Amphidromus
Habitat: Eastern India, Northern Australia, South-West Asia
The temperature reading: 27-28C
Humidity: 70-90%
The uniqueness of the shell:
-5-7 Turns
-Contrast color appears
Adult sizes: up to 7 cm
Age of puberty: about half
Number of eggs: 300
Size of eggs: 1 mm.
Type Amphidromus very unique and interesting. Since Amphidromus tree snail, it eats lichens and other fungi. In Russia, an attempt institution Amphidromus usually ends in failure, as well as in Ukraine. The reason is not known.
Diet:
We must be constantly Amphidromus different food, strange, but this is so they have somewhere, like "laid" information about food, and must be fed by the scheme: "Today has given one, and another tomorrow."
Reproduction in Amphidromus very unique, Amphidromus build their nests are usually made of coconut fiber, they find, if not, they make a nest of fiber mango. Been documented cases of snail eggs deferred 234 1 time and about 32 eggs a second time, the estimated amount of eggs a few times the size of the snails, and the reason for this is firmness and elasticity of eggs Amphidromus.
Shell:
They have a right and left torsion of the shell. It is very important to their reproduction.
If the snail Amphidromus with right torsion, it is often crossed with another snail shell torsion.
On their body bands appear, which, as it were embedded in the shell, over time they become overgrown, and these bands are traces of dormant snails.
Genes snails also affect the shell than in Achatina. In Achatina when you cross an albino and black-will with the albino gene, while Amphidromus all in shell, with up to 5 months shell has a color shells (snails, parous), and the remaining life of the snail is the color of the other snails involved in the crossing.
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