Baby hatchlings!

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I got some achatina fulica eggs, and they have started to hatch! I haven't really seen any of the babies peaking outside their shell yet, but I did notice two of them have eaten all their egg shell and grown a bit.
I'm so very very nervous I'm going to do something wrong that will kill them, because they seem so fragile. Do you have any tips? They got a cuddlefish bone and a piece of cucomber, but they havn't really moved from the place they hatched. One of them looks like its starting to eat the egg shell of a sibling (its clinging to it).

anyway, I'm so very excited Here is some pics




I moved this one on the cuddlebone.. I hope it doesn't mind

[Dumbledore]

Cuddlefish?

My advise is to not really handle them much.

[malacophile]

Definitely don't handle them unless you absolutely have to. If you do, use a very light touch. Mine took a few days to start moving around, and once they did, they didn't go far. It was around a week before they started climbing the sides of their container.

There's really no need to worry about something killing them- fulicas are hardy to a ridiculous degree. All 14 eggs I kept from early September hatched, and they're all still alive. They have no qualms about chowing down on their siblings' eggshells, and mine did the same thing. But at this point, it's not likely to result in any fatalities. Instead, it seems to help the others hatch.

[afezy90]

wow that nice ones giesji.actually how long did it take it to hatch my eggs hasnt hatched yet

[muddydragon]

baby snails are tough little bliters the best advise is to just leave them to it, they spend the first few days eating their eggs shells (and their neighbours!) so don't worry about that it's good for them it's probably detrimental to remove them from the shells. I often let mine start off in the same tanks as their parents and just leave them to it for a few weeks there's no problem atall they just eat the same stuff as the parents just don'nt handle them much when they're tiny. Cucumber hasn't got the greatest nutritional value so i'ld maybe but something a bit more solid in for them


I love the typo of cuddlefish! Cuttlefish are pretty darn cute, who wouldn't want to cuddle them! maybe we should rename them

*Who want's a cuddle?*:
(not my photo, from google)

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lol, didn't notice my typo But cuttlefish are kind of cuddly, aren't they?

thx for the advice! I have been handling two of them (because I'm so curious, and also had to take some cutie pictures of them) but I've been using a soft tweezer, I think is especially made for handling small soft animals (or at least that what I think.. I accidentally stole it from my biology class last year :/ )

I don't think the snail in the egg of which the other one ate survived. It looks like its drying up in the shell But at least I think the other one got enough calcium that day.

[Cashell]

Nice pics!

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Oct 26, 2013 11:41:08 GMT afezy90 said:

wow that nice ones giesji.actually how long did it take it to hatch my eggs hasnt hatched yet

I think it took about two weeks, but I can't say for sure how old the eggs were, since I got them from someone who has achatina fulica.
But I noticed that the eggs go from white, to clear, to white and just before they are ready to hatch, they get this yellow-ish markings on it. It almost looks like a tiny little dino egg

[vallery]

I usually scrap a bit of cuttlefish bone over the egg and hatchling area so they can have some straight away and I put some very thin small slices of carrot in the area since it doesn't rot but goes sort of rubbery.