I have been searching for some very large snails with no luck. I know mystery snails get golf ball sized but I have seen pics of water snails as big as the palm of your hand. a good 4 or 5 inches. They are going in a 180 gal tank with larger peacefull fish, if I ever find any for sale. Any suggestions? Aquabid and ebay dont have any, and local shops dont even know what to say. Ive been told that REAL apple snails will get this big, but that most of the "apple" snails are just mystery snails and will never reach that size. Is any of this true?
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Apple snails will definitely get that large. My girl friend has two apple snails and a mystery snail in her angel tank and the largest apple snail is easily 5" circumference and the second apple snail is not far behind and the mystery snail is growing fast too. She picked them all up at the lfs Petland.
Yep, one of mine very close to softball size, which is how big Apple Snail's get. My other one is baseball size.
Here is a size reference for you:
(not super good, but you get the idea)
Here is a size reference for you:
(not super good, but you get the idea)
@ Jon and sheheartsfish, do your apple snails have the closing door at the opening of the shell like the mystery snails do? I am trying to figure out how to tell the difference between the two when they are younger so I am not being sold just a regular mystery snail, since most of the pets stores say "they are the same thing". Are there any other noticeable differences between the two?
Here is a better picture for reference, the Angel is 4 to 4 1/2".
The apple snails he is talking about are mine btw. haha. I'm his gf.
My two actually are mating all the time. No eggs yet though.
I don't think there is any differences between the two, Mystery & Apple, besides the shell.
This has a diagram - http://www.applesnail.net/content/species_genera.htm
To put it simply, the Mystery snail's shell, the spiral seems to be more at the back/top of the shell,
whereas the Apple snail's shell, the spiral seems to be more at the side of the shell.
Mystery snails come in more colors too, brown/tan/gold/magenta/blue/ivory.
Apple snails mostly come in gold, but can also be brown/tan.
Also, I don't know if you know this or not, but they love bubbles. I have bubbles up against the side of my aquarium glass,
and they love to go through it, and will even float up it and float around the tank. Pretty cool to watch.
And you do have to feed them veggies... zucchini, and romaine lettuce for example.
The apple snails he is talking about are mine btw. haha. I'm his gf.
My two actually are mating all the time. No eggs yet though.
I don't think there is any differences between the two, Mystery & Apple, besides the shell.
This has a diagram - http://www.applesnail.net/content/species_genera.htm
To put it simply, the Mystery snail's shell, the spiral seems to be more at the back/top of the shell,
whereas the Apple snail's shell, the spiral seems to be more at the side of the shell.
Mystery snails come in more colors too, brown/tan/gold/magenta/blue/ivory.
Apple snails mostly come in gold, but can also be brown/tan.
Also, I don't know if you know this or not, but they love bubbles. I have bubbles up against the side of my aquarium glass,
and they love to go through it, and will even float up it and float around the tank. Pretty cool to watch.
And you do have to feed them veggies... zucchini, and romaine lettuce for example.
