SOLD: Helix aspersa, Eobania vermiculata and more

[Timm Adam]

Hello everyone,

I have some Helix aspersa and some Eobania vermiculata and one unidentified species of snail from Southern France and another unidentified species from Spain for sale. Please look at the shop-page at www.schulvivarium.de for the photos of them.

Regards

Timm

[ness]

Thank you for posting.
Do you have any basic care information on these please? Are they all kept the same way as Helix aspersa, or do their temperature requirements vary?

Also the Rollassel Armadillidium maculatum are interesting and look like they could live in the same tank as snails. Can you please inform us if that is true?

Thank you.

[Timm Adam]

Hello,

all the snails were found in very similar habitats and because of that they will not need any different care. They are not fussy and eat cucumber and lettuce and I tend to give them some wild plants like dandelion. I mix some lime into the substrate and that is basically it. I haven´t bred them (apart from Helix aspersa) but I think the unidentified species are of the genera Helicella or Cernuella which shouldn´t be to hard to breed. If you can provide them with a cool winter time. Personally I don´t have yet the space with the right mediterranean conditions but will have that hopefully in a few months time. It should be a shack or something were it doesn´t get as cold as it gets here in winter. Helix aspersa is very tolerant and I think they just need some drier periods and will adapt to a relative steady high temperature. In general they should all be kept rather dry through the summer months as they live in a place were it is very hot and only a little rain during July and August. I don´t know if the smaller species will really need the colder periods but to ensure breeding I would at least at first try it. They all do their dryness-resting trick and ttach themself to plants during the hottest parts of the day. All in all I think if you give them (Eobania, Helicella, Cernuella) the same conditions as for Helix aspersa they will breed.

The Isopods Armadillidium maculatum should be a nice addition to any terrarium with millipedes, snails and slugs, tarantulas, well I think they can go with most of terraria animals from a moist environment really but the most perfect partners are millipedes and snails. Armadillidum maculatum are in my terrarium with the Jungle Nymphs Heteropteryx dilatata and they breed very well in there. Also in the tank with my "Seismotheraphosa" as I call her (11+ cm bodylength, 130 grams weight) where they are good "cleaners" and sweep away all the traces of the dramatic murder cases that happen there every now and then. Some terraria people use a "tropical" species of isopods for this but they are very tiny and just unpigmented. I prefer these nice little fellas. I have been breeding them now since I think spring of 2008 and they don´t seem to be going down, rather better. Of course I don´t know if that will continue for ever but as I very often have isopoda in my tanks from here out of the garden and they never stop I suspect A. maculatum is similar.

Kind regards

Timm

[ness]

Thankyou very much for the information Timm. As some of those species are unfamiliar to many of us in the UK it will help us to set upt the right sonditions for them.
I am tempted to get some of your armedillidum woodlice. I'll have to have a think about it.
Thanks again

[Timm Adam]

Hello Ness,

don´t think too much about it.........the postage will be more expensive than the woodlice. Maybe you have something to swop? I can offer you the "petsnails-community" discount and send you some over if you refund the postage. Have you got a paypal account?

The Armadillidium maculatum won´t cause you any trouble; they just want some decaying plant matter ( and I trust that you have plenty of that in your snail tanks.....) and happy they are.

Best regards

Timm

[Timm Adam]

Hello again,

the snails are still here. There will be a terraria fair next sunday and the saturday after that where I will take them if noone is interested here.

I think the smaller ones must be Helicella or Cernuella.

Just write me an e-mail when you are interested in them; I think we can always work something out. Postage to the UK will be around 20,- Euro.

Kind regards

Timm

[Schnäggli]

Hi Timm! Would you be interested in a swap? I have young Helix aspersa (an unusual morph with yellow body, the parents are WC, the younglings were bred in captivity by me) as well as young Helix aspersa maxima.

You could have several younglings for each adult snail. How does that sound to you? Pictures of the snails (including their parents) are available.

[Timm Adam]

Sorry Schnäggli!

I wasn´t around here just when you came along! I have sent all of them to someone else, all the ones I had left. It´s a shame but too late now.

Normally I don´t breed Helix or snails from temperate regions; I am more into the giants and the unusual ones from tropical regions. So I am kind of a "bad" swapping partner in that respect. But every now and then I still have some species from the Mediterranean because like the last two hlidays we went to Croatia and Southern France and I couldn´t resist to brings some snails back.

And even more funny: I found specimen of a Helicella/Cernuella species and Helix aspersa virtually close to our door here within the last three days. So I didn´t really have to bring them back, they are already here...........

This offer can be closed now.

Kind regards and sorry for me being so absent!

Timm