Sunday, March 21, 2010

Apple Snail

Although you can easily found this snail around Asia, but their origin are not from Asia. This snail have been bring over to Asia to be breed to sell as food, escargot, but it turn into bad as it become easily breed and spreed over in major river and farm. Destroying most aquatic plant and also farming plant. One of the major effect are padi (rice) field.

Its now illegal to breed in Asia, and local are fighting to keep this snail way from their farm and river.

Apple snail come in with lots of variety and color. From gray to colorful blue and stripe. And they are the only type of snail which either male or female. Mean, you got to have a male and a female in order to breed it. And they lay their egg above water level.

Size, the biggest I ever have, its as big as a tennis ball!

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