Adamietta english

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Description:

The smooth shell is up to approximately 3 cm long and 1 cm wide and has 8 to 10 whorls. The apex is mostly corroded. The suture is visible, but not deep, the whorls are rather flat. The basic color is yellow to beige, with reddish-brown longitudinal stripes. The shell shows a black film on the uppermost layer, which doesn't dissolve easily at a pH value under 7, yet it dissolves.

The brown operculum is paucispiral and closes the shell off entirely.

The ovoid, two-notched aperture has a white lip. The grey-beige body shows a dark grey and black pattern. The eyes are located at the bases of the thin tentacles.

Range/Habitat:

This snail can be found from Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia to South Vietnam in lowland rice field feeder ditches, muddy slow-flowing rivers as well as temporarily flooded muddy ponds. Their location underlies the tropical alternating climate, which is characterized by year-round high temperatures, summer precipitation (rainy season from April to October), no or nearly no precipitation in winter (dry season from October to March). They should be kept at 20 to 30 °C in the aquarium, depending on the time of year.

Reproduction:

Adamietta housei is dioecious. The male inseminates the female by passing a spermatophor, I have no idea whether they are viviparous or oviparous :o), Frank Köhler writes he has found egg capsules from time to time but no young snails, thus the question about the exact snail birth remains unsolved.

Life span:
Unfortunately, the editor does not have any data regarding the life span of these snails.

Food:

They proved flexible regarding the food they take. All kinds of food pellets are accepted, food tablets and granules with a higher content of animal protein are preferred. The snail also eats vegetables, dead plant parts, muck and algae. It proved assertive when competing for food.

The aquarium/the snails' requirements/socialization:

In a tank with a length of under 60 cm or a volume of under 50 liters they don't seem to do well. The water hardness obviously does not play an important role, however, the pH value should not drop lower than 6.5. The aquarium has to be covered – and completely, as this snail leaves the tank, seldomly. Moreover, its preferred grazing and resting grounds are mosses growing up to the water surface. It seems to like staying there, between water and the air. It also does well in a well-stocked invert tank, however, it reacts sensitively to Radix species (pond snails).

As Adamietta does not dig in the substrate its composition does not matter. However, make sure the snails cannot get trapped in the set-up; they like to crawl between stones in order to search for leftover food there, then fall into the gaps and cannot get out on their own.

It does not do well with aggressive or intrusive fish over time, however, the socialization with dwarf shrimp should not be a problem.

Additional information:

Bringing loam or healing earth into the tank has also proven positive with this snail, it regularly goes to these earthy spots; I can only guess as to what it does there, however, it behaves a lot more agile since the earth has been in the tank.

Source:

Dr. Frank Köhler

Empiricism

This page has been actualized on August 24, 2008

Author: Alexandra Behrendt

Translator: Ulrike Bauer


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