Hmmm Blondes!!!

[pheonixx]

Hi everyone hope you are all well and had a good christmas ...I have not been around for a while I have had some health issues , so I have just seen the postings on the blondies and sorry if the subject has been done to death but since we own 2 in fact they are the only land snails we have at the moment I thought I would tell you the conditions we keep our two in..who are doing well , but in my opinion are the most lazy laid back snails I have ever known LOL.
First of all we met up with Paul at Bolton so these snails have never been in the royal mail.
We got 12 off Paul 2 we kept and 10 went on ebay for charity...I think val had a couple off us but we have not heard how the rest are fairing.
we keep our 2 in a small plastic tank which is kept on top of a large fish tank...no other heating added though the tank lights keep it pretty warm and I have my heating on rarely due to me not being able to stand much heat...they are in peat which we microwave to get rid of nastys and a lump of spagnum moss which is not green anymore...I only spray and bath them once a week with bottled water and I add liquid calcium to the spray...we have noticed that these little boogers like tiny amounts of chopped up or mashed food if we put big lumps of food in they just oil off bottoms sticking out under the moss and sleep for a few days and I leave them..I get a piece of cucumber and make tiny criss cross cuts in it then they will eat it..I dont think we do anything different than others and in my humble opinion I think this is the nature of these snails..we keep tons of different types of aquatic snails and each of them have not only individual trates but also species trates...if that makes sense...I have not seen this blistering but I will look out for it now I know about it.
I will get Daz to take some pics of them so we can see if they are all growing at the same rate..except the runts but we cant do anything about them..oohh yes I have noticed over the last week or so they have been more active..nothing has changed and I am looking at them now last night they scoffed all night..I know because I did not sleep well and kept getting up..one of them has gone back under the moss and the other was so full he slid over the food pot and just crashed out on top of the peat with his foot out but asleep..weird or what LOL...Linda

[sezzy5889]

hehe your dimi's sound like little characters, yes do post some pics so we can see if they compare much :-)

[LisaLQ]

When did you get them, and how big are they?

[Val]

I had one dimi from you Linda, in fact he is my second largest dimi. Lisa, we all got ours sometime last May.

Val

[LisaLQ]

Ahh right, thanks Val. Was just thinking if they were born around the same time, we could compare sizes to see if it is just a slow growing variety.

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pheonixx said:

First of all we met up with Paul at Bolton so these snails have never been in the royal mail.

see, the people who have dimi's that haven't been posted are doing fine....

[sezzy5889]

hmmm, mine are doing ok

[LisaLQ]

Just noticed the part about spraying them with liquid calcium in the water, is this part of the weekly routine, or the normal every day spray? Where do you get it from and what dose do you use?

I might just put my two back in the little tank and treat them seperately to the other snails in the big one.

[Val]

lotsofsnails said:

pheonixx said:

First of all we met up with Paul at Bolton so these snails have never been in the royal mail.

see, the people who have dimi's that haven't been posted are doing fine....

Sorry, have to disagree with that, all my 3 dimis were posted to me and they are doing absolutely fine!!!! I believe if they are babies and haven't had a chance to become accustomed to someone elses tank food, etc., then the posting and change of environment will do no harm whatsoever, this has been my experience anyway. Also contrary to pheonixx my dimis are out every night, so I think that temperature and humidity also has a lot to do with whether or not they are very active. I am now leaving their heat mat on all the time and have found that this makes quite a difference to their appetite.

Val

[pheonixx]

Pics coming soon...but Daz's lovely flat screen monitor has died on him and the software is on his comp so it will be a week or so....yes I thought you had one off us Val and some off Paul...so they are all siblings...and yes I thought it was around that time we met up with Paul..I will measure them when they wake up...sometime tonight I hope LOL..Lisa we took ours out of the 3 ft tank when the fulcia died they looked a little lost in there so we put them in a small tank and they seem to be doing better...liquid calcium you can buy it at the pet shop but it's a big bottle and it's pricey we sell it on our site when Daz gets some bottles with droppers...however if it's to be added to a water spray then you dont need a dropper so if you like I can get Daz to do you a bottle or you can have a look on e bay some of the calcium on there is homemade so watch what you are buying...we only deal with kents which we think is the best...we started using the calcium when we had a discussion with Paul about substances being absorbed through the skin..we use it with our aquatic snails so we figured why not the dry pets..hope this helps we dont have a good track record with keeping land snails and these two are the longest that we have kept them for, all our fulcias have died..Linda

[section8angel]

Val, you said about the shells on yours being bad, I wouldn't call that absolutely fine.
It could be the substrate, it could be because they are posted or it could be something else altogether.

With mine though, I don't think temp is anything to do with their activity, but I do think it's to do with their growth. Mine are out nearly all the time when it's 22c and lower, but they're still growing slowly.

Lisa, there is a product for putting in water that contains calcium. I don't know whether it could be used as a cheaper alternative?

P.S if this sounded weird/bitchy whatever, I've had Guinness so apologies. Rofl.

[LisaLQ]

MmMmMmmm Guinness. Sorry. What were we talking about again? ;D