zebra snails

[rodney10954]

does anyone know about them
are they asexual?

 

[stoopid]

I think all snails are asexual.

 

[RTR]

So far as I know, no snail is asexual. Asexual snails would require budding or division, which I don't believe they can do.

Many snails are functional hermaphrodites, both sexes present and functional. Some snails are either male or female just as are most higher animals. Some few (MTS are an example) are parthenogenic females.

I don't know which snail you refer to a "zebra". A Nerite? A Colombian Ramshorn?

 

[Andy16]

I think therers a SW zebra snail, but i have yet to hear of one that is FW. And i agree with RTR abut them being sexual. Snails cant split in half to reproduce. And hte cant send of buds of them selves either.

 

[Wippit Guud]

That's funny, I say zebra snails today at the LFS... there looked light brown with red stripes... definitely FW...

 

[Wippit Guud]

This isn't what I saw, but it's a zebra nerita snail...

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=1076

 

[valerie]

I have a zebra snail in my planted tank, i looked on applesnail.net and it looks exactly like Neritina natalensis. It needs a male and female to reproduce and it doesn't eat plants(or its not suuposed to) but mien has never touched my plants.

I love mine as it looks to pretty, but i'm not too sure that it actaully eats algae or not as my tank doesn't look any cleaner.

 

[Doublette90]

I picked up what was called a Zebra Snail at my LFS and it looks just like the Neritina natalensis that Valerie mentioned. Mine does a really good job of cleaning the back glass and the decorations in the tank and has never harmed any of the plants. They are really nice looking snails too.