Baby Grove Snails Available Soon in Southeast Michigan!

[rea87]

I missed a clutch of cepaea nemoralis eggs (found them same day they started hatching!) so I'll have around 60 baby snails available soon! A few have been reserved, but many are still available. They hatched 6.22

I can hold on to them as long as I have space, but I can't keep these babies forever I'll probably keep a couple, though! I'm hoping to start getting them to their homes mid-end of September, once they're a little more durable. Right now, I'd consider them probably too young for travel, especially in this heat. 

I will not ship them, at least not until they're older and the weather is consistently 60s or so. Even then, obviously this offer is only available for people in Michigan, southeast preffered. I live near Rochester Hills.

They're very small and they've started getting their stripes! I'm not sure which of mine laid these eggs, but all of my grove snails are cream/yellow with brown stripes. Some have much thicker stripes than others, but I can't tell yet what kind of stripe patterns the babies will have.

Also if anyone in Michigan has grove snails in different colors (orange/pink, yellow without stripes, olive...), I might be really interested in a trade or something!!

[pearlsnpoms]

I'm in Michigan and may be interested. I have some Hissers and isopods, so I have some experience with inverts. And I love my aquatic snails. What is the care for these guys like vs slugs? Not sure which I want yet

[rea87]

Aug 21, 2020 17:34:25 GMT pearlsnpoms said:

I'm in Michigan and may be interested. I have some Hissers and isopods, so I have some experience with inverts. And I love my aquatic snails. What is the care for these guys like vs slugs? Not sure which I want yet

I've never kept slugs, so I'm not quite sure on that (but I believe their care is similar)
I find them very easy, I'm keeping them in a container with high humidity, food every few days, spraying them every day or every other day, and adults get their container egg checked every week. Right now most of my adults are sleeping because of the heat, so it's even easier than that lol 

slugs are basically homeless snails as far as I've seen. Snails have a slightly harder time escaping places because they can't squish through as easily because of their shell 

Also, snails get along pretty well with most isopods as long as the isopods have their protein requirements met (if not, they can nibble...)
My snails aren't with isopods yet (I have cubaris murina isopods for my snails) just because they're so small, but I have a smaller type of snail in with some armadillidium vulgare (it appeared in their container lol) and it's doing just fine


for food, my groves really like sweet corn, carrots, moringa leaves (I have a small indoor moringa tree, so I just pull leaves off when I'm lazy with feeding), sweet potato, summer squash....also chia sprouts and dandelion leaves

I give them a snail protein mix once to twice a week, and cuttlebone is always available


These babies are definitely too small for homes yet, I think they're sleeping more than they really should because of the heat (like the adults) so I'm not quite sure yet when they'll be able to go to homes

I do know a couple spots for catching some wild c.nemoralis near where I live, so that's an option too if you're comfy with wildies
the babies are bred in my home from wild caught snails, took them out before they ever interacted with the adults, and the wildies have been on deworming mix and the babies have had some too so it's pretty low risk in that area

[georgia61073222]

Hello, I know I'm very late to ask but I was wondering if you still had any healthy babies left? I know many of them turn out to be runts. I will be getting 6 subadult Grove snails Friday and im worried they are not what I want, for example, I believe they will all be white with brown stripes. We will see. For now I'm just wondering if you have any left, just in case?

[pearlsnpoms]

Hello! Do happen to have extra snails available? I will be going to Rochester this Saturday and I'd love to $$ some!

[rea87]

I do not at the moment but I will definitely post again if/when I do!

[norassnails]

This is suuuper late, but I was wondering if anyone on this thread/anyone in Michigan has grove snails that they could ship? rea, I see you mentioned spots where you can catch wild snails, would there be any chance you could let me know where those are or catch some for me and ship them? (I'm in the west michigan area) I hope I'm not being annoying, haha, just wanted to try all the options