ive been reading several sites on the net regarding mystery snails,i have two gold mystery snails and two i belive to be normal colored mystery snails,according to several sites mystery snails and apple snails are one in the same all of my snails are between quater sized and golf ball sized,and is there anyway to distinguish male from female ,as the type of snails mystery /apple have to have male and female to breed,unlike mt snails which go and do there thing by themselves,,however any one with any info on this will be much appreciated,and to the dorks out there ,,(keep it to yourself) ,,,,.thank you in advance!
2006-09-27 12:50:22 · 7 answers · asked by nirro187 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
Pomacea bridgesii, which is a species of apple snail that is great for a planted tank. They will not eat healthy plants and they love vegetables and fish flakes. They are sold under different names, including mystery snail, ivory snail, Inca snail, jade snail, and golden mystery snail. These sites discuss how to care/breed them http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/Lang_Apple_Snails.html , http://www.applesnail.net/ .
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2006-09-27 14:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by iceni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mystery snail is smaller than an apple snail. The mystery snail grows to be about the size of a golf ball or a little larger. The apple snail can get to the size of a baseball.
They are both good scavengers, but the apple snail seems to put out more waste than it cleans up.
Snails are both male and female in one, however, it always takes two to make little snails. They cannot fertilize themselves.
Pond snails, red ramshorn and trumpet snails can become a nightmare to control due to their breeding like small submersible rabbits... The apple and mystery snails are easily controlled because they lay their eggs above the water line and they can be scraped off and discarded.
Mystery snails are valuable in that you can sell or trade them to the pet stores for food or fish if they are allowed to do that. Some chains don't allow their managers to do it.
2006-09-27 15:21:23 · answer #2 · answered by 8 In the corner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mystery snail is called the mystery snail as it's extremely hard to tell the species apart. They are all of the Ampullariidae family. Another name used is the apple snail name. If they come from the same source there is good chance they are the same species. Males and female are nearly impossible to tell apart. Females tend to be larger, but size various with age, feeding, and other conditions.
2006-09-27 21:44:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are the same variety. The original brown colour form was known as the apple snail before golden mystery snails were selectively bred from mutations in the brown snails. There are many other colours available. In Australia ive seen black ones, in the US they have blue and ivory also. You can pick the males from the females by observing the penile sheath in a snail with an open shell.
2006-09-27 17:35:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that they are the same but yet they are not. They are the same because they are all small and are snails. They are diferent because they may eat different things or live a different place.
2006-09-27 13:10:01 · answer #5 · answered by miajj16 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They technically are....they share the same Family....Ampullaria but depending on color and traits could be a number of species out of this family. But they really are one and the same.
2006-09-27 13:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by megan145 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that ? is all up to u ...do u consider them to be the same or not the same ...example some people consider pen adn pencil to be the same some dont
2006-09-27 12:55:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋