Post by starcrazy19 on Jan 21, 2014 14:56:59 GMT
Hi everyone, would love it if I could get some IDs on some GALS from you guys. I brought 7 snails home from a local animal shelter yesterday, 6 are achatinas (I think) and the last a margie. I think. I've only had retics, tigers and regular fulicas before so I only have everyone elses pictures of their snails on the forum to go on!
Anyway the 6 together were in a little tank and seemed very active, the margie was in a bone-dry tank with a dead tankmate and was retracted so far you could barely see there was a snail in there. Neither tank had any heat but the room they were in was very warm. I basically just took him and stuck him in with the others figuring he wouldn't likely make it but he had a better chance with me than at the shelter, they don't know much about snails and mostly rehome reptiles.
Since then the gang of 6 have not stopped eating and moving around, they seem very healthy. I ran the margie under warm water as soon as we got home and he tried to reach his little head out, so I fed him some fishfood on a little spoon and he gobbled up LOADS, then reached out to rest his head and neck on my finger as I held him under the warm water for a while. This morning he has eaten some sweet potato and isn't half as retracted as before
He must have been very dehydrated. He's been snailing around today and moved into a little tank of his own, I really thought he was a lost cause when I saw him and his poor dead friend but I'm quite hopeful now.
Here are some pictures if I can manage it:
I think the first four are 2 rodatzis, and either 2 jades or a jade and a 'jadatzi', some kind of crossbreed anyway. The white-fleshed one with the paler shell has such awful shell growth it's hard to tell what her natural shell colour would be, it's almost all scarred texture. One of the yellow-shelled ones has the tip of his shell broken off and compacted with soil, I don't really want to try and clean it out incase I make it worse... if he seems healthy, I should probably leave it alone?
The last two look like albopictas from what I've seen before, I know there is a lot of variation between fulicas though and don't have much experience of all the different skin and shell colours they can have. These two have a kind of pigmentation in the wrinkles of their skin, pale dorsal stripes and pink tips to their shells, though, which seems a bit odd for fulica. Their foot is so flat and wide aswell, it's weird.
Here is the margie (sorry for the long post)
His shell is very worn but when wet, it is slightly pink at the tip. The shelter guys swore blind these two (him and the dead one) had laid viable eggs, and his head bump is very pronounced like in a mature snail, but he's so small... but then I don't know much about margies at all. Is pink columella and pink shell tip suturalis? I've never had to ID archachatina anything before!
Any confirmations or corrections would be so helpful, thanks everyone!
Anyway the 6 together were in a little tank and seemed very active, the margie was in a bone-dry tank with a dead tankmate and was retracted so far you could barely see there was a snail in there. Neither tank had any heat but the room they were in was very warm. I basically just took him and stuck him in with the others figuring he wouldn't likely make it but he had a better chance with me than at the shelter, they don't know much about snails and mostly rehome reptiles.
Since then the gang of 6 have not stopped eating and moving around, they seem very healthy. I ran the margie under warm water as soon as we got home and he tried to reach his little head out, so I fed him some fishfood on a little spoon and he gobbled up LOADS, then reached out to rest his head and neck on my finger as I held him under the warm water for a while. This morning he has eaten some sweet potato and isn't half as retracted as before
He must have been very dehydrated. He's been snailing around today and moved into a little tank of his own, I really thought he was a lost cause when I saw him and his poor dead friend but I'm quite hopeful now.Here are some pictures if I can manage it:
I think the first four are 2 rodatzis, and either 2 jades or a jade and a 'jadatzi', some kind of crossbreed anyway. The white-fleshed one with the paler shell has such awful shell growth it's hard to tell what her natural shell colour would be, it's almost all scarred texture. One of the yellow-shelled ones has the tip of his shell broken off and compacted with soil, I don't really want to try and clean it out incase I make it worse... if he seems healthy, I should probably leave it alone?
The last two look like albopictas from what I've seen before, I know there is a lot of variation between fulicas though and don't have much experience of all the different skin and shell colours they can have. These two have a kind of pigmentation in the wrinkles of their skin, pale dorsal stripes and pink tips to their shells, though, which seems a bit odd for fulica. Their foot is so flat and wide aswell, it's weird.
Here is the margie (sorry for the long post)
His shell is very worn but when wet, it is slightly pink at the tip. The shelter guys swore blind these two (him and the dead one) had laid viable eggs, and his head bump is very pronounced like in a mature snail, but he's so small... but then I don't know much about margies at all. Is pink columella and pink shell tip suturalis? I've never had to ID archachatina anything before!
Any confirmations or corrections would be so helpful, thanks everyone!
