Limicolaria flammea eggs

[gabi]

My just one year old Limicolarias have produced in the last days 3 batches of eggs. The first one, I have let in the tank, where it has been laid (bottom, under cocohumus). The other batches where laid in the flower-pot (with plant in - regularly watered) and under a cork-bark (not safe - as they are sliming there around a lot of the time). Those both I removed in my incubator.
I keep the adult ones at around 28 degree, very humid, various food, planted viv, wet substrate.

Any experience with limicolaria eggs? Hatching time? Care of the babies? Anything having to be prepared for?

Thanks already to Kevin, who helped me already a bit by e-mail.

Kind regards,

Gabi

[sezzy5889]

I successfully hatched and raised 2 batches of eggs

I removed mine from the tank and hatched them on capillary matting, kept humid at 26ºC and sprayed once a day, they hatched about 2 weeks after being laid, then i put them into my propagator which at the time was between 26 - 29ºC, with fair amount of ventilation and a bit humid, they ate lettuce, cucumber, courgette and lots and lots of cuttlebone from hatching and grew very well, resulting in striped and plain shelled ones to my surprise as both parents were dark striped!

[gabi]

Thanks for the answer! So you got "albinotic-shelled-ones". That is cute. Both must have had the genetics in their bodies!

Nearly cannot await having my ones hatching and I am hoping they are hatching at all, as the snailies are fairly young and those are their first batches.

Kind regards,

Gabi

[sezzy5889]

they are absolubtly tiny when they hatch, they are like Cepaea hatchlings and so delicate!
I didn't think that mine would survive but they suprised me and approx 36 out of 44 survived

[gabi]

Guess, they are then same size, like my lignus-babies have been. This time for limi-babies, chances would be better, because now I am finally rid off those damnit mites. So let´s hope that there is something hatching.

[sezzy5889]

I raised mine on normal organic compost,

Heres some piccies of what to expect :-)

The parents are the two snails on the right!



and these are their babies growing up






















Enjoy!