Some selected photos of the ramshorn snails I breed

[PlatedLilyAquatics]

 

[BigManAquatics]

Those are pretty colors!

 

[PlatedLilyAquatics]

Those are pretty colors!

Thank you I've been breeding them for about 18 months now and make my own dry food mix out of locally foraged mushrooms and plants.

 

[qldmick]

Cool I picked up 10x red Ramshorns a few weeks ago, looking forward to them breeding up.

 

[PlatedLilyAquatics]

Cool I picked up 10x red Ramshorns a few weeks ago, looking forward to them breeding up.

From my understanding, almost all ramshorn species have red hemoglobin which gives them their red coloration. The more translucent the snail the more red color appears.

This is convenient because you can easily tell when one of the snails is sick as their red color will dull (I assume from lack of oxygenation?)