>Snails are not much higher on the list - all I know is that the Mystery
>Snail (Ampullaria cuprina, I think), is the 0nly one that is NOT a plant
>eater
The species in the aquarium trade in Australia and generally known as
Mystery Snails is believed to be Pomacea bridgesi. They will survive for a
short time out of water but will eventually dry up and die. I'm not quiet
sure for how long but guess it would depend on the amount of moisture the
snail was able to store in its body and prevailing temperatures.
I remember some years ago I had a visitor to my fishroom and he was one of
those Government scientific types. He almost had a fit as he thought that
they were a variety of those Giant African snails that terrorise farmers in
some countries overseas. The quarantine department also found some of the
Giant African snails at one of the container depot here in Brisbane a couple
of years back. They had arrived unexpectedly in a shipping container. AQIS
went into panic mode and sprayed the whole complex after a physical search
and destroy shortee ;-)
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
"Home of the Rainbowfish"
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
http://www.angfa.org/rainbowfish/home.htm
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