Welcome Sherman!

[KathyM]

Sherman arrived today (margie ovum)! He's superginormous, and very affectionate. I put the tidgers (Justin and Jethro) in another tank today so it's just him and Keith the fulica - let's just say their eyes met and Keith is now Mr Lover-Lover. He was quite pathetically following Sherman around with his bits out. So how did Sherman formally introduce himself? By sitting on Keith - you could *just* see one of Keith's eyes and his mouth, and he carried on eating throughout!

Here are some pics I took:

Poking out for the first time on arrival:


Sherman says hello to the new human..









...and meets Keith the randy sod..

[sezzy5889]

hes gorgeous :-) Is he wild caught?

[KathyM]

Nope captive bred (see classifieds).

[sezzy5889]

I was just asking, because you wouldn't want to put a wild caught snail in straight away with your others, but hes not so thats good, and hes lovely.

[KathyM]

I wouldn't have put him in with Keith if he was wild caught

[Evelyn]

He is beautyful!

[KathyM]

Thank you! I'm a bit addicted - he's my first margie and I can't see him being the last. He's just a babe.

[section8angel]

Lol margies are lazy &$%£s!!! At least mine are anyway

Just shows again how varied snails are, that shell looks totally different to Freddies lol

Very nice though

[fatslug]

Glad to see he got there OK ;D

[sezzy5889]

oh he won't be your last, i had two from Brixton. One died 2 weeks ago, and now i am replacing her with 5 more, LOL

[ian]

I got my first one about two weeks ago now im building up a little collection. They are def my faves, my biggest one Enid is so beautiful, but they are soo lazy whats with that? Im going to try to get Enid to breed with one but i dont think they will have the energy!

[snail]

WOW he is massive, i like big snails, looks like they kill u lol.

[eric2]

mine arent lazy in fact they never sleep and they lay eggs every two weeks

[section8angel]

Haha. You must feed them drugs Eric Mine and Ians are lazy Hah lol

[Arno]

eric2 said:

mine arent lazy in fact they never sleep and they lay eggs every two weeks

Every two weeks ,you must be overrun with babies then

[eric2]

im overrun with eggs only one baby though the first 30 odd eggs(maybe more) they laid didnt hatch

[LisaLQ]

Awww this fella lives just over the fence from me (Kathy does anyway LOL she's not bought him his own house!), and I really want to go see him but have to settle for piccies as cant walk at the moment. Am very very jealous, wish I had a margie or two (or tigers or...etc etc) ;D

[sezzy5889]

you will don't worry

[KathyM]

fatslug said:

Glad to see he got there OK ;D

He was out and scoffing sweet potato within five minutes of arriving *lol*. He's been sleeping this morning but last night he was doing the wall of death around the tank, so I can forgive him for being worn out! ;D

Must....get......more.......margies......

[LisaLQ]

Just wanted to say that I met this "little fella" (ahem, not!) today, and he's an absolute doll. Am totally smitten, and very jealous.

[sezzy5889]

grrr, everytime i see the word 'sherman' i think of American Pie, ROFL

[natrat84]

Haha - The sherminator, rofl.
We saw american pie band camp the other day - Very funny.

[sezzy5889]

lol

[Deleted]

awwww hes a wuv wuv ;D