Post by Liguus on Aug 16, 2015 22:11:10 GMT
On my trip to florida last month I found a pair of young rosy wolfsnails. A bit of a low number, but I was unable to find more in a limited time. I would have preferred at least 10 individuals as I normally experience a few wild-caught snails dying off while transitioning to captivity.
The smaller one seems to be dead, and I'm afraid the larger one will soon be dead as well since it looks like the mantle has detached from the shell. 13 years of snail keeping and I have not had a mantle collapse issue until today :/ It also looks the the visceral mass has dropped down into the foot (not visible in photos, but visible in good lighting). Their terrarium is short (about 4 inches tall) so I don't think a fall would have caused this, and I of course don't pull the snails off of the walls. Maybe it was a feeding issue? I have been giving them a few slugs each week, as well as a clutch of new hatched snails I missed when they were eggs.
They have laid 5 eggs, which I have transferred to a separate container. Hopefully they will hatch and grow into adulthood. I've wanted to have a "captive-bred version" of this snail for a long time.
P.s. The larger adult wolfsnail I have posted about previously died a few weeks ago. They say the typical lifespan of Euglandina is 2 years, so it may just have been the older ones time.
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The smaller one seems to be dead, and I'm afraid the larger one will soon be dead as well since it looks like the mantle has detached from the shell. 13 years of snail keeping and I have not had a mantle collapse issue until today :/ It also looks the the visceral mass has dropped down into the foot (not visible in photos, but visible in good lighting). Their terrarium is short (about 4 inches tall) so I don't think a fall would have caused this, and I of course don't pull the snails off of the walls. Maybe it was a feeding issue? I have been giving them a few slugs each week, as well as a clutch of new hatched snails I missed when they were eggs.
They have laid 5 eggs, which I have transferred to a separate container. Hopefully they will hatch and grow into adulthood. I've wanted to have a "captive-bred version" of this snail for a long time.
P.s. The larger adult wolfsnail I have posted about previously died a few weeks ago. They say the typical lifespan of Euglandina is 2 years, so it may just have been the older ones time.
