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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 30, 2007 20:56:40 GMT
I don't no what to say ::)but hello from me i am dave ;Di am 52 years old and i have two snails what have got names bill and ben i do have some more with no names Hi Dave I am also Dave, but I am only 45 years old. I also have 2 snails. Welcome!
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 18, 2007 16:02:15 GMT
Hi Dave, welcome to the nuthouse...*ahem*...I mean gang ;D Your snails sound fab - 5" fulicas eh, what's your secret? Looking forward to pics (if poss)! Ps. I started the same way - got them for the kids, now they're lucky if they can wrestle past their mum for them ;D I've put some pics up on my ISP's web pages. See Pictures section of forum.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 16, 2007 21:55:21 GMT
Gah! 4" not 5"! I mistyped! Still, probably not bad for 9 months.
Only 10 babies left now. 2 have gone to new homes and the others seem to have vanished into the substrate. No doubt they'll surface as they get bigger. Either that or they've been eaten??
I'll have to get an imageshack account for pix, unless there's somewhere on this forum I can post them.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 13, 2007 10:32:17 GMT
Oh no I've signed up with another forum! Hi there, I'm from the UK. East Midlands to be specific. Long Eaton (near Nottingham) to be even more specific. Last summer we stayed with friends in Essex, who had a massive African Land Snail called Brian. (looking back at the photos I took, I think he was a Tiger, but I've just heard he's now died. Andrew, our 9yr old son (who had recently started keeping garden snails in a tank) was fascinated at this huge creature. When we got back, after much pestering, we bought 2 snails on eBay. That's how it all started. Andrew named them Namibia & Botswana. Their shells are about 5" long now, and they're about 9 months old now, and I'm fairly certain they're fulicas. We've just let a clutch of eggs hatch and now have another tank with 15 small babies in! We've got a few takers, and there's a couple of pet shops in Nottingham that will probably take them...but if you're in the Nottingham area and want a free snail or two...? Our son still likes the snails, but I'm the one who cleans them out, feeds them, lets them crawl on his hand, and takes all the photos (and let's face it, I'm the one who's just signed on to the forum!). I'm hooked! ;D Now if anyone out there has a couple of Tiger snails going begging...
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Post by lorisarvendu on Jun 2, 2007 17:16:35 GMT
When we were cleaning out the snails today, we got some seriously chewy movies of them eating. For some gastropod gastronomic grossery , go to www.spacewarp.co.uk. The link is "Snail Movies" at the top of The Snails Page. Enjoy. ;D
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 20, 2007 7:01:35 GMT
Three...hundred...and...fifty...three!? Lordy lordy. How many members does the forum have? Will you have any shortage of willing takers? Eddie Grant. Excellent name!
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 3, 2007 22:11:52 GMT
its just so cool to know they are going to be happy for life ;D karen I don't know a lot about snails TBH, but the colouring is interesting. They're so...well...grey!
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 1, 2007 21:03:17 GMT
Oh gawd, I cannot say the exact. Put it this way...I use 2 cucmbers, 4 sweet potatos, 3 aubergines, 1 lettuce, 3 - 4 apples, 3 bananas, 1 mango, 3 courgettes, 2 avocados, 4 slices of bread for all my 200+ snails ( + 300 lignus babies). (All these fruits and veg are in average size) Some of them like rectis, immacs & megas eat a lot more than others, so I give them more. Lignus only eat a few slices of sweet potatos and a bit of courgettes and cucumbers, and I only feed them once a week. It is very hard to say how much each adult fulica will eat. I used to feed them every day, and then every other day and now just twice a day, I just work around and note down how much they eat, it's like experiment and the first few times, I put more and then gradually reduce to just about the right amount. PS Sorry to hijack your thread, Dave. I get my coat now. That's ok. You've made my mouth water. I'm going to go and eat now!
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 1, 2007 9:16:34 GMT
Is that a WC fulica, Felix? There has been much discussion about CB fulicas being smaller, possibly due to inbreeding. Brian was bred in captivity, but the parents may have been wild. They have a big aquarium tank in the wildlife centre, so of course they keep getting eggs. They will give them away to anyone who asks.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 30, 2007 22:42:18 GMT
What a lovely colour. What did you feed him on? Honey, butter and ginger biscuits? ;D
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 30, 2007 21:27:54 GMT
yep, looks like Achatina fulica to me also. I thought that from the colouring, except he was so big. Larger than my two fulicas.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 30, 2007 21:00:28 GMT
Hi all Sorry to start 2 threads on the same page, but this should be short. Can anyone identify a snail from 5 pictures? Unfortunately there are no more, as the snail has since ceased to be. I have put them on my el-cheapo website - www.spacewarp.co.ukOn the Snails page, under the link Big Brian on the left-hand side. cheers Dave
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 13, 2007 23:20:13 GMT
Day 41, 6 weeks old. 1.5cm average length. 9 new pics on www.spacewarp.co.ukThe way the word is getting around I probably won't have any left to take down the pet shop!
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Post by lorisarvendu on May 2, 2007 19:16:48 GMT
Hi Dave, lovely pics. Your two big fulicas are beautiful. I have 4 but their shells are more of a brown colour with fewer stripes. I'm new to this forum too and I go to Uni in Nottingham. In term time I live in Beeston, although I only come to Long Eaton to do my shopping (Asda). Best of luck with the babies, mine haven't laid any eggs yet! Sue Hi Sue Trent or Nottingham? I work at Trent. Plus I do my shopping at Asda! Small world. How old are your fulicas then? Mine are coming up to a year, but have only laid 2 clutches so far. I suspect they are siblings, which might not be good news for their offspring. Maybe fulica-swopping would be a good plan for deepening the genetic pool!
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 30, 2007 22:39:08 GMT
aww..cute little babies and great to keep a record ;D Thankyou! Day 28 up now. 4 weeks old and averaging 10mm in length. They're more robust now and easier to pick up, even with my big thick man-fingers.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 23, 2007 22:28:09 GMT
Hi my OH has just bought two from EBay also, we are just awaiting their arrival. He has the tank set up !! Great pictures, congrats on your babies Ta v much. Some more pics up. Day 21. Just woke up and on the lettuce!
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 19, 2007 9:15:11 GMT
i love the pictures i was thinking that could be useful for the pet snails site as its only last week i was trying to find out info about the color of baby fulicas Well they're not particularly copyright, so feel free to nick them if you want.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 18, 2007 23:07:59 GMT
Great photo's..make sure you keep taking them as they grow. Will do. I'm very new to this. Have I got the species right? I'm looking at other pictures of fulicas on this site, and ours don't look the same. I'll put some pics of the big ones on the website.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Apr 18, 2007 16:00:17 GMT
We have 2 fulicas (at least I assume they are, I got them off eBay last September). A couple of months ago we decided to keep a clutch of eggs and see what came out. They hatched on the 2nd of April. Here is a very hastily put-together web site with some pictures. www.spacewarp.co.ukAny comments are welcome! Dave
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Post by lorisarvendu on Oct 9, 2007 12:41:15 GMT
Does anyone have any good tips for maximising the effect of heat mats on snail tanks?
Putting them on the side of the tank is preferable to underneath, since the heat from an underside mat would tend to be retained by the substrate, and you'd end up with snails being cooked as they burrowed down.
However, in a vertical position heat is lost by convection upwards, and radiation outwards (away from the tank) leaving precious little getting in through the (well insulating) perspex wall.
Does anyone have any little tips and tricks to ensure most of the heat goes in the tank? Silver foil? Polystyrene tile? Liquid Nitrogen heat exchange system?
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Post by lorisarvendu on Sept 27, 2007 13:46:06 GMT
Hi all
I used to keep my fulicas in sphagnum peat moss bedding, but I've now moved to trying out Coir. I've noticed that they seem to stay buried a lot more now. A friend who had one of our fulica babies has just told me the same. His snail stays buried, even to the extent of coming out to grab hold of a piece of lettuce and drag it over to the hole!
I've heard that sphagnum moss is a bit acid and that some snails might be adverse to it. Is it possible that that's why they now bury themselves more than they used to, because the bedding is more comfortable? The temperature is fine by the way.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Sept 13, 2007 21:17:00 GMT
Thanks everyone. I have ordered a mat & thermostat online from the Cornish Crispa Co!
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Post by lorisarvendu on Sept 13, 2007 16:00:51 GMT
Hi Dave, my heat mat is made by Habistat, you can get them on line and I am quite sure they have their own website too. I keep my heat mat on the outside of the tank, and my tank is quite large, it definately gives sufficient heat too. As for thermometer, I have one stuck on the front of my tank (a basic thermal one) - gives a rough idea of what the temp inside is. What snails will you be keeping? xxx Hi there 2 fulicas (who we've had since last year), and recent acquistion 1 tiger.
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Post by lorisarvendu on Sept 13, 2007 9:06:05 GMT
Can anyone recommend a type of thermometer for use in a perspex snail tank? Since I guess it has to be inside the tank, one that won't mind being covered in slime would help. And with no sharp edges.
Also I'd like to get my hands on a decent type of heat mat. Can you get ones with integral thermostats, that are able to be stuck on the side of the tank (don't want to cook the beasties!)?
cheers
Dave
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Post by lorisarvendu on Jul 5, 2007 10:37:59 GMT
It is not silly. I have witnessed this a few times. Some species of slug do rasp snails. Maybe it is their way of obtaining some extra nutrients? mickysnail We have noticed that our tortoise sometimes has slugs on board. Perhaps they're getting a bit of calcium from his shell?
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