Baby blues

[dixienut]

well i finally found my 2 baby blue briggs i got from Rachel, they were hiding, and came out so i grabbed them and put them in my smaller tank so i can watch them better, so tiny and cute and baaaad,...lol


http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t25/dixienut/100_1474-1.jpg
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t25/dixienut/100_1495.jpg
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t25/dixienut/100_1494.jpg
and here is one of Rachel's purples been bothering my young ivory so much i had to move him to another tank, lol as you can see he's all man,.......lol
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t25/dixienut/100_1461.jpg

[Nolapete]

Very cool!

[jackiomy]

I am so jealous. Such precious babies. What color are their little foots?

[dixienut]

same color as the purples blue/gray with orange speckles

[Fish-Addict]

theyre very cool!

[grannylvsfish]

what colors make blue?? I have a few coming, Im so excited. but so confused as to how blues are made.( I looked at the chart it confued me more ) these are so pretty dixienut!!

[black_sun]

Awww, so cute!

[AquaGem]

So cute! Love their colors!

[msjinkzd]

Yay! Glad you found them! Sneaky little things :D

[dixienut]

what colors make blue?? I have a few coming, Im so excited. but so confused as to how blues are made.( I looked at the chart it confued me more ) these are so pretty dixienut!!

ivory and a dark footed wild or purple should get you a few
but no guarantees

Parent 1: Ivory
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Parent 2: Wild
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Total recombinations: 414

Blue: 29.47%
Ivory: 29.23%
Red-White: 3.86%
Red-Brown: 3.62%
DSP CSB: 3.62%
Golden: 3.14%
Jade: 3.14%
Peppermint: 3.14%
Gold Striped Ivory: 3.14%
Plain Magenta: 2.17%
Dark Plain Magenta: 2.17%
SP Magenta: 1.93%
DSP Magenta: 1.69%
Gold Striped Blue: 1.21%
Striped Yellow: 0.97%
Wild: 0.72%
Burgundy: 0.72%
Dark Striped Olive: 0.72%
Plain Violet: 0.72%
DSP BG: 0.72%
Plain Burgundy: 0.72%
Dark Plain Burgundy: 0.72%
Dark Plain Violet: 0.72%
Dark Burgundy: 0.48%
Dark Plain Olive: 0.48%
SP Violet: 0.48%
DSP Violet: 0.24%

this is what the color calculator came up with for ivory/wild type cross


Yay! Glad you found them! Sneaky little things :D

yea i saw one and seen one next day couldn't tell if same one or 2 so glad i found them both one was out the there was a tiny bit of blue sticking out from under the sand,.. he he thought he buried himself all the way but no i saw it, and plucked him out,..lol their worse than little kittens always getting into things and hiding,...messing with your head,...lol

[Hollygirl]

They are so beautiful! I've never seen that shade of blue in a snail - never. Really nice color! Good luck with them.

[stezatois]

very pretty snails. i so want some blues.

[dixienut]

if my clutch is fertile from the dark purple and ivory the clutch may have some blues in it just a guesstiment from the snail calculator
Parent 1: Ivory
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Parent 2: DSP Violet
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Total recombinations: 209
Blue: 32.54%
Ivory: 32.06%
Gold Striped Ivory: 4.31%
Red-White: 3.83%
Peppermint: 3.83%
DSP CSB: 3.83%
Red-Brown: 3.35%
SP Magenta: 2.87%
Plain Magenta: 2.87%
DSP Magenta: 2.87%
Dark Plain Magenta: 2.87%
SP Violet: 0.96%
Plain Violet: 0.96%
DSP BG: 0.96%
Dark Plain Violet: 0.96%
DSP Violet: 0.48%
Gold Striped Blue: 0.48%

but its a lottery right?

[stezatois]

ooo peppermint sounds good :)

[pik01]

do they keep that bright shade of blue as they age? They're gorgeous :)

[msjinkzd]

They do, sometimes it gets a more grey cast to it.

[Lupin]

Nice snails.:)