I have one gold and one black mystery snail. the gold has become almost 3 times the size of the black due to his undying hunger. He eats prettymuch anything he can get into his mouth and chew. Anyway, on occasion, the black snail will climb atop the yellow snail and he will be near the edge of the shell but I can't ever tell if he's biting the golden or if he's just hitching a ride. Obviously the golden snail doesn't like this because he will get into position and rock himself back and forth slamming the black snail against the glass or rock trying to dislodge him. Is this normal? I'm not to worried about it because they've done this off and on for a year now and no damage has ever been done but it is very comical. Just wondering what the deal was. Kyle
snail fight?
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Just being a lazy bum and hitching a ride - or eating the algae of the other snail's back. Mine do that all the time. It *is* comical. It's funny when a bunch of little snails are on my mystery snail's back...and then the little snails try to climb inside the big snail. He doesn't like that and almost squishes 'em to death before they get the hint that he doesn't want them in there lol.
I have a picture somewhere, though I cannot find it, of my mystery snail, with a snail on his back, with a snail on his back, with a snail on his back
I have a picture somewhere, though I cannot find it, of my mystery snail, with a snail on his back, with a snail on his back, with a snail on his back
That was my first instinct too. Ever heard the phrase..."If the shell is a rockin' don't bother knockin'"?
that did cross my mind RTR but like I said, I can't tell if the snails bodies are actually touching or if he's just on the shell. Kyle
Um, like, wow...
Some snails are hermaphroditic and can self-fertilize, so do not have to have sex to reproduce. Apple snails, however, come in male and female, and do indeed copulate to fertilize.
Must say, RTR, it's a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that--I'd be cleaning Mountain Dew of my screen otherwise. :laugh:
Some snails are hermaphroditic and can self-fertilize, so do not have to have sex to reproduce. Apple snails, however, come in male and female, and do indeed copulate to fertilize.
Must say, RTR, it's a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that--I'd be cleaning Mountain Dew of my screen otherwise. :laugh:
Common pond and common ramshorns are hermaphroditic, correct, but it still takes two to tango. MTS are parthenogenic females, so do not need assistance. Apples snails are one sex or the other, so require one of each flavor.
Other than MTS, snails do mate.
Other than MTS, snails do mate.
