Apple Snails

[Spishkey]

are they hermaphrodites or will i need to buy a few to up my chances of getting a m and f and breeding them?

if i need male and female is their anyway to tell the difference by looking at them, or is it 'all on the inside'?

 

[ollyhtafc]

http/www.applesnail.net/

Go to Ecology on that site. Or infact just have a read...useful.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

There are males and there are females.... (I think the difference is in the cover pod, with the male's being hollow, and the female being bulged slightly)... I breed them in my outside ponds where I cut off the bottom of 2l coke bottles and submerge the open end, so that the inside stays moist.... They get out of the water & lay their eggs above water level, and there is a huge difference in hatching periods..... some hatches within 2 weeks, whilst I sometimes find them hatching after 6 weeks..... I do not know what influences the rate of hatchings..... They then just fall to the bottom (lots of algea in the ponds) & grow naturally.... about 4 months before they are "Snails"

 

[saz326]

.....(removed).... I cut off the bottom of 2l coke bottles and submerge the open end, so that the inside stays moist.... They get out of the water & lay their eggs above water level.

That is a Pure Genius idea there fella.

No wonder people have been borrowing your brain.

 

[OldMan47]

The apple snails are definitely male and female, not hermaphrodites. The reference to applesnail.net is a good one. For specialized snail information, you want to go to the experts and they do hang out there. It is where I would go if I ever get serious about breeding snails.