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No. All apple snails are single sex which means you need a male and a female to produce offspring. Often apple snails are mistaken for ramshorn snails which ARE hermaphrodites and can actually mate with themselves when there are no other snails present. The easy way to tell the difference (because it can be confusing) is by looking to see how many sets of tentacles are present.

Apple Snails will have 2 pairs of tentacles one large set and one smaller set attached near it's mouth. (4 tentacles total).

Ramshorn snails will only have one set of tentacles. (2 tentacles total)

One other feature that apple snails have is a breathing siphon that sticks out just under the shell at the left side of the head. They have both a lung and gills which helps when things dry up a bit or oxygen levels in their habitat are very low. This siphon is hard to spot but doesn't exist on ramshorn snails, which only have gills.

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