1


Fish Addict
Group Icon

Group: Newsletter Team
Posts: 705
Joined: 17-May 06
From: Bucks UK
Member No.: 21365



Hey,

I have had a huge ramshorn and a burrowing spixi apple snail for over a year now, and they have never reproduced anything before [i wasn't expecting them to].

But the other day I noticed a baby Blue trapdoor apple snail crawling around..

Is it possible that this blue apple snail came from the ramshorn + spixi?

I havn't made any changes to the tank, and there's no way an apple snail some how got in there - as the tanks full of MTS and pond snails.

Cheers,

Paul.
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
three-fingers
post Sep 15 2006, 07:12 PM
Post #2


Leader of the Fishes
Group Icon

Group: Members
Posts: 2724
Joined: 23-July 06
From: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Member No.: 23161



I wouldn't have thought so, completely different species cant reproduce confused.gif . Maybe some snails are hermaphrodites and dont need two snails? Never heard of that, although i know any two garden snails(if they are the same species) can breed because there is no real male/female(or there is and they change sex, i cant remember which sleep.gif ).

I think however that its more likely the snail has been there since he was a teeny baby and you may not have noticed him because of the size, or maybe snails just take ages to actually produce eggs and when you got the snail it had already mated huh.gif smile.gif .
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
iSnail
post Sep 16 2006, 11:04 PM
Post #3


Fish Addict
Group Icon

Group: Members
Posts: 842
Joined: 1-June 06
From: UK
Member No.: 21773



Could it have come from any plants you bought before? unsure.gif
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
rain-
post Sep 17 2006, 02:54 AM
Post #4


Fish Addict
Group Icon

Group: Members
Posts: 666
Joined: 6-February 04
From: Finland
Member No.: 3846



Marisa and Spixi can cross, but the offspring is usually sickly and looks like a mix of those two with stripes and all. So I don't think the blue one could be from Marisa+Spixi cross. Are you sure it's a blue apple snail and not a small bluish snail of some other species? Any pictures?
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post

Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

Collapse

> Similar Topics

  Topic Replies Topic Starter Views Last Action
No New Posts Spixi Apple Snail
Asolene Spixi
0 catxx 1313 14th February 2007 - 11:54 AM
Last post by: catxx
No New Posts Baby Apple Snail
or so I think ..
7 karneval 219 26th June 2008 - 03:18 AM
Last post by: tangokitty
No New Posts Khuli Loach And Apple Snail
5 pixelpefekt 90 22nd July 2008 - 06:47 PM
Last post by: pixelpefekt
No New Posts Awsome Apple Snail Behavior
3 KraKen 100 16th August 2008 - 01:55 PM
Last post by: Wolfenrook
No New Posts For Sale - Golden Apple Snail Babies
- Manchester M34
0 Amerce 78 16th August 2008 - 11:31 AM
Last post by: Amerce


 

RSS Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 5th September 2008 - 10:22 AM