The Incredable Color Changing Brig Snail

snoopy65

snoopy65

I am Sam aka Snoopy65
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This snail was born in my 110 gal tank. It has lived it's whole life there. There is nothing in it's life to have caused it to decide it didn't like the color it was. I haven't changed the food they eat, the temp, tank mates, nothing. I guess it just decided it wanted a different color. Where the color changes I thought maybe there was damage or something so I took it out and felt the shell. It is smooth as the rest of the shell, just as shiny. It is just an abrupt color change of the shell, not even a growth line and then change.

Just something unusual that I thought I would share.

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Woah! That's wierd!!!
 
Maybe he hit retirement age in snail years?

or
comparable to gray hair. hair loss? lol

IDK, but yea. Kinda weird.

I guess if its a she. Comparable to bleach blonde. : P
 
Michael Jackson will be making an offer for that snail as soon as he browses to this site.
 
It's almost as if some epigenetic signal has been sent to change which pigmentation gene is to be expressed.

In humans there has been some research to suggest that our environment can cause certain genes to be turned on and off- pollutants, food, etc. (and incidentally, in the face of Mendelian genetics, these epigenetic triggers can be passed on to our offspring too).

Could anything have changed- something new in the water a new food?
 
Nothing new. I am on a well so a change in water isn't it. I feed all of the same foods I always have. Same temp. Same water change schedule. Same water params. Same tank mates. Same plants.


And it is the only one to do it out of 20 or so in the tank.
 
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