In recent years snails became popular pets. Besides the known ampulyariya living with keen aquarians now many hold huge African akhatin – huge overland snails. Certainly, men's and female individuals therefore it is important to know a sex of snails will be necessary for you for successful cultivation of pets.
Instruction
1. The majority overlandof snails – hermaphrodites. It means that they possess both male, and female reproductive organs. However impregnate itself the overland snail cannot. Pairing requires two individuals who become "face to face" to each other, so, that their sexual openings are the friend opposite to the friend then there is a transfer of genetic material. During observations it was established that old snails undertake a female role more often while young individuals – men's. Therefore if you want to receive posterity from your pets, but at you only adult snails contain, settle to them a young individual, and everything will turn out.
2. Ampulyariya are some of the few diclinous snails. Cases when snails of this look changed a floor are known. Ampulyariya the sorts Pila fall into hibernation before turning into an opposite sex, and at the sort Pomacea it can occur at any time. Certainly, the sex of a snail can be defined, having opened her, however hardly this way will suit you. But there are several simple and painless methods.
3. To understand a sex of a snail, pull out her from water, put a cover up and wait until the cover opens. Look in a sink, on the right at the top of a cloak at a male the penis cover will be visible. Certainly, an inexperienced eye can not distinguish this difference, at once however if you put a row several ampulyariya and compare the structure of their reproductive system, you will understand a difference.
4. You can also wait when your snails begin to copulate. At ampulyariya the male crawls over a female.
5. One more way to define a sex of an ampulyariya is to measure mouths of sinks of snails. At males of the mouth of sinks in a form is closer to a circle, than at females. If you are a happy owner of the aquarium occupied by ampulyariya, you can measure mouths of sinks of snails in two directions and understand which of them who.