Kevin
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Post by Kevin on Mar 1, 2006 16:47:42 GMT
I received a tiger snail from eric today, wild caught in the Ivory Coast, and noticed it looked more narrow than my other tigers, and then noticed on the mainsite here www.petsnails.co.uk/index.php?action=species&species=achatina_achatinaThat theres several variants of tiger snails, I was wondering are the ones in captivity Achatina achatina var. achatina? a different variant, or are there several variants common in captivity at the moment?
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 1, 2006 17:01:15 GMT
I know achatina and depravata are kept in captivity, dunno what else
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Kevin
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Post by Kevin on Mar 1, 2006 17:08:29 GMT
I know achatina and depravata are kept in captivity, dunno what else depravata, really? Do you know if theres any pictures of living depravata online?
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 1, 2006 17:18:42 GMT
well, i don't know exactly if they are depravata but they are tigers without or with hardly any stripes, i'm sure theres a couple of peple with them
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2006 17:19:11 GMT
well can you show us a picture of this 'narrow' tiger? sarah i've never seen a depravata in captivity most of the captive tigers are achatina var. achatina
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 1, 2006 17:34:00 GMT
i'm not saying it is depravata, but there is tigers with no stripes although they don't look as light as depravata
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2006 17:36:37 GMT
probly just variation. anjie got a tiger from brixton once that nearly had a plain brown shell
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Kevin
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Post by Kevin on Mar 1, 2006 17:38:33 GMT
well can you show us a picture of this 'narrow' tiger? sarah i've never seen a depravata in captivity most of the captive tigers are achatina var. achatina Ive gotten 2 pictures of it, the Ivory Coast tiger is on the left, Its about 2cm less shell length than the other tiger snail, but a lot less bulky.
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 1, 2006 18:40:05 GMT
i have one that looks like the one on the left
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Post by Paul on Mar 1, 2006 19:01:54 GMT
If it's 150mm+ fully grown and has a pure pink columella it's var. achatina. If it the same but with a violet border to the inside of the lip it is roseolabiata.
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Post by sonicsnail on Mar 1, 2006 20:00:43 GMT
Wow! I didn't know there were as many variety of tigers as that! That's interesting, I thought there were only achatina achatina and two other variants. You learn something new everyday.
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Post by Ben snail on Mar 1, 2006 20:29:05 GMT
That would be so cool to have a depravata
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2006 11:24:22 GMT
It does look slightly unsual but I doubt its beyond the bounds of simple variation.
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gabi
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Post by gabi on Apr 6, 2006 14:09:15 GMT
I thought, this probably fits into this thread: here is a pic of 2 of my 3 tigers I got from Nat last November. Those are from the same lot like Pauls ones. Paul, I remember your tigers having stripes. This ones are not at all getting stripes. Have yours too not have stripes at these whirls?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2006 14:24:11 GMT
They don't look like any of the tiger sub-species. Maybe it's just normal variation from environmental factors.
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Post by Paul on Apr 6, 2006 16:18:04 GMT
Mine grow plain shell, and then the stripes appear later as the shell ages but by that size they have had stripes. If they are all like that and from the same parents as mine, it must be environmental differences.
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gabi
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Post by gabi on Apr 6, 2006 17:42:54 GMT
Hmmm, they get the same various food, like all my other snails and they are not piky eaters. They eat on all and everything. They havenĀ“t grown very much over winter. Most of the last whorl has been built in the past 3 weeks. Maybe the stripes appear in the next few weeks. Keeping you updated about my weird tigers.
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