My snails&slugs (many pictures)

[czkot]

Hi all, because I'm a new member . Very sorry for my language-it's not perfect. I'm crazy about snails! I would like to show you some pics of my landsnails and slugs. I hope you'll enjoy them
1. Cepaea nemoralis, my favourite snails. They're nearly all CB, I cross-bred them for 3 years and I have many morphs.



2.Vallonia pulchella (can you see him?)


3. Subulina octona


4. Cochlicopa sp.


5. Trochulus hispidus

6. Deroceras sp.

7. Limax maximus (old photos, they're now about 15cm long)


8. Oxychilus draparnaudi

9. Achatina achatina, L.albopicta, Arch.marginata ovum and fulicas (I have albino and albino body).


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10. My "snail hospital"
I rescue wild snails with damaged shells (e.g. when someone crushed it). I repair shells, sometimes filling broken parts by pieces of other shells. Some pics of results

before:

and after:

[Zorst]

Nice snail pic's. I also repair damaged shell's of snails my rug rats find in there wanderings. They always bring them home from school.

Zorst

[morningcoffee]

Beautiful snails/slugs and wonderful photos

[czkot]

Thank you
It's very nice to hear that someone try to help them and repair their shell, Zorst.
Here's a little bit freaky baby C.nemoralis. One of he's tentacles is very small, he's also much smaller than his siblings. His name is Cyclop

[Zorst]

AHHH he's cute, We have one C.nemoralis here that has 3 eyes, 2 normal ones and one smaller one in the center of his head. I'll try and take a photo to post but he's still pretty small.

Zorst

[czkot]

Is your cepaea CB or did you just find it? I had some scalariform babies but unfortunatly, all them died. I was keeping Cyclop isolated from other snails, when he was very small, and care much for him.

[Zorst]

He's first generation captive bred, his parents were wild caught when the storms hit the coast line here and I found some Cepaea in some sand dunes that were being washed away by the storms. I Bought them home n kept them in a couple of separate tanks to the other Cepaea that I have. He came from the first clutch of eggs that they laid. He's currently in a nursery tank with some of the other young snails and is doing well.

Zorst

[czkot]

Up :)some new pic's of my GALS and other species:
slimaki.info.pl/fotorelacja-22-05-2014/

[SwiftSnail]

The Oxychilus sp. are quite beautiful! Is their shell naturally that shiny and opaque?

[czkot]

Their shells are shiny and quite transparent (you can see snail's heart, it's amazing).
I found no difference between WC and CB snails' shells .

[SwiftSnail]

I wish that here we anything that's not a Helix Aspersa (Sorry, Felix XD)

[czkot]

Lucky you! It's hard to get any Helix species here . Aspersas are not native for my country, and breeding pomatias is illegal.

[SwiftSnail]

Really? There is nothing BUT Helix Aspersas here. Not even one Helix pomatia o-O

[czkot]

I took these photos 2 weeks ago . Colour variation of my Cepaea:
slimaki.info.pl/warianty-barwne-naszych-wstezykow/
An article tells about what's characteristic in this 2 breeding lines. There's no english translation on my site, I'm very sorry. But look at the pics' I'm soo pround of my Cepaea! It's the first generation of leucistic snails in the 'rose line' . I've got very many liht-skinned snails but only 2 leucistic.

You can also see more photos on fb:
www.facebook.com/pages/%C5%9Alimaki/1418190665116224?fref=ts