Post by kedreeva on Jan 3, 2024 0:28:13 GMT
I just got these guys a couple of weeks ago, after wanting them for a long time. I originally temp housed them for a few days in an empty terrarium set up for a different species that didn't work out (I was still waiting on delayed shipments for part of the lucorum substrate, the snails weren't supposed to arrive first), and they *hated* that enclosure, spent that weekend just closed into their shells, didn't want to eat, nothing.
I put them into the enclosure actually made up for them, worried that they would hate it, too, and that I'd just gotten in over my head, but they've been all over the place! Eating a bunch, sleeping in the hides, following each other around. My understanding was that their breeding season was oct-early december, or at least their laying season (it's been unclear in the reading I've done), so I have to say I was VERY surprised to see this just two weeks after settling them in their permanent home!
When I walked in the room I was just going to grab a photo of them being in each other's faces, and then I realized what was happening when the genital organ started to appear, so I started a video. The last photo is a couple of hours later when I checked in on them.
I have no idea if they'll actually produce eggs or anything, but it was still cool to see the behavior in person!
They succeeded at making babies!