echo
Achatina fulica
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Post by echo on Sept 1, 2009 10:02:50 GMT
I know a lot of you are going to think nothing haha... Anyhoo, I just came back from a weekend away to find my partner has rescued some fully grown snails. I think they are fulica. There were 4 of them aged 16-18 months, very large, kept in a fish tank that can't have been more that 40L with nothing but a bit of soil in the bottom. They rarely had access to cuttlefish or any other sources of calcium so their shells aren't looking that great. We have no idea how often or what they were fed and the previous owner said they usually had mites. Apparently they have never ever laid eggs, would the reasons I've already mentioned explain this? Since we got them a couple of days ago they have had 2 good baths (no signs of mites since then thankfully) and I have transfered them to a huge plastic storage crate with some logs etc, lined the place with cuttle fish and chucked in enough food to feed the 5,000. I have also put Ted in with them as he was looking ever so lonely by himself (He is only 7months but doesn't actually look that much smaller than the newbies). So is it likely that now their housing has improved a little that they will start breeding? I don't want to keep any of the babies, I'm just curious
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Rachel
Archachatina puylaerti
They see me snailin'
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Post by Rachel on Sept 1, 2009 10:45:12 GMT
They probally will start giving eggs anytime now, so a daily check through all the soil is in order. It might be worthwhile getting som hypoasis miles from defenders, often in cases like this the snails have lots of mites inside them. Also I'd advise giving them some pumpkin seeds to help kill of any worms etc they might have.
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echo
Achatina fulica
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Post by echo on Sept 1, 2009 10:55:21 GMT
Thanks for the reply I guess I associate them breeding with being happy and healthy so I'm worried them not breeding means that they aren't. Just popped out this morning and got them pumpkin seeds. Do I have to crush them or will they eat the whole?
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Dusk
Achatina tincta
In ur viv stealin ur snailets
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Post by Dusk on Sept 1, 2009 12:40:50 GMT
They can eat them whole
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Post by rebeccaraff on Jan 4, 2010 14:27:56 GMT
Can anyone tell me a way of stopping my 2 giant african landsnails breeding? they are only 3 months at the moment but i was windering does less soil stop them mating and if so how much soil should i put in their tank to stop them breeding? or does this method not work? any ideas? thanks
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Dusk
Achatina tincta
In ur viv stealin ur snailets
Posts: 665
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Post by Dusk on Jan 4, 2010 15:20:51 GMT
Short answer is that you can't stop healthy snails from breeding if they want to. Be vigilent with egg checks (they can be very sneaky about hiding them) or resign yourself to rehoming offspring If they're fulica they can be tricky to rehome as pets but people will buy them as live food for other pets.
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Post by rebeccaraff on Jan 4, 2010 17:59:05 GMT
Ok well thanks anyway
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Deleted
Deleted Member
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2010 17:32:14 GMT
Hiya i might let my pet snail (i found in gardeh) free, And might get a tiger snail but found out their hard to keep as they need loads of warmth and im only aloud to keep them in my room and my rooms cold but i might get a radiator, do you have any tips on how to house tiger snails or feed them? also if you have any tiger snails ill be happy to buy them if there a bit cheap (i cant spend money as i have to go on holiday so im saving)
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Post by coyote on Jan 29, 2010 21:43:01 GMT
Tiger snails are difficult to keep. They are probably not good for someone new to keeping snails.
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danikat
Achatina achatina
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Post by danikat on Jan 29, 2010 22:06:17 GMT
They also don't tend to be cheap. Because they're harder to breed and popular they tend to be more expensive than most snails.
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Post by crossless on Jan 29, 2010 23:22:01 GMT
I think first snails should be something that don't need too much heating or really even humidity. So there's some room for error, so snails won't die to first mistake and if you don't even know how to care of them and don't know their needs. Many starters here have lost their appetite to snails keeping 'cos they don't understand if snail get sick usually it will be lost in near future or then when you are lucky snail will be always healthy or sometimes it's not keeper fault if snails die really young etc.
Then if you don't know even how to use heat mat or lamps and too many new things on fire at same time.. well how then you know how to keep up good humidity and good temperature and when comes summer you need to play with heating so you would not fry your snails. So safest to get some really easy species first. I have my first 9snails I would like to get more but I think I stick with these and keep these as "practice ones" before thinking tiger or other snails.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 8:48:53 GMT
Just to let you know im not new to keeping snails i first started keeing them at the age of 7 and know loas im kepping my snail because i want to find out what her breed is and whn i grow up m gonna work in a flower / plant shop.
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Post by Greta on Mar 13, 2011 23:15:37 GMT
I've got a question when I was 9 I used to keep snails I kept about 8 helix aspersa and I loved them so much all 8 where fully grown that I found in my garden I had another five baby ones the baby ones I think they bred I'm not sure cause one day wen I went to them I found these White tiny dots that looked like eggs does anyone know wat they were I don't have my snails anymore cause my brother found them and let them go now I'm 12 and today I missed my little slimy friends so much I went outside to look for them and found 4 helix aspersas they are not fully grown yet but they are pretty big probably 2-3cm long and i found a lot of grove snails so I'm waiting for them to breed
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Post by coyote on Mar 14, 2011 22:26:11 GMT
It depends on the size of the dots. Really tiny ones were probably not snail eggs.
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