My new babies

[rain-]

Hi all. I haven't been hanging around here lately. Dunno why, just needed a time off from many things. I haven't bred my bettas either. I should do it soon, but it would require so much time

I've been writing articles about snails to two magazines and I bought apple snail egg clutches. The babies are now 9 to 6 days old and growing like weed. Pretty little things. Biggest ones are about 5-6 millimetres.

I'm in love

 

[jflowers]

Oh so cool pics, what are they? scientific name? I love snails if you didn't know already!

Jon

 

[rain-]

They are Pomacea bridgesii. There's several dfferent color types in my babies, blue, ivory, golden, purple and wild.

And if you're not familiar with the color types, here you can find more information:
Donya Quick's Apple Snail Research - Colors in Pomacea bridgesii

I keep the tank next to my bed and my laptop so I can stare at the babies all the time

 

[jflowers]

Mine are Pomacea bridgesii but never seen that blue variety, very nice. The link you gave was cool, though can't get the blue variety round here (phoned my local suppliers) any chance of posting some to me? A damp bag with some soaked newspaper should do it. PM me if this is possible.

Thanks

Jon

 

[rain-]

PM:d you with a bad typo =)

I hate the winter. I received some dead blue and ivory apple snail babies/clutches last week. Poor things froze to death They traveled from central Europe to Finland and didn't arrive before the weekend...

I am waiting for spring to get more snails and to send some of these to new homes.

 

[Jen]

That blue is stunning. Wish I could find some like that over here.

 

[toggle]

blue ones are awsome, I WANT SOME!!!

 

[rain-]

They are like small blueberries with cute tentacles and endless tummies

 

[sylvia]

What a lovely color those blues have! I haven't seen any of those round here lately... If I do, I'm getting all of them

 

[fufanu360]

what happens when those snails have babies and again and again? you will have 100000000 nice little baby snails lol, need to get a snail casteration center

 

[Earthgirl]

Oh wow, I love the blue!

So witttle, what cuties!
I love snail ( although I only have 3)

 

[rain-]

There's about 150 of them now =) But I am selling most of them when they are old enough. There's already a waiting list for them

Apple snails really do reproduce efficiently, one egg clutch can contain hundreds of eggs
But the babies are sooo cute, who wouldn't want babies. Then you just have to get more tanks

 

[toggle]

if your selling some i would be happy to buy some blue unless i can find some in the lfs cheaper because i guess P=P to the uk is expensive

 

[rain-]

For toggle and others:

Reputable snail dealers, there's some from UK and US =)

 

[rain-]

Weird, I thought I already wrote this, but well, maybe I didn't press the add reply buttom or something. I am getting demented

It looks like these two are talking to each other.

"Sweet!"
"Dude!"