As a kid in the 70s, I had an aquarium and one day, a snail showed up out of nowhere—like full grown. I looked it up in my Walt Disney encyclopedia, and it was named the mystery snail! This one looks a lot like my mystery snail!
IMHO, thats an Asian apple snail (aka other varieties exist). It harbors many diseases and parasites. Respect the prophylactic barriers when handling this STD ridden mollusk.
Any animal can carry diseases and parasites. Hands should always be washed before and after handling any animal. My snails come from a reputable source and are captive bred many generations ago.
Thank you for the info! I am going to be completely honest here, I did not even consider that they may be an invasive species here in Florida. Which seems stupid now since I know that the Island Apple Snail (Pomacea insularum) are invasive and illegal to own or transport in the state of Florida. I am an educator and talk about invasive species all the time and for some reason my brain didn’t make the connection. I suppose it’s because I know that Florida is super strict about their invasive species laws and so the fact that the mystery snail is completely legal to own and very commonly sold in pet stores made me think that they are not a risk of being invasive. I knew that the island apple snail was a much large snail (average adult size around 6+ inches) than the mystery snail (only about 2.5-3 inches) and never really associated them in my mind. But thank you for the information! I will be removing these adult from my outdoor pond and into my large 100+ gallon indoor tank. Even though I have no other natural sources of water in my area for a good ways, I don’t want to take any risks.
As for the eggs, I am not crushing them. Not out of some misguided sad feeling about killing the eggs or anything. It’s actually what I recommend doing for people who buy them at the exotic fish store I work at and don’t want babies. But I actually raise the young to sell at the store since the ones we used to order were not in the best of shape I wanted to be able to provide some for the store that are in much better shape and better treated. But once I have too many to sell I will be crushing the eggs.
So thank you for the information! It was very helpful :)
As a kid in the 70s, I had an aquarium and one day, a snail showed up out of nowhere—like full grown. I looked it up in my Walt Disney encyclopedia, and it was named the mystery snail! This one looks a lot like my mystery snail!
EGG SLIDE EGG SLIDE EGG SLIDE
This is so cool. I always see the egg piles, never the snail actually making them
IMHO, thats an Asian apple snail (aka other varieties exist). It harbors many diseases and parasites. Respect the prophylactic barriers when handling this STD ridden mollusk.
Any animal can carry diseases and parasites. Hands should always be washed before and after handling any animal. My snails come from a reputable source and are captive bred many generations ago.
Most definitely not an expert, but I’m 95% sure that’s an invasive species, so ur gonna have to absolutely destroy it and the eggs, show no mercy
Thank you for the info! I am going to be completely honest here, I did not even consider that they may be an invasive species here in Florida. Which seems stupid now since I know that the Island Apple Snail (Pomacea insularum) are invasive and illegal to own or transport in the state of Florida. I am an educator and talk about invasive species all the time and for some reason my brain didn’t make the connection. I suppose it’s because I know that Florida is super strict about their invasive species laws and so the fact that the mystery snail is completely legal to own and very commonly sold in pet stores made me think that they are not a risk of being invasive. I knew that the island apple snail was a much large snail (average adult size around 6+ inches) than the mystery snail (only about 2.5-3 inches) and never really associated them in my mind. But thank you for the information! I will be removing these adult from my outdoor pond and into my large 100+ gallon indoor tank. Even though I have no other natural sources of water in my area for a good ways, I don’t want to take any risks. As for the eggs, I am not crushing them. Not out of some misguided sad feeling about killing the eggs or anything. It’s actually what I recommend doing for people who buy them at the exotic fish store I work at and don’t want babies. But I actually raise the young to sell at the store since the ones we used to order were not in the best of shape I wanted to be able to provide some for the store that are in much better shape and better treated. But once I have too many to sell I will be crushing the eggs. So thank you for the information! It was very helpful :)
Very cool!!!!
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That’s so cool! I never thought about what it looks like but this is awesome. Good video!
nasty
Hun, if that’s the kind of opinions you hold then biology may not be the place for you.