MATING!!!!!!!!!!

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!! ;D
Two of my 21 grove sails are mating! thi morning i checked on them and it looked like a piece of poo but ten i noticed it was a tube im not sure what you call them love darts or anythin but it was a tube that was creamy i just dont know the name cause they are stuck togeher.

[glittersniffer]

I saw my iredalei and fulica mating, On the roof baby on beasts shell. She injured her eye.. What a clumsy mating!

[pandora]

That's great! My helix aspersas are always mating and yet I haven't had any eggs

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How long does it take tem to lay eggs i cant find any eggs Now my baby pomatias are intrested i think!

[crossless]

I have come one simple theory about this mating till eggs laying time period. Example if A. fulica can lay every month eggs if snail mates regularly so it could take month to transform sperm to eggs. Helix pomatia and smaller snails can lay eggs every two weeks if snail mate regularly, if I'm now correct so then time to transform sperm to eggs could be 2weeks. And so on, depending how often is snails possible to lay some eggs based on species information that people can get hands on.

Hope you get big clutch of eggs soon and loads of healthy babies.

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Thanks

[coyote]

My garlic snails have been mating and laying eggs lately too. My bachelor aspersa Remington has been laying eggs as well, but they become food for the garlic snails.

[Hannah-Bird]

I recently found my first clutch of eggs from my grove snails, and this evening when I looked in at them TA-DA!! They were on the side of the tank biting at each other and had *cough-cough* extra appendages. I checked in on them frequently over the next hour and a half, and after a while they had slowed down considerably and moved on to the main event. I've now seen what was probably the weirdest sight of my life: the actual (Not sure what verb to use. Ejection? Stabbing? Release?) of the love dart. Absolutely bizarre. Some time after that, they became interlocked with one another and remained so at least until I left the room. It was a pretty cool experience to witness all that, and I managed to get some halfway decent footage and pics on my cell phone.

[coyote]

Wow, that's cool. I hope you post pics!

[Hannah-Bird]

I will probably have to post pics of that variety the next time I catch them in the act; the camera on my phone is really low quality, so I'd rather post pics taken with a regular camera. I should be able to get some regular pictures of Lenore, Wendell, and the eggs soon. Oh, but on that note, I FOUND the love dart in the tank this morning.

[coyote]

You can read more about dart shooting here, if you're interested:
biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/chase/

[Hannah-Bird]

So, according to my older sister, I'm some sort of fertility idol.

My niece, Lily, has one of those butterfly garden kits for which you order painted lady caterpillars in the mail, and today I was at their house to sit for my nephew, Owen. We looked in at the butterflies in their net (it's been to cold at night to release them) and a pair of them were mating. I blamed it on it being spring and all, but she's convinced LOL.

Thanks, coyote! I'll have to give that site a look.