Good fish roommates for snails include, but are not limited to, danios, guppies, White Cloud Mountain minnows, neon tetras, and cory catfish. Apple snails and assassin snails will also prey upon ramshorn snails. More voracious eaters include puffers, loaches (such as the clown loach or any other member of the genus Botia), crayfish, and most gouramis- though many other fish will also consume snail meat. Some aquarium species will eat ramshorn snails.
Some varieties do particularly enjoy eating the leaves of stem plants such as cabomba and anacharis. Ramshorn snails generally will eat only the most delicate plants, preferring algae, uneaten fish food, and dead fish. The globules are translucent, so it is possible to visually see the new snails develop in size. The globules contain about a dozen or so eggs, though it can vary. Ramshorn snails lay eggs in globules, which tend to be brownish in color. Ramshorn snails are hermaphroditic two organisms of any sex have the ability to breed and produce offspring. Ramshorn snails have a lifespan on one year. Like all air-breathing water snails, the animal has no operculum, and has only one pair of tentacles with the eye spots at the base of the tentacles.
#Ramshorn snail skin
Large folds of skin may protrude out of the more open left side. Snails of this family are spiralled sinistrally, with the opening hole slanted downward toward the right. These traits are recessive and if crossbred the resultant offspring are likely to be wild type (brown). Rare varieties have been selectively bred in pale pink and blue. An absence of melanin reveals the red colour. The red colouration is the colour of their blood (containing hemoglobin), unlike other snails with green blood (due to hemocyanin). There are two common skin colourations: black and red. The dark color appears to originate from dietary materials not generally available in the home aquarium, although many varieties from ponds are this dark shade.
The shells range from translucent through various shades of brown to a dark, nearly black color. Although most of them are extremely small, some may reach a size of two and a half centimeters (one inch). Their blood contains red hemoglobin, unlike other snails' blood, which contains greenish hemocyanin. There are two different coloured skin forms: black and red the latter lack the dark skin pigment melanin and consequently have a bright reddish skin, which is the colour of their blood. Most of these snails are of the family Planorbidae, and they include the species Planorbarius corneus.
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