do mystery snails need male and female to breed?

Question

i want to get gold mystery snails at petsmart or some that kind, http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3954040&f=PAD%2FpsNotAvailInCA%2FNo

Just copy that into ur top bar. and i want to know if m snails need both male and female to breed, if so how do u tell the difference and how often do they lay eggs? any other info or m snails will be great.

Answer 1

Yes mystery snails come in male and female, but not all kinds of snails do. Some have all the parts of both sexes. When those snails meet and connect, both go away "pregnant" with each snail as the father of their offspring. A few of those hermaphroditic species, if kept isolated, will eventually self fertilize and be both mother and father to their offspring. Some snails lay eggs under water some lay eggs on cattail stems or other surfaces a few inches above the water. Some snails give live birth to fully formed babies.



Both sexes of mystery snail have a snorkel, a long flexible nose like an elephant's trunk so they can stretch up and breath air into their lungs. People sometimes see the snorkel and think all their mystery snails are male.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227n54l9YbQ



You need a male and a female mystery snail to get eggs



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227n54l9YbQ



They don't have to be the same color, but if you mix colors they revert to closer to a wild type color.



Most different species of snails will not cross and form hybrids but at least one species pair will. Spixi snails and Columbian daynight snails will produce a hybrid that is super voracious. It will strip any tank of all its vegetation and they are extremely dangerous to the environment if they escape from aquarium confines.

Answer 2

yes, unlike most snails mystery snails have sexes and need a male and female to have fertile eggs. This site has some good pictures and explanations about sexing mystery snails http://snailhobbyist.blogspot.com/p/d.html



Females can lay unfertilized eggs, my girl used to do that on occasion. It seems to me I'd normally find eggs about once a month.



Mystery snails lay their eggs above the water line, so if you don't want babies the easiest way to prevent breeding is to make sure there's not much space between the waterline and the tank hood (you need some since they are air breathers.) Eggs can be destroyed by submerging them.

Answer 3

Hello :)



I agree with Dan M.



I laughed at the end of the video. Hahahaha! That's gross! Hahahaha.