Care of baby snails

[snailybailey]

Hi,
I'm fairly new on here and looking for some advice. My Fulicas have had babies - 12 of them have hatched (they are getting quite old and not many of their eggs hatch any more).
I have separated the baby snails into a small tank and provided them with cuttle and food, keeping the tank warm and damp.
Is there anything else I should be doing? They keep burrowing and I'm worried they wont be able to find their food as they are so tiny!
What is the best food to give them which they can eat easily? How can I give them the best start?
Also, I have homes for a few of them - how old/big should they be before they go? I will be keeping the others - how big do they need to be before they can go back in with the adults in the big tank?

Sorry for all the questions, just want to make sure I'm doing everything right! xx

[Deleted]

Well i dont know much about Gals but i think your doing great providing them with food and warmth damp. I think its best to put their food where they normally go or where it is easy to get to. About the age- I think when they get a bit bigger like when you can fully see the shell and that the shell is not to weak. Or maby if you dont want to handle the shell when they start to have markings on their shell that are big but not all the markings (when they are starting to get markings and are quite big to handle maby about the shell be 3cm) sorry i dont know how big they atually grow so maby 3cm is teenager for fulicha

[coyote]

It sounds like you are doing the right things for the hatchlings. Very young snails seem to burrow a lot more than older ones, for some reason, but they always seem to find the food okay.

If you want, you could try putting small amounts of food in different places around the tank, so that no matter where a baby snail happens to be, there will be a bit of food not too far away.

[Bumblebee]

When it comes to rehoming them I think that you could wait untill they are some centimeters big, like snailgirl23 adviced, it might be easier for the new owners to care for a snail that they actually can see and possibly handle than a tiny hatchling.

And the rest that you keep, before placing them back into the adults tank, they should be only a few centimeters smaller than the adults, just to avoid possible injuries, especially on the babies mantles in case an adult decides to sleep on its shell while its sitting on the roof of the tank or so.
Just make sure to also check more regulary for eggs that you dispose if the babies goes back into the same tank as their parents, to avoid inbreeding

[crossless]

Hmmh.. I don't really agree with that "keep separate till there's only 2cm size difference" If you have example fulica and it's about 10cm size, baby should grow about a year before putting with parrents. And snails are all unique, if someone don't grow bigger than 5cm, would you keep it in separate tank always, just because they won't reach 1cm to 2cm smaller than biggest/other snails? Doesn't make sence to me..

I usually put babies with adult when they are about 3,5cm at least and shell is thicken and they can safely be with adults.. Some my snails don't even grow any more and those three smallst are something like 6cm to 7cm and I would not keep them in separate tank when I get so big that all 9snails can fit there my biggest it's at the moment like 10,5cm. Some my 1year old snails haven't stopped grown yet so maybe some of those over takes that biggest snail in the house tittle.