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Post by alexc1981 on Mar 8, 2006 20:35:08 GMT
I'm a little confused about the classification of dimi's.  I'm not sure whether I have an archachatina dimidiata or a achatina immaculata var dimidiata or dimidiata var two tone! Any ideas?     He is about 8 months old and I have had him for 6. the only growth he has shown since I received him is from where you can see the shell changes colour and most of that has been in the last two months. He is 3cm. |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 8, 2006 20:40:29 GMT
well both parents where dimidiata var. two-tone so i guess he is too!
Correction of Latin name for search purposes - paul
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 8, 2006 20:42:05 GMT
 These are his parents... |
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Post by Arno on Mar 8, 2006 20:45:01 GMT
you mean immaculata var two-tone  |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 8, 2006 20:45:42 GMT
umm yeah whatever smarty pants |
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Post by alexc1981 on Mar 8, 2006 21:21:22 GMT
Excellent. Now that I know for certain that he is of the achatina family I am free to find an archachatina of some sort to accompany him without fear of them laying eggs.  |
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LisaLQ
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Post by LisaLQ on Mar 8, 2006 21:37:43 GMT
He wouldn't lay eggs at that size anyway. Mine never have. Are yours from Virginia Cheeseman - if so, I may have their siblings *lol*
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 8, 2006 21:57:38 GMT
No it's from me :-)
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LisaLQ
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Post by LisaLQ on Mar 8, 2006 22:14:19 GMT
Ahh, I recognised the pic, that's all. Must have seen it on here!
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 8, 2006 22:16:24 GMT
those are Beth's snails
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LisaLQ
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Post by LisaLQ on Mar 8, 2006 23:08:17 GMT
Oooh hey up, now I'm confused. Is Beth the lady who passed hers on to VC? And was Alex's dimi from Beth too? Cos that'd mean they were still related *lol*
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KathyM
Achatina tincta
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Post by KathyM on Mar 9, 2006 9:33:07 GMT
I'm sure that pic was used on the VC site when we bought Justin and co Lisa - so it's most likely that ours are Beth's originally too.
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 9, 2006 10:13:27 GMT
Beth did pass some babies on to VC yes, but alex's snails was directly from Beth!
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KathyM
Achatina tincta
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Post by KathyM on Mar 9, 2006 11:55:00 GMT
Yesssss, but they're still related  |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 9, 2006 12:16:00 GMT
dunno, VC already had some babies...
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KathyM
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Post by KathyM on Mar 9, 2006 12:39:00 GMT
That's true - it could be just coincidence that they were about the same age and that photo etc.
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