I have a question. Will the Asolene spixis snails interbreed with the Pomacea diffusa snails? Are they compatible?
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I keep both together- they don't produce offspring.
The male spixis love to mate with the diffusa but they don't produce offspring together. Both apple snails but in a different genus.
Spixis try mating with EVERYTHING! I even saw one that I swore was trying to mate with a tylo- and you can't get much different than that.
Spixis CAN and do successfully cross breed with Marissas.
The male spixis love to mate with the diffusa but they don't produce offspring together. Both apple snails but in a different genus.
Spixis try mating with EVERYTHING! I even saw one that I swore was trying to mate with a tylo- and you can't get much different than that.
Spixis CAN and do successfully cross breed with Marissas.
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LMAO! I remember the days when we would post snorno pics.:rofl: :rofl:erv:
... and Spixis ARE the Ron Jeremy's of the Snorno world!
The one observation I have made is that spixi males prefer their females big. They tend to prefer mating with Briggs than their own species- I'm not sure if there is any stress for the female brigg being jumped on by a hormone fueled spixi- but the larger the female the more interested my male spixis seem to be.
This would be perhaps the only problem from keeping them together- the females being stress from excess copulation.
(BTW from what I've read: in the Spixi/Marisa hybrids the male is always a spixi and the female is always a marisa- never the other way around- spixi males are real hornballs... you can safely keep female spixis with marisas without significant worry about hybridization... although I suppose... never say never)
It should also be noted that Briggs are often kept in planted tanks and Spixis have a reputation as plant-nibblers, especially when young. I've found my spixis do very little damage to vegitation though and this isn't a worry- just give 'em veggies and they won't hurt your plants. (but have a backup plan just in case).
Because Spixis and Marisa can hybridise though- some Spixis may have some Marisa genes in them- Marisa ARE plant killers. Make sure your spixis are pure spixis if you're putting them in a planted tank.
My snails are in a planted tank (along with Tylos and Faunus both reported by some to eat plants) and I have very little plant damage as long as I keep on top of giving the snails veggies.
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Actually it should never be the other way around because there is a very high risk the female spixi will be crushed to death if the marisa was the one mating it.