is this MTS? then why mine in the tank is different color and this one is beautiful

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Although most of mine look like this.
Some vaiants have been quite ornate.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/1f4...d32989361.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds,
For a while I kept them in separate snail grow out tanks, with algae covered rock work, because I was keeping a number of Malagasy snail eating cichlids.
These cichlids had unique jaws, made to cope with the touch snail armaments.
 
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duanes said:
Although most of mine look like this.
Some vaiants have been quite ornate.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/1f4...d32989361.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds,
For a while I kept them in separate snail grow out tanks, with algae covered rock work, because I was keeping a number of Malagasy snail eating cichlids.
These cichlids had unique jaws, made to cope with the touch snail armaments.
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Duanes, my tank Mts looks the same as the first image you shared. And they never get colorful
 
phreeflow said:
Sounds like you’re the one responsible for the “just drop” strain that plagued me in the past. I’d flip on the lights and see hundreds of them on the wall. As soon as the net touched water so I could catch them, they all dropped out of reach lol.

Fascinating that you’re fascinated with them and have worked with them for 20 years. Would you happen to know how to get rid of the MTS that stay tiny and breed like crazy? They breed way faster then a the ones that grow to an inch
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You just pull babies and make them disappear a LOT. Just grab anything under 3/4", try to focus on stumpy shells and low coloration.

It's half "you aren't growing fast enough" and half "keeping the adult breeding stock and giving them access to more food with the small ones gone."

You want the big to outcompete the small and the small breed a lot faster than the big.
 
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duanes said:
Although most of mine look like this.
Some vaiants have been quite ornate.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/1f4...d32989361.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds,
For a while I kept them in separate snail grow out tanks, with algae covered rock work, because I was keeping a number of Malagasy snail eating cichlids.
These cichlids had unique jaws, made to cope with the touch snail armaments.
Click to expand...

There's just so much variation and most of it comes up randomly and it's super hard to breed for any of it thanks to the parthenogenesis and ability to breed in mass numbers.

Thanks for the great post!
 
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This thread has got me wondering if I can find some WC MTS and what that would do to my credit card bill. I've only ever had CB genetics mixed in from inbred populations. I've done it like 7-8? times so there should still be some decent genetic diversity, but....

this is MFK lol

MTS count as monsters in my book. Breed fast, eat everything, can dominate a tank.

i'm real curious what the OG wild genetic line looks like
 
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