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What is the difference between a "Gold Mystery Snail" and an Apple Snail? Or Are they the same thing?

Inky

Gold mystery snail is a common name for the apple snail, which is a common name applied to various species of frashwater snail.

The two most common apple snails are the cana snail and P. bridgessi.

P. bridgessi stays small and will not eat plants. It comes in various colors(purple, jade, white, yellow, blue)

Cana grows to be as big as a tennis ball and will eat plants. Ive only seen it in yellow.

When these snails are young the yellow specimens can be hard to tell apart. There is a way to ID them however.

Pomacea bridgesii = The shell of this apple snails species has about 5 to 6 whorls. The most obvious characteristic of the shell are the square shoulders (flat at the top of the whorls) and almost 90° sutures.

http://www.applesnail.net/

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You've lost me.... I'm not very experienced with snails, but when I got mine it was about quarter sized and is now about 3/4 of an inch and growing... he is currently living with my male betta in his 1 gal. (I do feel bad leaving him in there I know he needs his space) The snail may be moved into one of the bigger tanks, Im not sure which one yet... The betta may eventually get a bigger tank (or I will put him with my plattys, but that could be lead to a disaster) I may also get a five gal one of these days... who knows?

Anyway, what kind of snail do you think I have? I'm pretty sure he's a canna.

Inky

I cant tell unless i see it.

This is a bridgesii shell: http://www.applesnail.net/content/photographs/pomacea_bridgesi_bl1_back.jpg

This is a cana shell:
http://www.applesnail.net/content/photographs/pomacea_can_yellowshell.jpg

Notice how the cana's shell is more rounded.

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I can't tell canas from brigs and I know what to look for. Most snails sold as gold mystery are canas. Canas are rarely sold in fishstores in any other color and while brigs do come in gold I usually don't see a tank of all gold snails without someone identifying them as canas. Usually when they sell brigs they either have the brown/dark green ones with black stripes(wild colored) or a mix of various colors in the same tank.

In my area, yellow mystery snails almost always turn out to be briggs.



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If you sing to me in French.

I bought a purple brig yesterday and named her 'Slimie'.
She is cute
But Slimy

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I'm pretty sure mine is canna, because it is big big big! I found some pretty ones with flat, swirly, brown shells. What kind are those and would the breed with my canna?

Inky

Sounds like ramshorn snails, there are different varieties of them. You may even have giant ramshorns..

If they appear more round in shape like your cannas but brown and white then you have marisa snails

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Cool Beans!

Would they prduce eggs if I got a male (pretty sure he is male) gold canna and a female Flat shelled (The tank at the store was only marked 'snails')?

Inky

Most applesnail species can't crossbreed. The ones that can do it very very rarely. Chances are even if you have several different snails of 2 species that can crossbreed you will never see a hybrid.

Thats too bad

Inky

Sham,

What about regular brown ramshorns, and red ramshorns ?

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