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Kate

Kate

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Just received my snails for Popeye. There are loads of them in a small plastic box. Can anyone tell me what to keep them in and on. I have food for them. Thanks.:)
 
I believe they eat the whole lot. Put one in Popeyes viv and he got quite fired up and walked away.:D
 
When I have snails, I just keep them in a plain old tub/bin and feed them veggies/fruits and sometimes some dry gutload in a shallow dish. They also like/need to eat calcium supplement, so I put some of the chameleon's supplements in a small bottle cap or shallow dish. When I put paper towels down, they just ate them. I used a tub with a loose fitting lid (but was tight enough to keep them in) so that there was a small amount of airflow to keep anything from molding, but not enough air to dry it out.

If you want to breed them, place some smaller tubs/pots that are filled with a few inches of moist soil in them. Make sure you leave an inch or two of rim or else the snails will get soil everywhere (and then it gets all gross and stuck because of all the slime.) If these snails are wild ones, be sure to remove the eggs and hatch them in a different enclosure to try to prevent any parasite transfer. I just re-buried the eggs in new soil and left them at room temp. They hatched by themselves.
 
pssh said:
When I have snails, I just keep them in a plain old tub/bin and feed them veggies/fruits and sometimes some dry gutload in a shallow dish. They also like/need to eat calcium supplement, so I put some of the chameleon's supplements in a small bottle cap or shallow dish. When I put paper towels down, they just ate them. I used a tub with a loose fitting lid (but was tight enough to keep them in) so that there was a small amount of airflow to keep anything from molding, but not enough air to dry it out.

If you want to breed them, place some smaller tubs/pots that are filled with a few inches of moist soil in them. Make sure you leave an inch or two of rim or else the snails will get soil everywhere (and then it gets all gross and stuck because of all the slime.) If these snails are wild ones, be sure to remove the eggs and hatch them in a different enclosure to try to prevent any parasite transfer. I just re-buried the eggs in new soil and left them at room temp. They hatched by themselves.
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Thanks a lot. They are farmed edible snails. Put one in viv yesterday and Popeye flaired up and walked away:D:D:D
 
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