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Post by Fuzzy Pickles on Aug 15, 2006 20:18:46 GMT
Recently. The snails at the pet shop layed eggs. My friend who works there took 10 home andoffered to give 2 to me. I bought a large plastic tank and layered it with about a inch and a half of peat substrate. I put them on a leaf of lettuce and spray them and the substrate when it's looking dry. They are about the size of a pea at the moment and the sheels are yellow (Starting to turn brown) Am I doing everything right? How long will it tke for them to grow?  |
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Post by Moracai on Aug 15, 2006 21:12:51 GMT
Make sure you offer them a cuttle bone to nibble on so their shells will get nice and strong. They will eat a wide variety of vegatables, my babies seem to like sweet potato and cucumber, sliced very thinly. I assume they are fulica? They will grow quite quickly, you will be surprised at how quick they grow.  |
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Post by Dom on Aug 15, 2006 21:15:04 GMT
Cool. Thanks. But i don't think they've come out the shells. yet. Unless they did it while i was sleeping...
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Post by Moracai on Aug 15, 2006 21:17:00 GMT
You will find they are most active at night, so you may not see too much of them sometimes. When you get up you will find they have moved to another place in the tank and little holes in the lettuce. |
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Post by Dom on Aug 15, 2006 21:33:53 GMT
One of them moved once. but i noticed no holes in the lettuce.
Just changed the lettuce to cucumber.
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Post by Moracai on Aug 16, 2006 19:24:11 GMT
How old are they? I find my babies didn't eat for about 2 weeks after they hatched. I guess they were still full from eating their egg shells.
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Post by Dom on Aug 17, 2006 20:05:11 GMT
They're about a week and a bit old now. One of them disappears at night and I can't find him now! Will he be okay?
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Post by Moracai on Aug 17, 2006 20:18:42 GMT
he could have burrowed under the subtrate. My fulica babies did that. They will come back up |
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Post by Val on Aug 17, 2006 21:33:37 GMT
You might find it easier with a little less substrate say about half an inch deep or put them on some damp capillary matting with a little pile of moss in the corner, makes finding/checking on tiny babies so much easier.  Val |
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Post by Dom on Aug 18, 2006 0:58:34 GMT
Yeah. One of them is on top of some cuttlebone and doesn't move. I don't know where the other one went. I'll look for him tommorow
The shells are turning brown now! ^___^
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Post by rubb3rchicken on Aug 19, 2006 20:23:38 GMT
Tehe, that guy in the pet shop its........its me! Hi guys i am the friend that fuzzypickles mentioned. So hi Dom and hi to everyone else. I also brought 2 eggs home but one was a failure and the other one hatched this morning!  How long should it take them to get about 1cm big? |
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Post by Val on Aug 19, 2006 20:59:38 GMT
Welcome to the forum rubb3rchicken!! can I call you ken for short ;D
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Post by rubb3rchicken on Aug 19, 2006 21:07:42 GMT
NO! My name is pete. >_> i hate 'ken'. So how long do you think it will take them then?
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Post by Val on Aug 19, 2006 21:18:10 GMT
Possibly a few weeks, hard to predict a snails growth rate, depends how much the snails eat.
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Post by rubb3rchicken on Aug 19, 2006 21:42:40 GMT
Well there about 2 weeks old now. By the way i meant for there shells to become about 1cm. So....?
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How long should it take them to get about 1cm big?