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H2O
What do they eat?
When to feed them?
Disease?and treatment?
How long do they live?
Can they breath underwater or just outside?
If they can breath underwater how long do they stay underwater or they cant at all?
How do you know that they are dead?
H2O
and HOw can you tell there diferences between boy or girl?

Thanks All!!
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fishies12
They can eat fish food lettece carrots peas pretty much any fresh veggie

on how much to feed them it is sort of trail and error see how much they eat and feed them that amount daily

i don't no of any snail dieases

How much they live is based on your tank temp the higher your tank temp the higher the metabolism so their life cycle will speed up and they won't live as long like in 25C they will only live 1-1 1/2 years but in colder temps they can live 3 years

Apple snails have like a breathing tube called siphon that they extend out of the water to breath

You will no when u have a dead snail because an empty shell will be floating when they die they come out of their shells. If you see your snail floating don't panic that is normal they can even float for days as long as the floating shell isn't empty it isn't dead.

The easest way to tell the sex is to take them out of the water and turn them on their backs and when the snail comes out you have to look inside the right mantle cavity for the penis heath

for more info go to applesnail.net
martinez14pr
if there is no penis, what does a girl look like? just nothing, or an indent, etc?
Black oranda
Thud.gif im not sure don't they change sexes?
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