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Slugs and Snails
Characterized by their shell and slow movement, snails are a common garden dweller and even a delicacy in some countries. Snails without shells are called slugs.
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Are apple snails and mystery snails the same and will they mate with each other?
Hey there, as far as i know they wont interbreed. All i have to say is make sure u have cover glasses coz those buggers can crawl out of ur tank pretty fast hahaha. :o) Catch mate.
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Apple snails and mystery snails are different. Apple snails get to be softball size while mystery snails stay smaller. I have an apple snail and an ivory mystery snail, my ivory is a female and I just saw the apple snail mating with her. She has just previously laid two clutches of eggs from my blue mystery snail that has just recently died and the eggs have not hatched yet so I am curious to see if the apple snail will fertilize her or not. I have tried to do research to see if they can even breed or not and have not found anything useful.What is the connection between salt and snail?
When you pour salt on a snail it dries up the snail making it bubble. It burns the snail and usually ends up killing it. This is why sometimes people surround their gardens with salt so snails can't come in and eat their plants.
Snails and slugs love to eat hosta. You can sprinkle snail bait to keep them away or used crushed egg shells or swimming pool sand to keep the snails away from your hosta.
Is your water snail dead if it is floating at the top of the water?
Not necessarily as lots of snails float from time to time. Pick it up and touch the foot with your finger and see if it reacts.
Why are land snails restricted to moist environment?
So they can soak up the water/moisture and use it for their slime trails and that's so they travel.
Female apple snails and male apple snails?
apple snails are single sex snails
Incorrect. Many snails are hermaphrodites but apple snails are not. They are indeed male and female apple snails. Go to http://applesnail.net/ for more information and how to sex them.
How do you tell when a female snail is pregnant?
that i know of no you cant tell if they are or arent.
A snail is faster because it has a body and a worm is like a string
How do you tell snails from each other?
In actual fact, snails are a species which are Hermaphrodites - which means they have both male and female sex organs. When a pair of snails mate, they both produce eggs which will grow in to charming baby snails. If you own snails as pets, it's a good idea to give them unisex names - or label one as the male and another as the female. For instance I have given one of my snails a boy's name (Archimedes) and the other a girl's name (Shelly).
How do snails survive in wetlands?
All snails need water to survive. I doubt that they will survive lack of water. First, water snails have to live in water, or else they will dry up (I know this from experience, because once my water snails crawled out too much that they crawled out of the aquarium. I found them underneath the dinner table, dried up like un-cooked pieces of macaroni.). I know garden snails will drown in water, but without water they dry out as well, and will go inside their shells and won't come out. So both types of snails won't be able to survive lack of water, in my opinion.
Where does a African land snail lives?
Snails can eat most fruit and vegetables and also need a cuttlefish to give them calcium. They also have beer, if you put a tiny bit on your finger they will drink it off.
Giant African Land Snails can eat banana peach plums melon pear mango Sharon fruit phylisalis paw-paw greens(spinach cabbage kale etc.)green beans corn on the cob they also like raw meat like mince and chicken cat/dog treats and biscuits wet of dry and brown bread.
Slugs and other gastropods use a specialized muscle as their only means of movement. They send ripples down their bellies in order to move. This is effective for pushing the animal forward and keeping a good grip but cannot provide much speed.
The name Pachnodus refers to a genus of snails that include Pachnodus velutinus a now extinct snail. they inhabited high forests, requiring constant humidity levels in excess of 90%. By the early 1990s, it was restricted to the dampest area of moss forests, and by 1994 it had become extinct. They lived from 1-2 years.
What do snails need to get out their shells?
The only way I know of is to strip down the tank, sterilise everything and replace everything that can not be sterilised. A method of keeping snails under control is to have Clown Loaches or Puffer fish in the tank. They will seek out and eat the snails.
Are garden snails and pond snails the same?
While both types of snails are mollusks, gastropods, to be more specific, the land snails have developed lungs to be able to breathe on land. Aquatic snails have gills, special organs that remove oxygen from the water. For this reason, land snails will drown if left in a bucket of water that they cannot escape from. Aquatic snails do not have the thick slime that land snails have and will quickly dry out,( if they do not suffocate first) when left out of the water.
Do mother snails die after they have babies?
Not usually. but occasionally depending on their age they will die.
How do you know if your pet snail is dead?
its shell drops off its body, or it lays upside-down on the bottom of the tank
Snails do not posses complex eyes in the sense that we do. Snails have light detecting cells located on the ends of stalks on their head. These eye stalks detect changes in light, informing them of a possible attack from a bird by its casted shadow.
Periwinkle snails are marine animals that are distributed in waters that include the western Atlantic Ocean and the eastern coastal waters of the United States and Canada. The periwinkle snail is a marine mollusk that has two tentacles.
Freshwater snails do not need a filter, but they prefer it. The more water movement, the cleaner they/their shell stays. I have 3 mystery snails in a 10 gallon and 2.5 gallon tank with a filter and they're doing very well, but I also have 5 baby mystery snails in an ice cream pail until they fully mature. They're doing well, too.
