A mature size of 6 inches/15 centimeters is how big a freshwater snail can grow. This isn't a typical size. Instead, it's the adult size of the apple snail [Pomaceamaculata]. The apple snail is considered the largest of the freshwater snails.
A mature size of 6 inches/15 centimeters is how big a freshwater snail can grow. This isn't a typical size. Instead, it's the adult size of the apple snail [Pomaceamaculata]. The apple snail is considered the largest of the freshwater snails.
Some snails in Houston can grow to the size of a baseball.
There are snails who live in freshwater and snails that live in saltwater. Snails grow their shells as they grow to house them and provide protection. For added protection they will sometimes bury themselves or slip into small cracks and crevices to hide.
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Sea snails Freshwater snails
The nerites are snails of the family Neritidae, which contains both freshwater and saltwater species. In particular, the snails in the tribe (a kind of subgroup) Theodoxini, such as Theoxodusand Clithon, are freshwater. The snails of all other nerites tribes are saltwater.
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Apple snails live in freshwater.
Apple snails are freshwater aquatic snails. Garden snails are land snails.Apple snails have lungs and gillsGarden snails have lungs onlyApple snails skin is thin and translucent (with slime)Garden snails skin is thick and leathery (with slime)All apple snails have two sets of antennaeGarden snails have species with one and two sets.
There are many chemicals that will kill freshwater snails but they will also kill fish and some will kill plants too. The best way I have found to remove snails is to have a few Clown loaches (Botia macracantha) or a couple of freshwater Puffer fish to kill and eat them.
make sure you fed it what it needs and it will grow the size it was meant to be
Freshwater crayfish and snails.