How and Why did you fall for Snails?

[jayne]

If it's been done before I apologise but I'm curious .

In my case I fell for KathyM's Sherman on another forum and thought it'd be nice to have a couple in a spare fish tank in my fish room.

Then I discovered this site and it's been downhill all the way ;D

Two months later most of my tanks are housing snails and I'm spending hours reading about them and observing them and I'm finding them fascinating.

My fish breeding projects are now snail breeding projects and I think it's safe to say I've been well and truly bitten by the bug

So,how was it for you?

[eric2]

I walked into my local reptile shop and saw huge margies and tigers(didnt know what they were back then) and i have been hooked since

[jayne]

How long ago was that Eric?

I can't imagine seeing tigers/margies in a reptile shop, everyone round here only seems to sell fulica.

[eric2]

3 year ago lol this petshop has also sold panthera, baby margies large ovum and tigers in the past 2 years

[teresa]

your lucky eric i can only get fulica round here too

[gabi]

Last year my daughter found some adult Iredalei´s in a petshop in we thought, that are huge snails and bought some.... ;D...the rest is just like usually...if started once, you cannot stop....

Kind regards,

Gabi

[Val]

I bought a couple of apple snails and was on Daz's site Snails2die4 when Emma showed us some pics of her GALS!!! rest is history as they say ;D

Val

[Deleted]

my ma brought one home once

[Ruth]

I went to collect some phasmids from a guy who had loads of tiny, tiny baby GALS in a tank and he gave me 4 for free. I'd never really looked at them before but after sitting and watching my new pets, especially the way they emerge from their shells and 'look around', i completely fell in love with them. When reading about them I came across Annettes site, then cybersnail and by the time i found this site there was no tuning back.

[teresa]

when my daughter was about 5 we went to a reptile store and they had 2 great big snails in a tank there they were huge and she fell in love with them and wanted some i did not get any till a few months later as she keep on at me every time we went there but it kind of turned and i was bitten by the bug and have not looked back since my daughter is now 20 i must addmit i did not know there were so many types available untill last year when i came across the forum i kept looking and i had to join and now i would never look back i love them the way they come out and look around they are so graceful and very relaxing to sit and watch

[snailatic]

I had to look after some fulica as part of my job, when I left I abducted one:oD, it had babies, I enjoyed looking after them and started looking on here for info, discoverd all the species and three tanks later the rest is history.

[mandywith11]

my sisters fulica had bubbies, so i had some...........then wanted more and more
thanks alot bea lol

[Snail Lover.]

I wasn't aloud a turtle so just for the sake of another pet i said i really want one, so my mum and dad said ok... and now im addicted to them so much i have 2 and getting another soon ( i know this threads old but ahh well)

[ade2009]

After owning a multitude of other crawlies, millipedes, scorpions and lizards/snakes etc, we finally discovered the humble snail which turned into humble snails and so on, best pets weve ever had,
Ade

[herpmadboi]

I had a few when i was very young, and my next door neighbours had babbies and kept them seceratley for 4months, untill one escaped:rolleyes: