Massive female apple snail

[HeatherSweetness]

This chick is so big she scares me.

The two small blue babies are EXACTLY the size of a dime.

 

[treefrog]

Good God she's huge!

 

[Fiddlesticks]

OMG That is one huge snail. Shes sooo cute

 

[Synastic]

*Looks around the room and says," Um Escargot."

Dang that's one freaking huge snail.

 

[tekknocolor]

HUGE!

Very cool though! I just got my first snail yesterday!

-- Leigh Ann

 

[MrMashashin]

Dang. That snail looks like it could suck up jaws!
Better yet BE the new jaws!

BEWARE of my deadly slow movement! she would say!
You, don't move! I'm gona eat'cha! she would say to you as your swiming in your pool or something.

 

[jacblades]

how old is she?

 

[SimonA]

That is huge

 

[Arashi]

WOW! Thats a freaking huge snail!

 

[Snowie]

I thought snails didnt have a sex?

 

[smithrc]

HUGE!

Very cool though! I just got my first snail yesterday!

-- Leigh Ann

same here - got 5 this morning...

I can only hope they get that big

 

[HeatherSweetness]

Apple snails have a sex,they're the only ones that do that I know of.

She's not quite a year old...I hope she stops growing.

 

[SimonA]

Can you get more photos of it?

 

[smithrc]

not quite a year old...

bloomin heck!

 

[smithrc]

having just been reading about sexing apples... it sounds like you've got a rare Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii

to quote www.applesnail.net

"Pomacea bridgesii is known in two varieties in the wild, which could turn out to be two different species. The rare Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii subspecies (Reeve, 1856), which is only known from the Rio Grande, Reyes River at Beni (bridges) and the Pomacea bridgesii diffusa subspecies (Blume, 1957), which inhabits almost the entire Amazon river system.
Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii is rather large (65mm shell height and more), while Pomacea bridgesii effusa is much smaller, has a much more pronounced spire and a darker shell colour"