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Post by lorisarvendu on May 30, 2007 21:23:29 GMT
I've got a couple of adult fulicas, and their shells are getting quite dark compared to other photos I've seen. Are their shell patterns and colouration related to what they eat? I keep them in sphagnum moss peat, which is quite dark.
Dave
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 23, 2007 14:06:59 GMT
Hi all I'm a bit new and don't post much (apart from my fulica stuff in Pictures), but I've been thinking. I've got 2 fulicas, who are presumably siblings. I bet their parents were siblings, and maybe further back than that. I've read some comments on here about fulicas being small or having problems, maybe due to inbreeding, and it occurs to me that every time someone gets a pair of snails, they're probably closely related. Now I know snails don't get about much in the wild, so most in a given area will be closely related anyway, but because most people (myself included) often get pairs of related snails and breed from them, maybe we're not doing the best for genetic diversity? Perhaps a bit of swopping would be a good idea, or getting one example of a species from one place and one from another. Kab has just got 353 new Tiger babies and I bet a lot of people would love one or two of them (myself included ), but that'll mean a lot of inbreeding going on, unless everyone's careful. After all, smaller sized fulicas might be down to inbreeding, and I don't think anyone would want Tigers to start shrinking! Am I barking up a wrong tree here? Any thoughts? Dave
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