plah.... ramshorns are members of the apple snail family and are not hermadiphoric. I think you are reffering to malaysian trumpet snails. just check out www.applesnail.net.plah831 said:ramshorns are another good feeder snail. Both they and pond snails lack an operculum, or the trap door that snails can close on predators. Both are very common hitchhikers in live plants. I got a sizable breeding colony of common ramshorns from my LFS for free. I was actually doing them a favor by helping clean them out of their display tanks
Both ramshorns and ponds are great for breeding as feeders because they're hermaphrodites (unlike snails of the mystery family) so can mate with anyone else of the same species, so in essence can mate twice as much as mystery snails that must find someone of the right gender.
well, that's all very confusing.... I was referring to the brig ramshorn..... why must they have such confusion with common names? how do i make sure I mean the one I mean? and I knew that about brig RHs and MTS.... please cdon't go overboard expalining things like that. it's kind of rude, and makes me feel dumb.plah831 said:I breed them and they are indeed hermaphrodites http://www.e-aquarium.com.au/ramshorn_snail.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramshorn_snail
Ramshorns (including common, red, jewel) belong to the family Planorbidae. Mystery/brig/canas/apple are Ampullariidae.
The only "ramshorn" snail that is an Ampullariid is Marisa cornuarietis or the Columbian ramshorn or Giant ramshorn. But the ramshorn name, common name, for this species refers only to the shape of the shell, and not its taxonomy.
Malaysian trumpet snails are also hermaphrodites, but they don't lay eggs. They produce crawl-away baby snails, so are "livebearers".