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Post by yoruni on May 28, 2016 17:55:47 GMT
Please join in Etna is still up there even if she is AFK And I am most of the time
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Post by yoruni on May 25, 2016 15:27:54 GMT
Oh my gosh I am in love, congratulations Yes, canibalism is pretty popular, they catch easy calcium and proteins, that's why I take away hatched kids from incubator to separate "kinder-garden box"
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Post by yoruni on May 25, 2016 11:25:46 GMT
Amazing snails! I believe I recognize your snails Muffin and Brownie from an Instagram post I commented on earlier... Would you happen to be the user Mucustrail? EDIT: After looking at your signature bit, you are most definitely the user... I am not the most observant person haha Haha and me yours <3 I am glad you all like my family Soon I hope it will expand a bit and I will for sure keep you all updated
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Post by yoruni on May 24, 2016 20:45:53 GMT
Thank you all :3 I hope to get my family bigger, we have planed some more kids to join us in the future At last 4 species.
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Post by yoruni on May 24, 2016 18:07:39 GMT
I have growing up family at home and also taking care of snail in our Biology Club. Here you can see my loved home pets <3 Chrupek and Speed (L. fulica norm) Speed's kids (some of them) L. fulica rodatzi (no named yet) L. reticulata (also awaiting for names) Ptyś and Lili (L. reticulata albino) Pasio, Albi (H. aspersa maxima leucistic) and Fuks (H. Aspersa maxima norm) Also got some wild guys including two temporary residents (rescue on recovery) Muffin and Brownie (Arianta arbustorum) Caramel and Mocca (Arianta arbustorum) Mist and Star (Succinea putris) Two rescue H. pomatia: Alex and Max
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Post by yoruni on May 18, 2016 18:52:34 GMT
I like your fulica FB page, great photos! Thank you so much
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Post by yoruni on May 17, 2016 16:12:14 GMT
Edible snails are normally farmed by commercial breeders, and are NOT collected from the wild for the food market, due to quantity issues and the danger of parasitic contamination. So those snails will never be anyone's dinner. Except other animals in the wild, who are not so kind as to freeze them beforehand and will eat them alive. Ever see an opossum eat a snail? Not. Pleasant. And also, not cruel. It's simply the natural order of the ecosystem, which humans are a part of. Personally, I have no problem with people eating snails (or any animal, really) so long as they are killed humanely. That being said, I cannot abide animal mistreatment and prefer snails as pets, thank you very much However, if you are interested in preserving the species, you may be causing more harm than good. Helix pomatia are protected all across Europe and the UK, which means collecting them from the wild is illegal. Furthermore, they are poorer breeders than most species, and may or may not always lay eggs in captivity. So, if you're concerned about the population's survival, please know you could be decimating it irreperably by removing them from their natural habitat and selling them to the pet market. Instead, please consider relocating them to an alternate location if they are truly being threatened by urbanization. As I wrote down some posts ago, here in Poland they have no full time protection, they can be collected for 30 day year at may and only if they are bigger then 3cm. When that period end you have to give them back to the wild (even if you are helping injured snail to fully recovery - law never predicted that they would be people like us who wants to help it ) or if you will have special authorization for farm breeding you can keep them for future breeding snails for food (wild genes are better and farm lines grow strongest when it's added in)
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Post by yoruni on May 17, 2016 16:02:27 GMT
Here girl is repairing snail shell, it's water snail but it can work on land snail also. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1jICKMoilQHe cannot use that hole and he may die if it won't be fixed. After that super snail bandage, keep him in small box (so he wont move too much and make more injuries to shell) and feed him well and give a lot of sepia. Do not fill box with soil - better is to keep him on paper towel. This is how far I know. Maybe someone will have better tips but I hope I helped a bit and snail will be fine. Just take a good care of him. Good Luck Thanks for this info.! I just found a young land snail on the sidewalk this morning and it had a crack/small hole in the new portion of shell it has recently grown. I'm wondering if it should be repaired, or just let it repair on it's own, since it is not a spot on the body of the snail? It feels like very new shell, so I'm hoping it will heal! I hoping it will repair >;0 But I think maybe it's better to take him home, in nature they may not have so easy to repair it all by himself, mostly if there is hole and you can see body - it may be dangerous for him. Maybe you will be able to do something like that girl did, but you should be careful if it was new shell it easy break :<
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Post by yoruni on May 16, 2016 4:30:18 GMT
I was using tabele created by snail owners here in Poland - there is an opinion here that's is better to do not feed it to snails because it have high lvl of oxalates, but I saw also other tabel where I found that it's not that high to complete removing it from menu. But I would be more careful with snail regenerating its shell and just for his safe avoid it till that process ends. Balancing on what have or not bad lvl of oxalates is pretty hard when it comes to snails :< Yes, I was reading it yesterday a bit, but I not all yet. I need to find time for proper reading
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Post by yoruni on May 15, 2016 14:12:37 GMT
Love it <3
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Post by yoruni on May 15, 2016 11:18:37 GMT
No one is ever there :<
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Post by yoruni on May 15, 2016 10:59:51 GMT
Hmm.... Well I never was great at biochem but won't lettuce and cabbage actually interfere with the absorption of calcium? Maybe as long shell regens is better to keep it on apple, zucchini and some fish-flakes (once per 4-5 days)?
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Post by yoruni on May 14, 2016 10:44:48 GMT
I believe that small procent of it wont be harmful, at last everything eatable got salt in it so of it's nit higher then 5% then I think it's ok. No, you don't need to boil it or wash it. Just put in box, you can also wipe it a bit on food Well, looks like a nice poop it goes from hole under shell but when they sit still wiyh their head near shell it looks a bit like that, also snails like to keep it under their foot and leave it behind after they move
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Post by yoruni on May 13, 2016 10:11:02 GMT
I came here to check on snail progress and I see you are doing well I do agree with Etena, egg shells sadly are not the best but cuttlefish is great, you can put it in box or even crush some part of it and turn in dust to put on food. I am glad to see new shell is growing
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Post by yoruni on May 11, 2016 15:58:34 GMT
Here girl is repairing snail shell, it's water snail but it can work on land snail also. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1jICKMoilQHe cannot use that hole and he may die if it won't be fixed. After that super snail bandage, keep him in small box (so he wont move too much and make more injuries to shell) and feed him well and give a lot of sepia. Do not fill box with soil - better is to keep him on paper towel. This is how far I know. Maybe someone will have better tips but I hope I helped a bit and snail will be fine. Just take a good care of him. Good Luck
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Post by yoruni on May 10, 2016 4:25:42 GMT
Yes, I noticed that population nearby dropped, like 20 years ago I could find a lot of them in my backyard and last summer where I was visiting my father I saw just a few of them. Yes, you can still find Arianta arbustorum here Liguus fasciatus, they are so pretty Well, The easiest snail to buy is H. Aspera Maxima or Muller - because they are most common in snail farms, so you can order them in kilos... Dead or alive. Some people also sells some AA, l. fulica sp. and some other - we have Polish group @fb where e exchange information, photos and get to know if we have something for sell atm.
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Post by yoruni on May 9, 2016 17:45:34 GMT
Sadly in my country - Poland, keeping Helix Pomatia as a pet is illegal but there is a lot of snail farms breeding them for food export, so that is a bit confusing for me and I need to research more information about it because I wanted to have them as a pets too. We are top in Helix Pomatia export to France but because people who were selling them collected wild ones in some part of my country they started to be really rare so government put them in Red List of Threatened Species. They are under protection but not full-time protection. It's allowed to collect them from 20 April to 31 May if their shell is over 30 mm. I really love them, as kid I was observing them in my garden and as far I notice there was much easiest to find back then
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Post by yoruni on May 9, 2016 17:02:58 GMT
Hello everyone, I am Angela and I am from Poland At March I started my adventure as snail owner with adopting two lissachatina fulica from University Biology Club - Malacology section (I am also member of it. I already had suprise eggs for Ester from one of them - well I adopted already "pregnant" snail, but I have decided to keep and rise his kids for myself and Uni Beside my two l. fulica I also have three Helix Aspersa including two leucistics and soon I will reactive l. fulica rodatzi and l. reticula normal and albino what I am really exited about. I always liked to observe wild snail and cared to do not crash them or move them to keep them save from crashing but now I also seem them from other perspective. I never expected that owning a snail can make me so happy (as person who grew up on cattery I never though that non furry animal is so enjoyable) or I could learn about their behavior what is not just simply eat, sleep and reproduce. I really like to learn more about and also make friends (I hope so) with other snail lovers. Thank you Admins for acceptance into forum and again hello everyone If you have any question I would be glad to answer them here. See you all around.
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