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why is the blood of the snail blue in colour?

because they have phycocyanin pigments

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1st u tell me why is our blood is in red colour.?

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Snail is a mollusc, and molluscs have the pigment haemocyanin (containing Copper) in their blood. Hence their blood is Blue in colour.
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Hi!! Snails are molluscs, and hence their blood contains a kind of pigment called haemocyacnin which causes it to become blue.
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And Anjali, our blood contains an oxygen carrier named Haemoglobin, hence our blood is red in colour.
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