Do Different Snail Species Fight?

[Fish Kate]

Hi there...I added a second snail (it was sold to me as a "ramshorn" and I think it is a Marisa cornuarietis) to my 10 gal (I had one that I believe to be a Pomacea canaliculata "golden mystery snail"). They didn't seem to notice one another for the first three days, but when I came home from a weekend trip I found them right next to eachother, pushing their shells together like two linemen! They also kind of circled eachother a bit and seemed to be kind of feeling (or attacking?) eachother. I figured they couldn't be mating since they are different species. When I did my water change the turbulence separated them...now they are sitting on the same lettuce leaf, munching away.

I thought all the apple snails got along -- are they aggressive towards one another? Territorial? Could they hurt eachother? Or were they just playing around?

 

[wataugachicken]

ramshorns have the flat spiraled shell rather than a rounded or conical one.

i would guess that your ramshorn was trying to mate with a rather unwilling mystery snail. they kinda like to mate with everybody, whether or not it will actually produce baby snails.

 

[Fish Kate]

"they kinda like to mate with everybody, whether or not it will actually produce baby snails"


...sounds like my first husband

 

[nlmadison]

"they kinda like to mate with everybody, whether or not it will actually produce baby snails"


...sounds like my first husband

LOLOLOLOL ROFLMAO!!!!!!

N.

 

[abnscout82]

bet you wont be selling many tickets to a snail fight event...