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Post by JupiDoodles on May 20, 2017 15:56:47 GMT
Hello, I'm new here and I'm looking to identify a snail I found earlier today. i live in the UK and I've never seen this type of snail before. They're quite small about 1 cm in diameter and they are yellow-brown in shell colour. Their body is a dark blue-grey. Any help on finding the species of this snail will be greatly appreciated as with the information I can give hem the best care. Thanks, jupidoodles.
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Post by morningcoffee on May 20, 2017 16:47:13 GMT
Hello, I'm new here and I'm looking to identify a snail I found earlier today. i live in the UK and I've never seen this type of snail before. They're quite small about 1 cm in diameter and they are yellow-brown in shell colour. Their body is a dark blue-grey. Any help on finding the species of this snail will be greatly appreciated as with the information I can give hem the best care. Thanks, jupidoodles. Maybe a Cepaea hortensis or Cepaea nemoralis but very difficult to ID a snail without a picture. |
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Post by jroberts on May 20, 2017 18:58:50 GMT
Hello, I'm new here and I'm looking to identify a snail I found earlier today. i live in the UK and I've never seen this type of snail before. They're quite small about 1 cm in diameter and they are yellow-brown in shell colour. Their body is a dark blue-grey. Any help on finding the species of this snail will be greatly appreciated as with the information I can give hem the best care. Thanks, jupidoodles. Sounds like you may have found an Oxychilus alliarius "garlic snail" www.google.co.uk/search?q=garlic+snail&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMgMqbkv_TAhUpIsAKHQgFAIkQ_AUICSgB&biw=962&bih=601#tbm=isch&q=oxychilus+alliariusThis species is more common in the UK than people realise, just have to look in the right places (usually in cracks of decaying/rotten logs and under fallen rotting foliage in the woods etc) |
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Post by JupiDoodles on May 29, 2017 10:04:12 GMT
i did some research and it would make sense in the snail being a garlic snail/glass snail as they are carnivorous and they ate one of the helix aspersa hatchling i raised that was in the tank with them. thanks for the help i greatly appreciate it
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Post by jroberts on May 29, 2017 12:02:41 GMT
i did some research and it would make sense in the snail being a garlic snail/glass snail as they are carnivorous and they ate one of the helix aspersa hatchling i raised that was in the tank with them. thanks for the help i greatly appreciate it Oh no, poor baby :/ sorry you had to find out that way. |
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