OH CRAP! look what I found today

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dodgefreak8

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I guess I didn't see the egg cluster damnit :swear: . I guess i can trade them for feeders. Or now I have a good reason to buy a clown loach :shakehead
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I already have 4 adults and o could visibly count 11 babies in a 220g tank so your guess is as good as mine as to how many of them there are. I couldn't possibaly house all the babies they are going to have. you right though they are pretty cool for a snail
 
I fried mine with a magnifying glass. Its cool, they retract into their shells, so you just heat the topside of their sheill up and the air inside their shell will heat up and you'll hear all sorts of popping noises going on in there.
 
nice pic
 
I think thats about one of the best pics I have taken with my camera, its easy when its so slow though. thanks
 
escargo ( hope i spelled it right) :idea:
 
piranha45 said:
I fried mine with a magnifying glass. Its cool, they retract into their shells, so you just heat the topside of their sheill up and the air inside their shell will heat up and you'll hear all sorts of popping noises going on in there.

You have serious problems....lol
 
Fortunately, apple snails reproduce rather slowly. Some months ago I had a population explosion of some type of small snail (bladder snails?) that came in some plants I had bought. I could easily remove 30-50 of those buggers once a week. Clown loaches got rid of them, but it took about 3 months for the last snail to disappear without progeny. Now I have 4 large apple snails. I do like those ones. It is neat to see them parsimoniously checking on the vital signs of my bristlenose plecos. ("You never know, this might be food," says the snail long after the pleco has darted away.)

Masa
 
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