FishProfiles.com Message Forums

has anyone got pics of green apple snails?
also 1 of a yellow wouldn't hurt (for comparison)

do you mean green shells or green bodies?

---

"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

not too sure... have you got pics of both?

Olive apple snails are when the shell is gold with a dark body inside instead of the light body of most gold apple snails.
This site has good pictures of all kinds of apple snails (and she's a wonderful person to buy from, too, if you're so inclined)
http://home.mchsi.com/~masts/snail_bucket.htm

Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean...

i'm in uk.

someone has offered me some for free

... what is the best way to pack 1-2cm ones for posting?

You pack them pretty much the same way you would fish. Styrofoam insulation, double bagged with 1/4-1/3 water and the rest filled with pure oxygen if you can mange it. Don't feed the snails the day before packing so there is less chance of hevily soiled water. If it looks like it's going to be cold weather during the trip, a heat pack might be a good idea.

I've found the snails usually ship fairly well, but getting them acclimated is a slow process requiring patience. Definitely take over an hour to acclimate the new snails slowly, and ask the person you're getting them from what their water parameters are and try to match them as best you can. A few drops of marine iodine (for reef tanks) will help them stay healthy, and if you have water below Ph 8, buffer your water a bit and/or add a liquid calcium supplement (also for reef tanks, but with both of these supplements use only 1/4 to 1/2 the dose recommended on the bottle).

Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean...

pH is just under 8 in my tank, very hard water with a lot of calcium.

the weather is fine at about 18C.

is it best for the container to be flat or tall?

Flat is actually better because you can get more surface area, and therefore more oxygenation into the water. Just covering the snails is plenty of water. Just make sure to use newspaper or bubble wrap for padding so that the bag doesn't move around a lot while the box is being handled.

Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean...

they arrived yesterday!

here are the goldens:


pics of the jade ones are on the way!!![/font]

oops...that didn't work

[/font]

and another try...

[imghttp://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6847/goldsnail110av.jpg/img]

i'm giving up:

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6847/goldsnail110av.jpg

Only the Premium members are able to directly attach images to a post. You are still able to link to pictures, however. Just use the [ link ] [ /link ] tags, they work the same way as the [ img ] tags do.

[link=http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6847/goldsnail110av.jpg]http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6847/goldsnail110av.jpg" style="COLOR: #808080[/link]

---

And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

Hard to tell in the pic but looks more like genetically an ivory than a golden. The shells of ivories usually turn slightly yellow from pulling minerals and such out of the water. I only know of a handful of people that can raise pure white ivories. Here's a pic of a striped olive
[link=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/fish/snails/P1010066.jpg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/fish/snails/P1010066.jpg" style="COLOR: #C000C0[/link]

There's several pics of my ivories and olives here
[link=http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/fish/snails/]http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/fish/snails/" style="COLOR: #C000C0[/link]

I've also gotten a few jades and 2 golds from these guys but they are still tiny and I don't have pics.

The site on the latest in applesnail color genetics is this one [link=http://free.hostultra.com/~applesnails/colors.htm]http://free.hostultra.com/~applesnails/colors.htm" style="COLOR: #C000C0[/link]

If I edit my posts with links the links all turn to nearly the same shade of blue as my background and can hardly be found.

the colour didn't turn out properly, but they realy are a proper deep golden yellow

shame about the premium members only thing (sigh)