Gold Striped Mystery Snail

Snail - Gold Striped Mystery

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Please choose a shipping method that will get these to you within 2-3 days. Keep in mind that any delivery times from the Post Office are just estimates. They are often times slower. It's best to order snails at the beginning of the week, not past Tuesday.  We will refund any snails that are DOA, but we will not refund any shipping costs. Email a clear photo with all snails in one photo with the trap door visible. Take the photo with the snails out of the water)

Small: Dime  size
Large: Nickel to Qtr size:
Jumbo: 50 Cent size and up

We cannot determine the sex of the snails before shipping. 

Gold Striped Mystery Snail These are similar to the Golden variety, but the color is less intense and brownish-gold colored. When mature, the stripes tend to disappear and they lose any goldish coloring.  If you breed these together, you should get a mix of a few colors.

We are not advertising these as having 'perfect' shells. Some will show some small imperfection like a slight crack or some pitting around the spiral. The older they get, the obvious these imperfections can become.  Small ones tend to have nothing too obvious.

What to Expect - Pomacea diffusa (formally P. bridgesii), these beautiful snails are an apple snail that comes in several color varieties. We will be adding more color varieties in the future. The only plant we've seen them eat is duckweed - which they love. A really big one will grow to about 2.25" in diameter. They lay their eggs in a cluster just above the waterline, so it's easy to control them. Just remove the clusters or keep the water to the top of the tank. Dark Striped Purple (DSP) has a dark foot with purple shell and purple stripes. The Light Striped Purple (LSP) has a light foot with a purple shell and purple stripes. The foot color affects the way the shell base color appears and the shade of the purple. There is a fair amount of variation among adults. The ivory apple snail has a light foot in a clear shell. Keep in mind that shell color changes as they grow. As it grows, the shell becomes thicker and less translucent. The pigments often deepen and change in hue. Large adults tend to have less bright colors (though not always) and shells with more imperfections.

 Diet - They will eat almost anything, but in our experience they must have quite a bit of protein. Many people feed them mostly vegetables and they will not grow as well without higher protein levels. We feed them a lot of Vegetable Discs, Weekender Pellets, and Primal Pellets.   

This time-lapse video shows them eating a few Vegetable Discs that were put in a tank of snails (along with some bristlenose). 

The Snail - Gold Striped Mystery is a customer favorite, and we hope you like it just as much.

Inventory Last Updated: Dec 08, 2024

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James Danielson
wonderful

im very happy with my snail! He’s very active and gets along great with my betta.

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ELIZABETH PALMISANO
mystery snails

Snails arrived just fine and in good time. Great experience.

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Deb
Mystery snail

Mystery snail this is my third snail from this company they are good and doing well so I do recommend them thanks