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Post by vallery on Feb 10, 2013 11:22:27 GMT
Pleurodonte isabella egg pot overflowing.  Attachments:
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Post by vallery on Feb 18, 2013 23:05:58 GMT
Pleurodonte Isabella baby. Notice how the edge of the shell is sharp when they are babies and become round when adults. The Pleurodonte Marginella adults that tsrebel posted seem to keep the sharp edge around the center of their shell. Attachments:
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Post by malacophile on Feb 19, 2013 5:21:42 GMT
He looks like a little flying saucer! The aliens have landed!  |
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Post by vallery on Feb 19, 2013 14:34:23 GMT
Ha! Ha! malacophile ;D they do look like little flying saucers. Maybe I will name him UFO. Thank you for the idea . The eggs from The Pleurodonte Isabella egg pot that I posted on here are just starting to hatch. I will try to get some good pictures for this thread. They are so tiny. vallery |
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Post by vallery on Feb 20, 2013 4:42:19 GMT
Here is a photo of the Pleurodonte isabella babies that are just starting to hatch from the egg pot photo I posted on this thread. I had found the eggs in the adult tank on February 01 and placed them in an egg pot and then into a separate container due to the episode when I found the adult Pleurodonte isabella eating the eggs. Since this picture, taken in the morning 4 more babies have hatched by the evening. The piece of bark they are on is a piece that I have had laying over the top of the egg pot since I placed the eggs in the egg pot and they have been attaching themselves to that after hatching. I have placed a small piece of cucumber with powdered eggshell and a tiny bit of fish food at the side in the pot for the newborns. Babies in my the adult tank always tend to hide under pieces of bark and come out to eat then go back under the bark. Once they are a little larger like the picture of the baby I recently posted on this thread (named UFO with the help of malacophiles observation), on my finger tip, they tend to be out and about the tank more. UFO is the only surviving baby from the last batch of eggs that hatched. These newborns are very light in color so hopefully they will survive and it will be interesting to see what shell colors come out of this batch. UFO looks like he will end up having a brown shell. vallery Attachments:
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Post by vallery on Feb 20, 2013 20:01:30 GMT
Today there are 8 vallery Attachments:
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Post by tsrebel on Apr 10, 2013 18:32:09 GMT
My P. marginellas have reproduced! Finally! I was wondering what I did wrong. They may have eaten their own eggs, like P. isabellas do, or maybe they didn't think the time was right before. I found 3 (didn't search the soil, so there are probably more):  They are quite large and don't really look newly hatched. I have a hard time imagening their eggs. I suspect that they spend their life buried for weeks before they surface. P. isabellas also do that (mine did, when I had them). These babies are so beautiful! I'm really in love, and this one seemed to return my feelings (nibbling):  More pics: snegler.wordpress.com/#jp-carousel-3123 |
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Post by vallery on Apr 12, 2013 17:30:12 GMT
Pleurodonte Isabella babies in comparison to an adult. Attachments:
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Post by vallery on Apr 12, 2013 17:32:09 GMT
My P. marginellas have reproduced! Finally! I was wondering what I did wrong. They may have eaten their own eggs, like P. isabellas do, or maybe they didn't think the time was right before. I found 3 (didn't search the soil, so there are probably more): They are quite large and don't really look newly hatched. I have a hard time imagening their eggs. I suspect that they spend their life buried for weeks before they surface. P. isabellas also do that (mine did, when I had them). These babies are so beautiful! I'm really in love, and this one seemed to return my feelings (nibbling): More pics: snegler.wordpress.com/#jp-carousel-3123Wow! Those are so beautiful. I would love to own some of them. The photos are great tsrebel valleryl |
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Post by vallery on Apr 12, 2013 17:39:14 GMT
Newly laid Pleurodonte isabella eggs to be moved to the Cepaea tank due to the fact the Adult P. isabella eat the eggs if they have a chance. All of my egg are hatched in the Cepaea tank then moved back into the P. isabella tank. So the babies you see in the post before I quoted tsrebels photos (which are gorgeous) were all born in my cepaea tank then placed in the adult P isabella tank. vallery Attachments:
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Post by tsrebel on May 4, 2013 22:02:03 GMT
I'm now pretty sure that also P. marginella eat their eggs. I've seen them mate nearly every night for almost a month and I've spotted 6 babies. I can't search their tank for eggs very often, so I'll move the babies to another tank as soon as it is ready. With 6 babies (may be more) and 3 adults in the same tank I don't expect to see more babies. Of course I don't know how many eggs they lay, so there is a small chance that they lay less than 10 eggs, but I doubt it. Here is a pic of the adults about to start mating:  |
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Post by graemepryce on May 5, 2013 6:19:16 GMT
I am quite a fan of the P. Isobella myself. I have 3 of them in my tank and they are very very active indeed and lay eggs all through the summer and autumn.
It can certainly be difficult to find information on them though and I must say - though they lay often and a lot at once I don't get hatchlings often. I keep 2 or 3 from each clutch so I don't get over run if they all hatch one time.
I'm tempted to do a photo shoot with my guys now . . . . .
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Post by vallery on Nov 27, 2013 15:36:54 GMT
Since all of my past photos are gone due to the forum format change and with so much help from morningcoffee I can now post photos and I will be reposting Pleurodonte Isabella photos and information and I hope others will post about there own Pleurodonte species not just P. Isabella but other species of pleurodonte as well. will try to delete posts of mine where the photos disappeared as those posts are really just useless now. vallery |
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Post by tsrebel on Nov 27, 2013 19:36:48 GMT
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Post by muddydragon on Nov 28, 2013 10:45:43 GMT
oh they are stunning! what lovely photos! i love number four, the one at the back looks like hes going "ooo but i want to go intot he bamboo  " ha |
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Post by vickyholt13 on Nov 28, 2013 13:28:07 GMT
Your pleurodonte excellens are stunning they are on my wish list along with pleurodonte marginella. I have 4 pleurodonte sp Barbados and 6 pleurodonte Isabella I love them so sweet
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Post by tsrebel on Nov 28, 2013 14:18:33 GMT
Thanks! Both my P.excellens and P. marginella (a little less) are more nocturnal than most snails, so they are hard to get good pictures of them. But they are lovely species!
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Post by vallery on Nov 29, 2013 16:17:21 GMT
Those photos are amazing tsrebel. One thing I noticed about my P. Isabella babies is that they seem to remain underneath the bark that I lay over the egg pots for a long time before the start roaming around the tank (they stick to the bottom of the bark). So I have been making sure I put a tiny bit of food and cuttlefish bone with them while they are staying under there. Presently I have three batches of eggs only two have hatched so far though.
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