tjay
Achatina fulica
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Post by tjay on Jul 18, 2014 6:48:35 GMT
Hi guys, I used to keep A.achatina but he (Giles) passed away about 10 years ago (crikey that long? am old LOL) and recently I became aware of how much easier it is now to find a pet GALS (back then it was hard, lol) and am considering a reticulata, particularly an albino one as I am quite fond of the pale footed. I say 'a' because I am not prepared to keep more and freeze then crush the eggs, now I know this may make me seem like a wuss but it's who I am, I couldn't do it. I realise there is a chance of self fertilization but I will be honest and say I am of the opinion it's more of a stored sperm usage than actually fertilize own eggs with own sperm so if I get my Ret young enough not have collected any sperms to store I limit the risk of her ever laying. I would maybe worry that she would be lonely though and was wondering what species she could have as a room mate without the chance of breeding? I know there may not be one but figured it was worth asking. I kept Giles (my tiger) on his own and he was a happy guy but I'm not sure if ret's would be happy alone or better with a different species for a buddy?
Thanks xxx
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Post by crucify on Jul 19, 2014 22:55:18 GMT
I kept my albino retic with my three fulicas until I bought Caesar, my much larger albino retic. They were raised together and he seemed perfectly happy. I don't recommend keeping snails on their own, they're generally a social species, excluding some carnivorous and exotic exceptions.
If anything, the problem was with Caesar. Seemed like he hadn't seen another snail for a long time, he was absolutely terrified of meeting actual living, breathing snails. He's a bit silly and paranoid around new things, but it could mean that being raised in isolation does have a negative impact on snails socially.
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Post by etana on Jul 20, 2014 4:58:17 GMT
That's very interesting, Crucify! Some people have doubts about whether snails even recognise another snail as, indeed, a snail when they don't intend to mate. That kind of exceptions to their usual behaviour that you just described make it easier to define the actual rules. I'm sure they're more complicated socially than it seems at first. I would suppose that if they were very simple, they couldn't have that kind of social problems.  |
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Post by starcrazy19 on Jul 23, 2014 21:52:32 GMT
Fulica will live with retics, retics like it hotter and wetter but fulica will put up with about anything! I have heard people say that reticulata and fulica can cross-breed but have never seen anyone claim they have one that is a retic cross-bred with anything, or seen any pictures to the effect so that would be very unexpected if you ended up with eggs! You could also try a margie, they would definitely not cross-breed, their lower end temp would overlap with a retic (25 c ish) but there are much more margie-experienced people around who can hopefully give you more info about that |
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Post by muddydragon on Jul 29, 2014 8:25:13 GMT
i would be wary of keeping retics and fulica together i would suspect there to be a high chance of eggs from what i've seen. if you get just one make sure it's from an early age so there is less chance of stored sperm
Margies with a retic may be wiser but i've generally found they aren't that keen on living with other species.
I believe tigers and retics can live together with little chance of cross breeding. but i'm not too up on the conditions for tigers
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