Achatina achatina
The temperature reading: 27-30C
Humidity: 70-80%
Columella Color: Raspberry
Adult sizes: 18 cm
Features: Features - unusual tail soles, which does not vstretish none of the species Achatina.
Achatina Achatina - the largest land snail species. Large size among land snails reach only Arhahatiny. This type is characterized by an unusual tail is not peculiar to no single species Achatina - it is the same as the arhahatin.
Conditions of identical conditions of detention arhahatin.
Achatina achatina grow more slowly than Achatina, reach sexual maturity at the age of 2-3 years. Achatina achatina make laying up to 300 eggs, the size of 5-7 mm. Resemblance to the Achatina - skin texture and shape of the shell.
Coloration depending on the subspecies and geographic place of birth. Color range from light yellow to orange, stripes on the shell can be as smooth and polygonal functions, thick or thin, blurry, black or brown.
Georgaficheskoe Distribution: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte - d'Ivoire, Togo, Dahomey, Ghana, Nigeria. The largest of the captured individuals reached 39.3 cm from head to tail. Shell length was 27.3 cm, and weighed exactly 900 grams of a snail.
There is also a subspecies of the tiger with a yellow shell without any bands - Achatina achatina var. depravata. Color of the soles of individuals caught in the wilderness - the coal-black, in the home leg is lighter, while the kids were grown from eggs - to the rich black leg is not dark.
Achatina achatina rare species, because captive breeding reluctantly, and in the tropics due to deforestation and collecting snails for eating their number is greatly reduced.
Achatina Achatina live to 10 years in nature, in captivity, 5 - 7 years.
Varieties
Achatina achatina roseolabiata depravata
The size of adult shells 150 - 200 mm in length and 100 mm in width. Axis (columella) and the parietal wall of red. Sink with dark reddish-brown zigzag stripes. External bluish-white lip. Outer lip with a broad red inner edge.
Uniformly reddish-yellow, without darker stripes. Outer lip, bluish-white.
Achatina achatina elegans monochromatica togënsis bayoli
Much smaller and relatively narrower in adult, 150 mm or less in length and 85 mm or less in width.
Shell markings and color axis (Columella), parietal wall and outer lips are like the typical form. Shell form, the spire is much narrower than the base.
Boldly marked with reddish-brown zigzag stripes. Axis (Columella), parietal wall and the blue-white outer lip.
Boldly marked with a rather narrow, widely spaced, straight, vertical dark brown stripes, which are sometimes incomplete in spots.
Hatching eggs
Depends on the temperature, takes approximately 10 - 31 days to develop and hatch.
Achatina achatina tigers
Tigers exclusively vegetarian, their digestive tract is capable of rasschipleniyu substances of plant origin, and often even coprophagous.
Achatina achatina "White Jade"
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