peas
Achatina fulica
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Post by peas on Feb 6, 2017 14:47:04 GMT
Two days ago I was greeting to a nice sight when I checked on my snails, a single pearly white egg on the surface of the leaf litter.
So today I set about finding the other eggs because we all know the if there's one egg there's bound to be more. However I only found one other egg that was buried, the buried egg was by itself and not in the clutch like the first egg.
I turned that substrate inside-out much to the displeasure of my cleanup crew but couldn't find any other eggs at all.
How common is this for a GALS to just lay two eggs in two completely different locations? Since everything online seems to say it's always a clutch of like 30+.
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Post by etana on Feb 6, 2017 17:37:17 GMT
It's pretty normal for them to drop a few "test eggs", especially if it's a relatively young snail who's never had babies before. However, I used to have a very sneaky snail who would hide single eggs in clever places, and he'd always lay eggs he'd kept in for very long, so they'd hatch super quick. He was able to hide a whole clutch very well, too. That snail outsmarted me so many embarrassing times.
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peas
Achatina fulica
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Post by peas on Feb 7, 2017 13:22:26 GMT
Ah okay, that makes sense. Yeah they're not not even a year old yet.
Cool!
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