melly
Achatina achatina
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Post by melly on Sept 28, 2005 15:25:53 GMT
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Post by section8angel on Sept 28, 2005 15:50:27 GMT
Awwwwwwwwww that last shot is soooooooooooo cute!! It's posing!! lol
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apple
Archachatina degneri
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Post by apple on Sept 28, 2005 15:51:22 GMT
Very nice!  |
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gabi
Achatina tincta
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Post by gabi on Sept 28, 2005 16:58:48 GMT
Melly, your Rodatzi´s are beautiful!
My Rodatzi is eating her shell. She looks terrible. I have no clue why she is doing that. She is 8 months old, but active and eating and resting and there are no mites. Not on her and not in the tank. But she refuses to any kind of calcium (no sepia, no powder, nothing to get in her) and I think that is the reason why she eats herself.
Weird snail...
Gabi
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apple
Archachatina degneri
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Post by apple on Sept 28, 2005 17:20:06 GMT
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Post by Paul on Sept 28, 2005 17:43:29 GMT
One of my ventricosa which used to demolish cuttlefish recently stopped eating it and ate some of its own shell. I can't get it to repair it, it eats and grows normally and now it is bulging out of the shell. I am feeding it exclusively mixed food with 30%+ ground cuttlefish and it still won't grow shell. Very strange. There are no mites or anything like that. Either it refuses to eat calcium and grow shell or it can't for some reason. It was in a tank with some Achatina that got that retraction illness. I am wondering if the symptoms for Archachatina are zero shell growth.
I am just about to separate it and feed it really calcium-rich things, very little normal food. I need to see if eating calcium, produces shell growth or if something is wrong internally that stops shell growth no matter how much calcium is ingested. The fact that it won't eat cuttlefish anymore suggests we can "force" shell growth by making it eat calcium. But so far, my mixes have done nothing; no shell repair, no new growth.
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apple
Archachatina degneri
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Post by apple on Sept 28, 2005 17:55:14 GMT
In a experience made between Pacific islands with soils poor in calcium and rich in calcium, the growth of Achatina fulica ( introduced there) shell was the same, but the thickness was different: larger in the soils that have abundance in calcium ( so more resistant to shock and falls) and thinner on the islands that have lack of this element.  |
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Post by Paul on Sept 28, 2005 18:07:20 GMT
So that suggests that the problem is an internal illness of some description rather than lack of calcium ingested. I'll keep trying anyway, coz I can't see any other option. I just hope it can be sorted out.
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apple
Archachatina degneri
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Post by apple on Sept 28, 2005 18:14:42 GMT
Maybe an internal illness related to the lack of metabolic efficience. But I´m not sure. Good luck on that Paul. Then tell us what happened. |
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Stacey
Achatina achatina
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Post by Stacey on Sept 28, 2005 20:43:20 GMT
They are beautiful snails melly |
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melly
Achatina achatina
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Post by melly on Sept 29, 2005 7:45:28 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Thanks All [/glow] next I will put the photos also of the others my snails |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2005 13:20:58 GMT
very nice melly  ive got one with very bad shell growth. the edge is so delicate it always breaks off. and theres this big purple stripe across the shell |
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