Apple snail can be bought in many aquarium and pet shops. Mostly they are sold under names as 'golden snail', 'mystery snail', 'ivory snail', 'Ampullarius australis', 'Ampullarius cuprina' and 'Ampullarius gigas'. Pomacea bridgesii and Pomacea canaliculata are the most frequent apple snails in the trade, less common are Pomacea glauca and Pomacea paludosa, other apple snail genera are offered occasionally.

Most apple snail species deposit their eggs above the waterline. The eggs can be easily recognised (look at the pictures on this site) and if you remove them regularly, you won't have a problem at all. Besides this, keep in mind that apple snails are rather big and can be easily spotted (especially the lighter, yellow varieties) and removed by hand. See similar questions...

In some sources the name apple snail and mystery snail are considered to be synonyms for the snails of the family Ampullariidae. The name apple snail refers to there size, colour and form, while the name mystery snail comes from the fact that the aquarium market didn't know what kind of snail it was or where it came from, so it was a mystery (snail) for them. In other sources, the mystery snails are described as snails from the family Viviparidae. See similar questions...

My snails are inactive for most of the time. Am I doing something wrong? The temperature is OK and the fish seem to be healthy. See similar questions...

No, apple snails are not hermaphrodite like some other snail families (mainly land and freshwater species). This means you'll need a male and a female to get baby snails. A sex change from male to female has been described for some Pila and Pomacea apple snails. In case of Pila snails, the male needs a preparatory aestivation period to become a female, while the Pomacea snails can possibly change sex at all times. The frequency at which this sex change occurs is not certain. See similar questions...

This mainly depends on the species, most species are likely to consume your plants to some degree, while other species don't. Have a look at the Care to find out how to feed your apple snails. See similar questions...

There are several parasites that have snails as an intermediate host. However, apple snails are relatively resistant to many of these parasites, which are often host specific and do not regenerate in other hosts like apple snails. However, at least one parasite (Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a nematode, also know as the rat lungworm), uses the apple snail as an intermediate host. This parasite has the rat as its main host, but humans can be infected when raw snails are consumed. See similar questions...

Several snails of the genus Pomacea aestivate buried in the mud depending on the temperature and the amount of available food and water, whilst in other regions the same species are active during the whole year. So apparently it's not necessary for them to hibernate. Rather consider it as a survival strategy that's only used during difficult periods of scarcity. See similar questions...

Apple snail aren't very selective when it comes to food and some meat is always welcome to them, but healthy fish are simply to fast for an apple snail to capture and to hold. However, if a fish has died the apple snails will certainly consume the remains quickly, sometimes giving the impression that a fish has disappeared and killed by the snails. While fish are fast, other snails aren't and it has been described and observed that at least some apple snails predate on other snails. See similar questions...

Yes, apple snails can be consumed like escargots. They seem to taste somewhat similar. In fact there are restaurants that serve apple snails and they are often offered in Oriental markets. See similar questions...

However, Carlos from Spain managed to teach his snail how to drive a car. Now his snail travels at extreme speeds and is able to reach 135 km/h. Unfortunately his last attempt to establish a new record failed on the French high-way as the snail was unable to reach the toll-booth. See similar questions...

While the UI looks great, there are a couple of things that strike me as odd. Steve spent the entire time using both hands, yet virtually everybody uses their phone with one hand. How easy is it to scroll through 1000 songs etc. using 1 hand and the ‘flick’ action? I think for scrolling through long lists the clickwheel ‘rotate thumb’ action is far more efficient and easier to do with one hand. See similar questions...

You bet! Reproduction in some hermaphroditic snails begins by engaging in a preliminary love-play. A pair of snails raise the creeping sole of their feet off the ground and bring them together. At the same time they rock their bodies to and fro and actively caress one another with their greatly extended tentacles. After a short time the love-play passes into a love-duel; each snail projects its calcareous love-dart into the sole of its partner's foot (only if the snail has a dark sack). See similar questions...

The muscular strength of snails is surprisingly great. An experiment on a Helix aspersa weighing 1/4 oz showed it could drag vertically a weight of 2 1/2 oz., or ten time its own weight. Another snail weighing 1/3 oz. was able to drag in a horizontal direction along a smooth table twelve reels of cotton, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a key, and a knife, weighing in all no less than 17 oz. or more than fifty times its own weight. See similar questions...

There is the "snail's pace". A movement of a few inches per minute is common for large snails or slugs. Small relatives of the operculate genus Colobostylus can move 7 times their shell length each minute. A few larger land snails "lope" or "gallop" by creating extraordinarily large locomotor waves in the foot. The speed of the European garden snail, Helix aspersa, is dependent on the surface on which it moves. See similar questions...

We have an official Apple distributor (www.apple.ru), and plenty of dealers. The Macs do cost more than in many other countries (about 30% compared to USA prices), but they are available. See similar questions...

If success is measured by how long you've survived, snails are very successful. They've been around 500 million years. If successful is how well you've adopted to the environment, snails have adapted to all climates and altitudes. It has emerged from the water and now lives a diversified life in a new environment and is found from the tropics to the tundra and from sea level to mountain heights. [1] See similar questions...

In hibernation or aestivation operculate and pulmonate snails react similarly. The heart of the pulmonate may slow down from 36 beats per minute to only three or four. In the operculates it may drop from 53 to only two to three times per minute. As an indication of how much body processes are slowed down, a hibernating pulmonate at 30°F will use as little as 1/50th the amount of oxygen used by an active snail at 59°F. [1] See similar questions...

There are some treatments that can be added to the water but they only tend to stun the snails. Clown loach can be an effective solution to snails in a tropical aquarium, as can puffer fish but puffers could be a problem if introduced to a community tank and should only be introduced with care and fore-thought. text is editable. This is due to a silt build up at the bottom of the pond that is being stirred up by the fish or a pond pump that is placed to near the bottom of the pond. See similar questions...