One Jumbo mystery snail at about 4cm in diameter.
Mystery snails are a lovely gold snails. They can grow up to 4cm and these are about that size. They will eat algae, dead plant matter and leftover food your shrimp or fish missed helping keep the aquarium clean.
They are ideal for larger aquariums, if you keep them in a smaller one make sure they can get food from somewhere, just the algae in the tank isn't always enough!
No, they are native to China.
just like iPhones
Are they jumbo because there are surveillance gear hidden in the shells?
No, but they do travel at 0.8x the speed of sound during cruise.
Why called mystery
Nobody knows…
What about Nerites? Deal on them please
We don't have nerites at the moment sorry!
Following for a good snail mail joke.
Here's a male snail joke:
A man moves into a new house with his wife. He’s painting the living room when he hears a little knock on the door.
The man goes to the door and looks around, but doesn’t see anything so he closes the door, but as he’s walking away he hears the same little knock at his door.
He opens the door and looks around, and looks down, and staring up at him is a snail. This being a new home and not wanting pests, the man picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can. He wipes his hands and goes back to painting
His wife gets home later with some groceries and he finishes painting. They have a lovely dinner and retire to bedroom to watch a movie and have a glass of wine. Soon they are making a baby. They wake up the next day happy and in love.
A few weeks later the man’s wife finds out she’s pregnant. She shares the news with the man and they are overjoyed.
Time passes and her belly grows from a small bump to a much larger bump and before long she’s in labour.
The couple bring home their healthy baby girl and name her Sophie.
Sophie grows like a weed, she takes her first steps, says her first words, and becomes a rambunctious two year old.
The couple decides that Sophie should have a sibling and so they get to work and a year later Sophie has a baby brother named Benjamin.
Benjamin grows just as weed-like as Sophie. He takes his first steps, he says his first words, and when Sophie turns five, Benjamin is a few weeks from his second birthday.
Sophie starts school and Benjamin spends time in day care so that their mother can go back to work as an obstetrician. The man works less now that his wife is back to work and they have time to spend with their children.
Benjamin starts school and Sophie takes piano lessons, and plays soccer. Their parents can barely keep up to their energetic kids. But they agree it’s a blessing Sophie and Benjamin get along so well.
That changes when Sophie starts middle school and her younger brother starts to get on her nerves. But not long after Benjamin is in middle school with his sister just about to leave.
Benjamin plays in the school band and Sophie is on the drama team. Their parents couldn’t be prouder.
Sophie starts high school and introduces the family to her first boyfriend. Benjamin doesn’t like him, and is protective of his sister.
But Benjamin’s instincts are good, and Sophie suffers her first heartbreak. The man consoles his daughter and although she’s sad for awhile, she’s soon back to smiling as much as before. She graduates and goes to college.
Benjamin misses his sister, and spends his time drawing and playing music. He graduates as well and attends a prestigious art school.
As the couple drive back from dropping off their second child at his new adventure, they think back on the wonderful years they’ve spent in the house.
They get home and the woman goes up stairs to take a nap. The man goes to read a book in the living room.
Just as he sits down he hears a little knock on the door. So he goes to the door and he looks around, but sees nothing. So he closes the door but as he’s walking away he hears the same little knock at the door.
He opens the door and looks around, and looks down and he sees a snail.
The snail looks up at him and says “Hey #**###, what was that all about!?”
I feel like I should have seen that coming but I didn’t and I love it.
great effort
Here is one about a male and some snails:
A guy's wife in pregnant and getting cravings for unusual foods. One day she decides she just has to have snails and sends him to the store to get some. He goes downtown to the fancy seafood store and buys a bunch of live snails for making escargot. They put the snails in a paper bag and tell him to get home quickly as the bag may not last.
On the way home he passes the local bar and one of his friends sees him and invites him in for drink to celebrate the expected birth. One thing leads to another and the guy ends up staying until closing time and getting quite hammered.
Finally he proceeds on home. Just as he is walking up the front steps two things happen. One, the bag finally breaks and the snails all fall out on the walk and, two, his wife opens the door and starts yelling at him and demanding to know where he has been and why it has taken so long for him to get home.
The guys looks at his wife, then at the snails, then at the wife and then at the snails again.
"Come on guys" he says to the snails "We're almost there. Just a few feet more."
My French mate would like to buy a couple for a tasting!
How are these shipped??!
Parcel or express in a breather bag with water and air. Snails are much more hardy than shrimp, they don't have issues generally.
are they good to eat?
Do these breed easily? I won't mind getting one or two but I don't want an infestation of snails in my aquarium.
Not as easily as other snails no.
This looks like a Golden Apple Snail? If it is then it is a big pest and probably illegal in Australia.
It is not an Apple Snail, completely different species.
A shame that a lot of their fish live stock is often listed as sold out on the website, otherwise I would have bought.
Yes, we breed a bit so often have things in stock and out. We post on our mailing list (You can sign up at the bottom of any page) and facebook page whenever we have new stock.
Thanks. Bought 2.
Hope they arrive un-mashed. 🐌
Thank you!
Update: Both snails arrived safely yesterday morning. Perfectly packaged. Worth spending 3 dollars extra on express shipping. 👍👍👍
Great timing. I'm due for some new snails and this will save me the 120km round trip to my closest aquarium store and the inevitable extra money I would spend on other things "that I didn't know I needed" when I got there.
Hey OP, this reminds me of some of your other OzB posts in which you are selling animals that only survive at tropical temperatures, but don't mention this anywhere in your posts. Don't you think it's important to be upfront about such things, to avoid customer disappointment/animal suffering and death/ruining your own reputation, etc.? If I dude in Victoria or Tasmania ordered 20 of these and stated that they "couldn't wait to get them into the pond", what would you do? Take said dude's money, then ship the snails off to certain death?
Most people that keep fish have heaters in their aquariums. Even K-mart sells aquarium heaters
Yo flippy, that is utter BS. What prompted you to post this wildly inaccurate statement? No one that has a goldfish tank has a heater in it, because there is no need for that complication/ugliness/expense/etc. You seem to have completely missed the point, which is this:
In non-tropical regions of Australia (such as Victoria, Tasmania, Adelaide, lower NSW and WA), if you want to keep aquatic animals alive you will need a heated tank/pond. This is a self evident fact that this vendor serially ignores, while flogging tropical species by post to anyone, anywhere in Australia, without any due warning of this simple fact. There are inevitably two losers and one winner in this circumstance. The two losers are the actual animals (which die a cold and painful death), and the buyers (who lose their money, but also may blame themselves for the deaths and thus suffer from guilt/grief). The 'winner' is the shrewd vendor, who is profiting by serially shipping tropical animals off to non-tropical regions, and certain death; unless the buyer has a heater, which the seller repeatedly neglects to mention in any of their posts here on OzB. Given the bizarre response provided below by this seller, I am now of the opinion that they have somehow 'fallen' into this business, and in fact know next to nothing about aquatic animals. That is most unfortunate for the animals they are selling, and the peeps they are selling them to.
Room temperature in any part of Australia is almost always hot enough for tropical species, + all other species we sell we keep in outdoor tanks with no heating and do not get deaths from the cold (just reduced breeding). Admittedly we have not yet kept Mystery Snails in cold temperatures, so that is a good suggestion, I'll add recommended temperatures to the listing.
Counterintuitively, from my experience in pet stores, stating something "only survives in tropical temperatures" is usually followed by "buy my heater" when in reality as long as the tank is in-doors the vast majority of tropical fish do not need heating, let alone shrimp and snails, which we DO have a recommended temperature range on the listing descriptions.
Yo cowboy, re:
'… when in reality as long as the tank is in-doors [sic] the vast majority of tropical fish do not need heating'
That is the most ludicrous/laughable statement I have ever heard from any vendor of anything ever on this website, and it completely undermines your authority on anything related to aquaria. Surely you understand that the peeps here at OzB are 'compus mentus'/normal-thinking humans, and blatant rubbish like that won't fly? Or are you assuming that all Aussie households are equipped with central heating, and keep it operating in every room of the house 24 hours a day, throughout the year?
I am now firmly of the opinion that—due to either total disregard for anything beyond the dollar, or possibly just utter naivety—you are an irresponsible trader who should not retain the right to sell living animals to the public. Oddly, you do not even seem to realise the perils of going 'on the written/internet record' as stating that tropical aquatic animals '…. do not need heating'. What do you think the meaning of the word 'tropical is'? A flavour of juice?
Do you believe over 5% of Australian homes consistently stay below 15C during winter all day long? I couldn't honestly tell you for sure, and so I have added recommended temperature ranges to all listings since your first comment, but from my experience even a house without heating warms up during the day even in winter.
Never had a thermostat in a winter house with me but it didn't feel much colder than Sydney at the dead of night in winter outside, which is the temperature all our stock survives at.
Re:
'… I'll add recommended temperatures to the listing.'
Erm … when? Ten hours later and they're still not there?
Thin ice, man. If you place another offer here on OzB offering to post tropical species to anywhere in Australia without any notification that such species will only survive in water maintained at tropical temperatures, I will be forced to forward all the relevant evidence (which you have conveniently generated yourself, and posted on the internet) to the RSPCA, and Consumer Affairs.
In the wise words of Ali G's infinitely cooler DJ: FIX UP, MON.
Getting your jimmies rustled cause hes selling tropical fish. Settle down mate.
Report to RSPCA lol what a pelican
Yo Fliprz,
Frankly, I agree with you that a registered business selling non-mammalian animals (of comparatively low intelligence) is a relatively minor issue in the grand scheme of things. However, such animals are still deemed to be deserving of a basic 'duty of care', at least in so-called 'developed/civilised' countries. What I mean by that is, while it's fine to hunt or farm animals for food if they are killed rapidly and humanely, it is not fine to subject animals (of any order) to slow and painful deaths, simply for the sake of making money.
As a case in point, you may find Germany's laws on 'recreational fishing' somewhat enlightening. Or not … depending on how much of a 'pelican' you are, I guess …
They have been added immediately after replying to your last post, they are in the second paragraph if you missed them.
My final word to any actual purchasers here is this:
The seller's representations about mystery snails (Pomacea sp.) surviving on 'algae, dead plant matter and leftover food' are yet more self-serving rubbish. These snails are quite voracious, so if you want to keep them alive you will need to (—surprise surprise—) actually feed them. Pumpkin is a good option because they love it, and due to its cellular structure/makeup it does not tend to 'leach' impurities into the water, if it is fresh. Once a week you can tie a small bit of pumpkin onto a piece of fishing line, chuck it into the tank, and watch your 'mystery snails' (that are not actually that mysterious) have at it. 'Pull up' any remainder of the chunk within 48 hours, to avoid water spoilage.
Another 'fun fact' about these snails is that they will readily breed, if you have an area slightly above the water level in your tank that gets any sort of regular 'water spray' (such as the glass directly next to or above a filter outlet). They will lay a large clutch of eggs there. If they do that, and you want the eggs to hatch (which is quite something to behold), be careful not to submerge the eggs.
Are these Australian natives?