lucas
Achatina achatina
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Post by lucas on Nov 2, 2019 22:10:09 GMT
I went to the critters pet store recently to buy some cherry shrimp and yellow clams. When I was looking at them and I noticed a bunch of snails in the tank. I asked what they where and the employee said they where pest snails that they where trying to kill. I thought they where baby ramshorn snails so asked if I could have some and they said yes so I got two of them. When I got home I looked at baby ramshorn snail pictures on the internet and noticed that mine aren't baby ramshorn snails. They look like mini ramshorn snail but mine are pink! I can't find any pictures of pink mini ramshorn snails. Does anyone know if they are mini ramshorn snails or not and does anyone have any information about mini ramshorn snail because I can't find any care information about them and if you search for mini ramshorn snail online all I can find is people asking how to kill them. Anyone have any tips on breeding them? here are some pictures of them. ibb.co/5YP5n7cibb.co/23H62W4ibb.co/wLL9yBz
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Post by littlegoldsnail on Nov 3, 2019 1:11:49 GMT
Just a common, domestic color variant of the ram. They do look pretty young. Sometimes they get pinker as they get older, sometimes more of a solid brown, depends on genetics. Looks like they have pretty good looking pink on the bodies, if you take the pinkest ones with the most desirable shells and breed them then you might come out with some very nice looking babies.
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Post by littlegoldsnail on Nov 3, 2019 1:15:11 GMT
Pink and red bodied rams are very very common, the ones with the blue shells are very popular but harder to get your hands on. A lot of people look for the hints of pink to breed them to get the deep reds are bright pinks cause those ones are more sellable and look prettier.
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Post by littlegoldsnail on Nov 3, 2019 1:16:00 GMT
They do look pretty!🙂
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Post by wolf on Nov 4, 2019 9:21:39 GMT
Hi lucas, I'm pretty sure that your snails belong to the genus Gyraulus (family Planorbidae). The exact species are difficult to determine. They should't get much larger than a few millimeters. Kind regards: wolf
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