Pomacea Bridgesii questions

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RhondaAnn

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Five days ago I allowed my 1st viable partial clutch to hatch. I have 13 adults of assorted colors. I have a couple questions that I haven't found answers to.
1). How long does it take before you can tell what color/s they are going to be?
2). Could they have multiple fathers, or just one per clutch?

A picture of them at 5 days old:
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1. It may take a few weeks before you can figure out the actual colors.

2. These snails can deposit sperm and deliver clutches of eggs for a few months prior to being copulated by a male. The resulting colors depend on the genetics of the snail who laid the eggs. Generations of other colors get mixed up in that clutch.
 
what he forgot was...

daw! cute babys!
 
congratulations rhonda!!!!!!!!!!! :D they are really cute!
 
from my many clutches that have hatched i notice that all the babies are kinda a tan colour until they get about twice the hatching size, then the pigmentation starts showing. one thing i've noticed is babies that turn out to be darker, such as blues or jades, have dark spots all over the shell when they first hatch.

i have blues, jades, and an ivory turning magenta as parents of my current babies and i ended up with babies that are blues, jades, ivories, goldens, and one so far that seems to be almost a platinum colour. lil baby platinum is a keeper! lol. the grandparents of the blue and jade parents of these babies were female ivory, female and male golden, and a male that had a green shell with blue undertones.
 
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