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Post by Liguus on Jul 20, 2015 23:52:45 GMT
As some of you may know from previous posts I'm in Florida this week and looking for land snails. Today I drove 2.5 hours to the Barnacle Historic State Park as well as to Matheson Hammock to look for Caracolus marginella and Orthalicus. I came up empty handed on the Orthalicus but I did manage to find C. marginella. I hope to still find Orthalicus tomorrow morning when I go to the everglades, but I'm doubtful that I will find them. I'm also going look around for drymaeus multilineatus tomorrow afternoon at a site where I have seen them previous years. I will sell a few of these snails next month (USA only). Wooded area around The Barnacle:   Three color morphs of caracolus. Yellow was most common, Orange less common, and brown was very rare.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 1:02:54 GMT
Wow, that's awesome! Hope you find what you're looking for. Is that you in the second picture? ^_^
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Post by Cashell on Jul 21, 2015 1:33:50 GMT
Wow, I never knew that the U.S.A actually had pleurodonte marginella! That's so cool. I wish we had them here.
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Post by astana on Jul 21, 2015 2:55:18 GMT
Very, very cool. I'm very excited for you.
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Post by Evan on Jul 21, 2015 21:56:26 GMT
Wow! They have those here? I hope you find some great snails! I will get some if you do sell some.
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Post by Liguus on Jul 22, 2015 2:33:44 GMT
Day 3: Sanibel- Only found 9 Drymaeus multilineatus (another legal US species). I might go back and look for more, but I'm unsure if I will drive all the way back to look for them again. I may have to rely on these to breed before I can give any away.  ![]()  The Everglades- very few snails, I saw a few Liguus but much less than in previous years. I think someone should start another breeding program (at least for the Collier-Seminole State Park) as I only saw three, and a few dead ones on the ground. The ones I pulled off of the trees were deeply retracted and seemed to appreciate being sprayed with some water before being placed back onto the tree. Lots of Melampus coffea were near the swamps. I can sell these, and I have a decent amount of them.  At the hotel in Fort Myers- Zachrysia is relatively common here.  |
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Post by Zorst on Jul 22, 2015 4:29:06 GMT
Sure are some lovely snails there that I wish we had over here.
I especially like the Drymaeus multilineatus and remember seeing them many yrs ago when visiting with friends in Florida.
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Post by muddydragon on Jul 22, 2015 8:07:15 GMT
*drool* GORGEOUS!
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Post by astana on Jul 22, 2015 16:33:11 GMT
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful snails. I don't think you should sell the Drymaeus multilineatus if there's so few of them lol.
Also, what are you feeding the snails? I'm especially interested in what the Caracolus marginella and Drymaeus are eating.
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Post by Evan on Jul 22, 2015 17:45:25 GMT
Day 3: Sanibel- Only found 9 Drymaeus multilineatus (another legal US species). I might go back and look for more, but I'm unsure if I will drive all the way back to look for them again. I may have to rely on these to breed before I can give any away. ![]() The Everglades- very few snails, I saw a few Liguus but much less than in previous years. I think someone should start another breeding program (at least for the Collier-Seminole State Park) as I only saw three, and a few dead ones on the ground. The ones I pulled off of the trees were deeply retracted and seemed to appreciate being sprayed with some water before being placed back onto the tree. Lots of Melampus coffea were near the swamps. I can sell these, and I have a decent amount of them. At the hotel in Fort Myers- Zachrysia is relatively common here. Beautiful!! I wish I could find those!! Name your price! |
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Post by Cashell on Jul 22, 2015 19:58:25 GMT
Those Drymaeus multilineatus are very exotic looking and gorgeous! They look like little achatinas.
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Post by Liguus on Jul 22, 2015 21:39:58 GMT
lol, yeah, they're like mini-GALS. I was hoping to find at least 40, but I will have to breed these and sell them next year (there is not as many snails around here like previous years). I will do the best I can to find more before I leave on Saturday, but I'm unsure if I will be driving around sanibel again.
I also found one Helicina in the evergaldes, either clappi or orbiculata, but I dropped it in the leaf litter and it was lost -_-
The snails are slow to eat vegetables, but they are grazing a bit on blended veg paste. I will get some algae wafers and mushrooms soon, and hopefully they will like that paste better.
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Post by Liguus on Jul 23, 2015 17:53:01 GMT
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Post by Liguus on Jul 23, 2015 21:10:41 GMT
Young pair of Euglandina rosea  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 22:51:30 GMT
So you're keeping all the snails you find?
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Post by astana on Jul 23, 2015 23:29:18 GMT
The rosy wolfs are so adorable... it's a pity they're carnivorous (there's no way I could regularly supply them snails and slugs.)
The helicina are very interesting. They really do look like sea snails.
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Post by Liguus on Jul 24, 2015 3:21:57 GMT
So you're keeping all the snails you find? Well...I left the melampus container open and all those escaped lol. -_- I'm super excited about the Helicina though, so that takes my mind off of it lol. |
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Post by Liguus on Jul 24, 2015 3:37:29 GMT
The rosy wolfs are so adorable... it's a pity they're carnivorous (there's no way I could regularly supply them snails and slugs.)
The helicina are very interesting. They really do look like sea snails.
How are you going to price them? Hopefully these wolfsnails will eat clam meat like the older one I have. I really wanted to find a breeding pair since my other wolfsnail seems to be very old. I might need more for a sustainable population, because if a single breeding pair isn't a genetic bottleneck then I don't know what is lol. The wolfsnails were also very close to where Liguus occurs, so I took them to prevent them from eating the Liguus. Not exactly "letting nature take its course" but Liguus is my favorite snail. I have no idea how I will price these. First i'll have to set everything up at home, make sure all the snails survive, and then once they start breeding I will have them available. The price will likely decrease as time goes on and i really have "extras" i can sell instead of something which can be used to breed more snails. I'm not 100% sure the helicina will breed, but I will give it a go. I likely will only have C. marginella for sale in august as I have enough for a "breeding program". But I expect them to be sold out soon. I also think I'll only ship May-Early Sept so that they don't freeze to death |
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Post by astana on Jul 24, 2015 15:52:25 GMT
Got it, thank you.
I do want some C. marginella. They're extraordinary snails. Hopefully they'll be within my price range.
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Post by Evan on Jul 24, 2015 19:59:05 GMT
I can't wait!
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Post by Liguus on Jul 25, 2015 0:45:38 GMT
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Post by Cashell on Jul 25, 2015 1:08:39 GMT
Boy, you sure are lucky that my hand can't go through the screen!  |
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Post by astana on Jul 25, 2015 1:16:20 GMT
Ahhhhhh they're beautiful!
I'm pretty sure that you shouldn't take them, though, because Liguus seems to be getting very scarce.
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Post by Liguus on Jul 25, 2015 2:08:23 GMT
Ahhhhhh they're beautiful! I'm pretty sure that you shouldn't take them, though, because Liguus seems to be getting very scarce. The Liguus are pictures only  |
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Post by astana on Jul 25, 2015 2:26:47 GMT
Okay, good. Nice job finding them, though!
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