The Snail Thread !

[stephenie191]

Originally Posted by Brat

I'm off to raid Jess's Artbox as we speak LMAO!

yeah somone mention'd it on the snail forum, as long as theirs no, strong ink ad water based me thinks

[GlitterBug]

Erm, I wouldnt suggest painting the snails shells. It cn poison them if they slime all over each other. If you are keeping them seperate then I suppose yeah. I used to paint the tip of my garden snails to tell them apart but a few died.

You could get away with alittle bit of varnish on the tops but not all the shell.

Up to you I suppose = 3

[stephenie191]

My new snails ! Two iredalei



hopfully get babies from them

[kelly]

there lovely

[Miranda]

Originally Posted by stephenie191

My new snails ! Two iredalei



hopfully get babies from them

I love iredalei's! there live birth puts me off though, how big are they? Iradelei are usually smaller.

I had two achatinafulica, but the eldest died recently of preamber i believe, but the other is going strong!

[stephenie191]

Originally Posted by kelly

there lovely

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Miranda

I love iredalei's! there live birth puts me off though, how big are they? Iradelei are usually smaller.

I had two achatinafulica, but the eldest died recently of preamber i believe, but the other is going strong!

Around, 2 1/2 inchs at most.

Why does the live birth but you off?

[Miranda]

Originally Posted by stephenie191

Thanks!



Around, 2 1/2 inchs at most.

Why does the live birth but you off?

I tihnk one of the commonest problem is the breeding of GALS's. With eggs it can be contrlled, freezing etc. but wiht live birth you can't get rid of tehm. Any one here have any really pink margies? or any reticulata? am i right in thinking hte largest ever GALS was a reticulata?

[stephenie191]

Originally Posted by Miranda

I tihnk one of the commonest problem is the breeding of GALS's. With eggs it can be contrlled, freezing etc. but wiht live birth you can't get rid of tehm. Any one here have any really pink margies? or any reticulata? am i right in thinking hte largest ever GALS was a reticulata?

I will sell all the babies, between the 3 forums i go on and ebay, rep shops etc

i have reti's - not sure on largest ever but tiger snails are the biggest

[Miranda]

Originally Posted by stephenie191

I will sell all the babies, between the 3 forums i go on and ebay, rep shops etc

i have reti's - not sure on largest ever but tiger snails are the biggest

Was it an immaculata? I honestly cant remember! who knows?
I was planing on giving eggs away to peeps with monitors who eat them, soon as i had posted the add, they stopped laying! as if they knew something was up! Btw what are nutritional food for GALS, I stopped feeding lettuce.

[stephenie191]

Originally Posted by Miranda

Was it an immaculata? I honestly cant remember! who knows?
I was planing on giving eggs away to peeps with monitors who eat them, soon as i had posted the add, they stopped laying! as if they knew something was up! Btw what are nutritional food for GALS, I stopped feeding lettuce.

They can have
cucumber
carrot
sweet potatoe is a fave
apple
strawberry

Anything - some won't touch certain things. - don't feed anything from the onion family, (leeks, etc)

tehy also love porridge, made with water, or weetabix mashed with water

hope this helps ! lol