Achatina Achatina large oblovka

It is one of the largest land snails on earth. It comes from the green African continent, more precisely from the west coast of Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and others. In his homeland is becoming an endangered species, native population because it collects and sells to markets, poor serves as a source of livelihood for their very tasty meat and finally is collected for the manufacture and sale of souvenirs. We have recently this has become a popular pet, but also kind of hard to sehnatelnym breeders. Takes care of her every day, just 10 minutes, the smell is suitable for people with allergies and eat mostly fruits and vegetables.

Appearance

Shell of this snail is stockier than the other species of the genus Achatina. Can grow to respectable size (15-20 cm), but in some cases it can also measure about 30 cm. This is true for all subspecies. An adult is characterized by 7 to 8 threads on shell. The basic color is dark yellow boxes, rather yellow-orange (for subspecies Achatina monochromata) or orange with dark stripes that resemble a tiger coat color pattern - hence the name, snail tiger (tiger worm). Apex - the end of the shell is slightly reddish and some species of bright red. Collumela - obusti is pink and the cut end, as is the case with other species of this genus - eg Achatina fulica.
The muscular foot is not like other types of smoothbut it is tougher with a typical latticed. Is mostly beige or gray, may be albino, but this unique coloring is very rare and less frequent. A characteristic feature is prominent" V, which is located at the end of muscular legs, is unique for this species and other representatives of the genus Achatina does not occur.

Reproduction

Oblovka large sexually mature at about the age of 2 years of life. It is a hermaphrodite (obojetnik) with direct development. The transfer of sperm is vychlipitelny mating organ (penis), which is always located on the right foot for the antennae. The body is formed already at povyrostlych individuals and seeing him as a bright speck. The connection takes on the order of several minutes to hours,can be unilateral (only one sperm passes oblovka second) and duplex (where the sperm oblovky pass each other). Sperm then stored in a stock pouch, where the time is to fertilize the eggs stored sperm from another individual. Achatina Achatina puts about 30 to 300 wide oval and yellowish eggs. Fertilized eggs are about 8-9 mm long and 6-7 mm wide, coated with excrement skorapecne glands. Achatina is put into about 4 cm deep hole created by the feet in the substrate. After laying eggs are good eggs carefully removed and moved to another tank or terrarium, where we maintain the same temperature and humidity as it was in the original container. Because they have direct development, hatching from them after 2 to 3 weeks oblovky small (about the size of 4-5 mm),that are visually similar to adults and will now receive the same food as adults. About these pups is necessary care, as in clover, because, despite excellent care in this species is unfortunately a large percentage of deaths.

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