Bright Yellow Skinned Sulawesi Snails

[MJY6087]

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very nice!

[armthehomeless]

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The snails and shrimp look nice. Glad they weren't all DOA.

[rrocket2002]

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They were not cooperating when I wanted to take pics.  Spot gave me a pointer on taking pics of them, but I still need to work on it.

[Nickintex]

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If you get these snails to multiply, will you be sharing with fellow GHAC members? hmmm? :wink:
No, they would not be puffer or hummingbird tetra food! 8O

[rrocket2002]

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Once the start doing their thing, I will offer up some for a price.  These guys only have one baby at a time the way I understand it.  The don't lay a whole bunch of eggs like others do.

[mahoro]

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Don't think I did....

i ment nacra99

[Mzungu]

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I read up a bit on them...if they are Tylomelania towutica, like the website says, I think they have one baby at a time, but are pretty much always carrying one on the way. I'm a bit confused, though. The few papers that I did read over cite the differences between the over 30 species found in the Malili lakes as being mainly in the shells, and not the skin. I didn't see anything about some of the crazy colors, like the yellow ones. Unless of course there's some scientific terminology that means "yellow" that I didn't understand.    

Nevertheless, they're very cool looking!

[Mzungu]

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Well, did a bit more reading last night. Apparently the couple of papers I've been over have not yet tried to describe individual species characteristics, only species types. As a whole, Tylomelania have a great variety of appearances. I did see a mention in the paper I was reading last night of a few types of morphologies with white or yellow dots on their "skin," and even that some are yellow.

Also read that these guys are livebearing, well, in a sense (technically, they're ovoviviparous - learned a new word, lol). Depending on the species, they can carry quite a group of babies growing in them. They are nourished within the mother, and are "born" in an almost assembly line fashion. Pretty cool!

Here's the paper, if anyone's interested:

http://download.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/thomas.rintelen/rintelen%20&%20glaubrecht%202005.pdf

[rrocket2002]

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Thanks MB.  

I was looking last night, it seems I have a baby one.  I suspect it came with the adults.

[Mzungu]

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Awesome! Where are the pictures of the baby??

[rrocket2002]

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Shoot, I have no time to take pics now.  It will have to wait till tonight after work....for which I'm logging off so I can drag my butt there.