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05-19-2005, 03:51 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Vacaville, CA
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|  Go figure I get a boy and a girl. I ordered a blue apple snail online and the seller sent me 2 just in case one didn't make it. Well they are both fine and BREEDING!!!! I am sick of hunting for their eggs. It is so nasty to have to scrape them off the lid all the time. I want to get rid of them. No sure that my LFS will take a donation of an apple snail.
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05-19-2005, 05:31 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Portland
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| I'm not sure, but I think snails can reproduce even without the opposite sex around. Makes those little buggers even more prolific than they already are. The extent of my experience with snails is collecting them from one tank to feed to loaches in the other tank. Occasionally I squish one against the glass as a treat for the fish that typically wouldn't try to eat one. Never actually tried to keep snails alive before.
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05-19-2005, 06:28 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Vacaville, CA
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| This is true but apple snails need one of each sex, the female can still produce eggs with out a male but they till not be fertilized.
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05-19-2005, 11:56 PM
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| Forum Manager  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado
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| I feel your pain jadenblack...I had that surprise awhile ago when I moved LAST time. I consolidated all of my fish and critters into the same buckets for travelling and then my two apple snails were together for a couple weeks tops...then I seperated them and next thing I know I have hundreds of little baby apple snails. It was kinda interesting to do once...but man did they make a mess. I ended up keeping one for each tank and throwing the rest to my parents ponds, one to my roommate, a couple to a guy at work and some to a friend of my roommate's... I'm sure your lfs would take one snail if you just want to give them one, couldn't hurt asking...or set up a cute new little tank for the snail...their personalities are crazy fun 
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