gluckuk
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Post by gluckuk on Aug 27, 2019 17:01:45 GMT
Title for this thread says a lot. I'm a communications major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and I'm creating a documentary as my Directed Project before I graduate. I'm hoping to use this forum as a resource to help with research and getting tips, because none of the biology professors here know anything about land snails!
For the time being, I need help with two things.
1. I would really, really like to find a Rosy Wolfsnail to get some footage of. Looking them up shows that they do naturally occur in Tennessee, but I don't know where. I'm assuming they would be somewhere in southern Tennessee, since their territory originates in Florida, but I'd like to know if anyone knows anything more specific.
2. Are their any snail owners in Tennessee or northern Georgia or Alabama who I can meet with? It would be a good segment for the doc to talk about the snail keeping subculture and how US laws make it harder to own them.
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Post by Liguus on Aug 27, 2019 19:53:30 GMT
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gluckuk
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Post by gluckuk on Aug 28, 2019 19:15:46 GMT
That actually helped me a lot. I got in contact with the UTK professor who wrote the article and the west Nashville homeowner. |
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Post by gluckuk on Sept 22, 2019 16:36:42 GMT
Any snail owners in Tennessee or north Georgia?
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Post by Moose on Sept 28, 2019 19:03:50 GMT
I live in TN myself. I don't have any terrestrial snails (yet!) but I keep mystery and aquatic snails. Hoping to find some grove snails soon though. Not sure if there's anything I can help with, but I love snails and I've lived in TN all my life. If there's anyway I can help, just let me know.
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gluckuk
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Post by gluckuk on Oct 23, 2019 21:11:18 GMT
I live in TN myself. I don't have any terrestrial snails (yet!) but I keep mystery and aquatic snails. Hoping to find some grove snails soon though. Not sure if there's anything I can help with, but I love snails and I've lived in TN all my life. If there's anyway I can help, just let me know. do you plan on having land snails any time soon? |
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Post by Moose on Oct 24, 2019 1:12:31 GMT
I live in TN myself. I don't have any terrestrial snails (yet!) but I keep mystery and aquatic snails. Hoping to find some grove snails soon though. Not sure if there's anything I can help with, but I love snails and I've lived in TN all my life. If there's anyway I can help, just let me know. do you plan on having land snails any time soon? Yes! I'm actively looking for several species. Hopefully this spring I can find them, if not sooner with how much it's been raining. Trying to go the legal route and I don't know any sellers in TN so I'm hunting for them myself. Just yesterday I found patera appressa and ventridens arcellus and I'm considering keeping some. The snail hunt has been strong over here. And if I documentary can being awareness to some of the legal struggles of keeping snails, I'd be willing to help however possible. |
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Post by gluckuk on Oct 28, 2019 21:33:06 GMT
do you plan on having land snails any time soon? Yes! I'm actively looking for several species. Hopefully this spring I can find them, if not sooner with how much it's been raining. Trying to go the legal route and I don't know any sellers in TN so I'm hunting for them myself. Just yesterday I found patera appressa and ventridens arcellus and I'm considering keeping some. The snail hunt has been strong over here. And if I documentary can being awareness to some of the legal struggles of keeping snails, I'd be willing to help however possible. I started out with wild caught snails. Snails in the genus Mesodon are all over the state and they're a fairly large size and not endagered in any way, so they make excellent pets! |
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