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Post by kaidashade on Jun 4, 2018 12:36:03 GMT
Okay, a bit of a story to this. My tank contained 1 achatina reticulata and one achatina fulica snail at the time of this incident (have now got two retics in there but the second one was only introduced after this and is a baby). I came home one day to find my reticulata laying eggs, about five in total. A couple of weeks later, he laid two more. Has anyone ever heard of achatina reticulata self-fertilising or is it possible that these are some kind of weird hybrid? I've kept the last two to see if they're viable and what hatches out if they are, as it might shed some light on the matter.
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Elesari
Achatina achatina
albino lissachatina reticulata.
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Post by Elesari on Jun 5, 2018 14:52:44 GMT
I'll admit now I have no idea. I am very curious too. I have an Albino retic myself and was looking at getting him a Fulcia for company because I don't want to deal with eggs. But it may seem that would be pointless.. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for an update to this.
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Post by kaidashade on Jun 5, 2018 17:10:37 GMT
Y'see that's why i got him originally, thought it'd break up the fulica party i had going on at the time. But apparently he has other ideas.
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Post by etana on Jun 6, 2018 8:51:18 GMT
Giant African land snails occasionally lay small clutches of empty eggs as a sort of "test clutch" before they get to doing the real thing. If they never hatch, that's probably what's happened.
Hybrid pregnancies are risky and tend to not go well, so I hope it's not that. I don't know if a fulica/retic hybrid is possible at all (as some snails' genitals do not physically fit together in the first place, even if they try to mate) or if anyone has ever had one hatch/grow. I only know that the fulica are happy to woo anyone who as much as looks like a snail, but many other snails are more selective.
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Elesari
Achatina achatina
albino lissachatina reticulata.
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Post by Elesari on Jun 6, 2018 12:34:55 GMT
. I only know that the fulica are happy to woo anyone who as much as looks like a snail, but many other snails are more selective. That made me laugh alot more than I thought it would. Thanks for the info. Still debating on a friend for Max it seems. |
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Post by kaidashade on Jun 12, 2018 5:51:33 GMT
Update: Breakdown the retic has laid another egg. Didn't catch him in the act this time but it was a similar size and shape to the others so I'm gonna assume he's the culprit. Found him sat half on top of Megatron the fulica, who didn't seem to mind. Nothing has hatched yet, but I think it's early days.
Will check for more eggs after work
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Post by Liguus on Jun 12, 2018 14:18:31 GMT
I believe there is a list somewhere of which species of GALS can and cannot hybridize. I'll post it if I find it.
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Post by bettherbst on Oct 12, 2018 21:55:03 GMT
Actually it's rare but some snails are, able to self reproduce. Did the eggs hatch?
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Post by kaidashade on Oct 13, 2018 21:44:39 GMT
As far as I know none of the eggs he laid by himself hatched, but I got another retic (regular) a while back and now i have 32 lovely baby snails -.- Weirdly though, they all look to be albinos like the original offender in this tale and when I cleaned out the tank I also found 5 unhatched eggs. I will monitor their progress.
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