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Post by maybelline on Feb 4, 2011 10:50:08 GMT
Hello! First of all, I´m from Sweden so my English in not perfect. Hope you will be able to understand what I´m trying to write anyway I am also new at GALS so I do have a lot of questions. This summer I became the proud owner of two Achatina Achatina and two Achatina reticulata (albinos). I bought them as babies and I am shocked how fast they hade grown up to be snail-monsters ;D This morning when I woke up I found my two reticulatas breeding In fact they are stil at it. I´m trying to find out how long it will take until they start laying eggs? I will be forced to pop almost all of them in the freezer so I want to find them as early as possible. Maybe I will try yo hatch a few for me to keep or friends to have. But how does it work... Will all babies be albinos or can som darkbodied babies hatch from two albino parents? I have all my snails in a big tank (without water of course haha), and I am also wondering if the Tigers can breed with the reticulatas? Enlighten me please
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Post by maybelline on Feb 5, 2011 20:35:14 GMT
19 readings and no help? Guess it´s not easy to be a newbie
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Post by ness on Feb 5, 2011 21:02:44 GMT
Hello and welcome. Sorry no-one has managed to answer your questions. Your English is very good. It always impresses me when people type in English - I was always bad at learning other languages! In theory two albino snails should only be able to produce albino babies. However reticulata appear to be able to produce a mix of albino and normal skinned from an albino pairing. I am not going from my own experience, but that of other members. I am not sure how long it takes for the eggs to hatch with this species, I think it's around 2-3 weeks but I hope someone else can answer that question. It is common for retics to die soon after they lay eggs. They don't always die, but they often do. Please don't be shocked if this happens to your retics. The advice that people give is to feed your retics on nourishing food, such as sweet potato, and to give them access to clean water to bathe in, to help them to recover from egg-laying. Retics do not weigh much, their bodies are not very fleshy, so it is thought that so much of their energy goes into producing and laying eggs that they just don't always have enough left afterwards to survive. It is very unlikely that your retics will breed with the tiger snails. If they do they will not be able to produce eggs together. I hope that helps, and sorry again that no-one replied sooner.
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vicki
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Post by vicki on Feb 19, 2011 23:15:38 GMT
''It is common for retics to die soon after they lay eggs. They don't always die, but they often do. Please don't be shocked if this happens to your retics. The advice that people give is to feed your retics on nourishing food, such as sweet potato, and to give them access to clean water to bathe in, to help them to recover from egg-laying. Retics do not weigh much, their bodies are not very fleshy, so it is thought that so much of their energy goes into producing and laying eggs that they just don't always have enough left afterwards to survive.'' After discovering this, im actually upset as 20 mins ago i discovered my only albino retic was laying a batch of eggs. he has returned to the surface now and is looking fine but im panicing like hell trying to find a shop open at this time of night to buy a sweet potato!!! I am a little shocked to find he has laid eggs as i have no other retic and he lives with 4 fulicas and 1 white jade, so im assuming hes either had a go with the white jade? or hes pleasured himself along the way!! (good man!!) I hope my beautiful Alejandro survives!!! xx
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Post by ness on Feb 21, 2011 10:24:21 GMT
How is Alejandro? I was in two minds in a way about mentioning the retic mortality problem as egg-laying is such a joyous thing and I really didn't want to put a downer on it. But then again I wouldn't want you to have a nasty shock of enexpectedly finding your retic had died either.
I very much hope that Alejandro is one of the lucky ones.
I assume Alejandro was a juvenile or adult when you bought him? If so it is very likely that he mated with another retic while with his previous owner and has kept the sperm sperate from the eggs until a couple of weeks ago. It's not unusual for snails kept on their own (or not kept with any more of it's species) to lay fertile eggs. Most species do not self-fertilise, but can mate and then keep the sperm for a very long time, even a year or two, before fertilising the eggs. It is unlikely that your snail mated with the jades, though inter-species matings happen on occasions. Even if this happened there would not be any fertile eggs produced as a result.
All the best xx
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vicki
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Post by vicki on Feb 21, 2011 11:40:59 GMT
Hey, Alejandro at the moment seems normal- eating, eating, eating, pooing, eating and more pooing haha! Ive put him lots more food into his tank with lots of different tastes and he seems great. Im watching his every move but for now... hes ok! *fingers crossed and touches wood*
I got alejandro as a very small baby, around 5-6 weeks old so he came to me very very early on so my only guess is that he has pleasured himself haha... i am very gutted that i froze the eggs after finding out that i could lose Alejandro but i couldnt of kept more than a couple anyway.
xx
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Post by maybelline on Mar 23, 2011 23:01:43 GMT
UPDATE: Both of my retics has now layed one big batch of eggs each. The bigger one two days ago and the slightly smaller one yesterday. They seem fine. They are eating, bathing and so far they are as active as always. Do retics ever sleep? I want to keep one or two babies so I put two eggs into a plastic container with moist material and airholes in the lid. The rest will go into the freezer tomorrow Kind of sad really. Now I hope my two eggs will hatch. My retics are young (got them as babies in august) so I am surprised they laid eggs this soon.
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Post by prowljazz on Sept 22, 2011 18:45:38 GMT
Any Updates? As My Friend has Albino Reticulata's and was looking to Breed Them, so any Info Would Be VERY Helpful.... Thanks
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