Need advice on snail eggs

[daniel]

My 2 achatina reticulatas just laid a clutch of eggs about 20 eggs their shell is 12 cm long and are about a year old both tank temp is about 22 celcius should i crush the eggs or something else 

[littlesnaily]

Are you planning on keeping the eggs? If not, then you can freeze them overnight to kill them.

[daniel]

i was thinking of keeping one snail and selling the rest but i asked on a snail discord server and was told that the clutch is too small and there is a less than 1% chance of them not being runts

[daniel]

found more eggs about 40

[pasi9]

Like littlesnaily said, most people freeze the eggs overnight to stop them hatching, and then throw them away in order to get rid of them.

You could separate a couple of the eggs gently and keep those for hatching, if you wanted to keep one. I wouldn't let all of them hatch, you might not be able to sell them all and then you're stuck with them.

[snaileyhammy]

Hi! I know there very difficult to hatch but, everything deserves a chance at life. Althrough there mating season I have kept my eggs and tried to hatch them. A lot of them did not hatch but that’s ok. You can always feed them back to the parents, laying the eggs is a very energy taking process and the eggs have lots of calcium in them. If you decide to hatch some then that is awesome! Try and warm there cage up quiet a bit bc the eggs will not hatch until the climate is right. I have learned this mostly from my slug eggs that recently hatched. I wish you luck! And happy holidays!

[cloudprism]

Has anyone seen if their snail gets sad when they noticed their eggs are gone? I feel like one of my snails started acting standoffish once it realized.

Also, do parent snails care about their baby snails? I am hatching some in a different container and was curious if it’s parents would recognize them.

I’m guessing no, and the snails are pretty clueless… but just curious about others observations.