My snails Dee and Snaily!

[snailboat]

This is Dee.  She likes to eat lettuce upside down, or halfway upside down :-)

   

And here's a picture with Snaily and Dee side by side!

[Dumbledore]

Cuties!

[dancingsock]

Aw, they're both gorgeous.

[Cashell]

Pretty shells!

[snailboat]

This is a picture my friend took of Snaily a while ago...  Shiny, shiny shell :-D



And here's a picture of Dee when I first caught her!

[lescargot]

Very nice sails in beautifully shot photos.!

[muddydragon]

lovely photos

[greyphoenix]

Awww, gorgeous, gorgeous snails! Thank you for introducing them!

[Deleted]

The one on the cuttlefish looks like my favorite GAL Star,

[vallery]

Hi snailboat ,

That first photo of Dee eating upside down is great I love it. Snaily and Dee are really gorgeous snails, their shells are beautiful and in amazing shape. Do you simply feed them cuttle fish bone or another source of calcium as well. Great photos snailboat thank you for sharing.

vallery

[snailboat]

That's the only source of calcium right now. Their basic foods are romaine lettuce and cuttlebone, so I make sure they always have those two, but I try to give them other foods when I have them so they have a little variety :-)

[snailboat]

One more picture of Snaily :-)

[greyphoenix]

Aww, I love it! Great pics!

[andreiamlm]

so cute congrats happy snails!

[snailboat]

I hope it's okay if I keep posting pictures now and then... :-)

Here are a couple pictures of Snaily enjoying a slice of banana!







I've been trying to give them a little more varied diet.  Right now it's romaine, carrot, banana, and cuttle.  I'm not sure what else to give them right now, but since I added carrot it's been Snaily's favorite!

Here's Dee:



Dee never really finished getting the stripeys near the opening of her shell, and I don't really know why not.  I make sure she always has cuttle available and sometimes I put her on it, and I know she eats it sometimes, but I've also caught her rasping at the lip of her shell now and then.  Snaily finished growing his shell pretty well with the same environment and food.  I hope everything's okay!  I guess I should try to get a better picture of Dee's shell sometime.

Here's baby Bean, who is starting to grow a proper shell, with stripeys and all :-)  She's now over a month old!



Bean is Snaily and Dee's baby, still pretty tiny but a lot bigger than when she hatched!

[snailboat]

Snaily posed like this for about ten minutes :-)  I think my snail wanted to climb out of the water so he felt safe from drowning, but wanted to keep his foot in the water!



Here are a couple shots from right after Snaily's shower





And here's baby Bean, who seemed to be drinking individual drops of water for a while:

   

And back in her cage:



For a while this morning, she seemed to want to drink water and avoided any food, but then she got tired of the water and crawled onto the food, and she spent a while alternating between cuttle and romaine :-)

I want to take more pictures of Dee, but she's asleep right now!

[muddydragon]

Dec 18, 2013 16:17:11 GMT snailboat said:

I hope it's okay if I keep posting pictures now and then... :-)

EVERYONE LOVES PHOTOS! infact we only object if people don't post enough pretty photos

Your snails are gorgeous! Lovely pictures

[andreiamlm]

loved your photos!
keep posting please!
could you post one to show the whole terrarium?
they seem very happy. also do you use a very fancy camera? the photos are great, very detailed!

Just one baby snail? Did the others eggs didn't hatch?

[snailboat]

Oh! Okay, I can post a few more ^-^  All the pictures are taken with my iPhone, except the one really nice one my friend took with her nice camera :-)

Here's the terrarium with the lid on and off:





Originally I got this cage for one snail from PetCo, but they didn't sell snails so I had to find one outside!  I found Snaily and brought him home and kept him in this cage and fed him for a while :-)  And then I thought it might be sad if he never saw another snail for the rest of his life, so I went and caught another snail, Dee!  I was surprised to discover her personality was completely different from Snaily's.  For starters, Snaily doesn't really seem to like being misted, and whenever I spray him he snails as far as he can, climbing the walls, ceilings, walls again, and all over :-)  When I mist Dee, she just sits there and enjoys it!  She especially likes sitting in a little puddle.

Anyway, they looked different at first, and I wasn't sure they'd be able to mate, but they did, and Snaily laid eggs--about eighty of them!  I'm afraid I wasn't prepared to raise dozens of snails, so I froze all of the eggs except one, which I left in the corner, and 11 days later Bean hatched from her egg!  So now I have three snailies, and I put the divider in to keep the baby separate until she's a little bigger.  It's a little cramped now with the divider and three snails.  I wonder when it'll be safe to take the divider out?

Here's a picture of one-month-old Bean enjoying some carrot!  Like Snaily, she seems to get really excited about carrot slices.



Snailies being silly:

[andreiamlm]

thank you so much for your photos =)
I have a similiar terrarium but mine is a bit taller it looks like your has enough space for them to go around can I ask what is the measurements?
I'm sorry if my english is a bitty strange ehhe
I'm Portuguese currently living in Lisbon
I often wonder about that too, giving my snail a bit of company but didn't get to find another one.
This one, Speedy is its name, was rescued from a bag of dry herbs

Mine really likes sweet potato not completely raw but nuked for a few seconds on microwave, like 30 secs, I let it cool and he seems to be very happy eating it

you have such a happy snail family!
loved it <3

[vallery]

Hi Snailboat ,

Keep posting your great photos I love to follow your thread.

Snaily's shell is so beautiful.

Love to see more close ups of Snaily.

vallery:)

[snailboat]

Snaily sleeps with one eye open sometimes :-)



I took some more pictures of Bean exploring the lid:



Bean is so cute!!





Her shell is developing so well! :-) 

[Zorst]

Great Snail photo's, thanks for sharing.

Zorst

[snailboat]

I made a video of my baby snail Bean eating cuttle! :-)  You can set it to 1080p and fullscreen, and hopefully see enough detail to see inside her translucent body as she eats.



Here's Bean upside down on the ceiling :-)



And on the cuttle



And some pictures of Snaily being cute! :-) 



I think Snaily's shell looks really nice in this one :-)

[muddydragon]

they're all so beautiful!