Snail eggs officially laid <3

Andee

Andee

Chameleon Enthusiast
It's official I have had many questionable glances and hopes. But after switching the snails over to their new 10 gallon tonight, a clutch of 20-30 beautiful pearly white tapioca pearl sized eggs were before me and I nearly screamed and forgot what to do lol. I was scrambling so hard XD. Omg. I carefully have prepared the snail egg "incubation" in otherwise just a seperate hatching chamber that's smaller and easier to control. I rinsed them very lightly of almost all dirt except a couple granules and scooped up any eggs that got knocked loose when moving them. And then covered them and nestled them in fresh new eco earth. So EXCITED 8D
 
It's definitely nice to find XD My two Halloween hisser females are also looking pretty uncomfortable so I am guessing for sure one of my females will be popping any week now. I gotta love spring <3
 
Baby snails are here! received_2053819304658836.jpeg
 
I'd say that was a sure sign the spring is in the air. Congrats it won't be long now. Mine just laid eggs a few days ago. This is the second "clutch" from my second generation snails. I think I will move mine out to incubate as well. I think I lost some to the older snails or maybe escapes from my larger container.
 
I agree spring is here, especially since I have my first hisser nymphs. And my dubia colony just have 5 females minimum give birth in a 24 hour span. Usually when the colonies start going crazy it's a sign it's gonna warm up. Have you ever had success with an external heat source like a low wattage ceramic heat emitter with the snails? @JacksJill
 
All my bug populations are exploding, probably a coincidence though, it's still dropping close to the teen's here regularly. Snails seem indestructible though, haven't had any die through some very cold temps.
 
Would you guys recommend that I start a small snail colony? I'm thinking about it, but I may need some basic pros and cons if anybody has time.
 
It's easy if you are in a state where they are an invasive species. In colder states like yours will have a harder time finding them. There was a person on ebay from Greece(?) selling them. Snails in the mail a site sponsor has them but they have to be selling to restaurants in your state and they send them on to you.
They eat regular gut load but need calcium supplementation, substrate and moisture. They breed freely. Some chameleons like them a lot, Jackson's, I don't know about panthers. They should be fed off small (dime sized max) while the shell is still delicate.
 
JacksJill said:
It's easy if you are in a state where they are an invasive species. In colder states like yours will have a harder time finding them. There was a person on ebay from Greece(?) selling them. Snails in the mail a site sponsor has them but they have to be selling to restaurants in your state and they send them on to you.
They eat regular gut load but need calcium supplementation, substrate and moisture. They breed freely. Some chameleons like them a lot, Jackson's, I don't know about panthers. They should be fed off small (dime sized max) while the shell is still delicate.
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Thank you for the information! Just curious, but why do you say I live in a cold state?
 
I've only fed off one snail so far as I'm still waiting for some eggs, but my panther curiously followed it for a few minutes and then happily ate one. It was a fairly big one too.
 
I just am going to sell these as feeders. Until they really start during this spring I will be charging a higher price likely and only small amounts will be sold. But these are crucial in certain diets for skink species and snake species that eat only mollusks.

Edit: higher price than I'd prefer XD
 
I eventually want to be able to offer them for like 8 cents a piece depending on if that's a feasible price for the rate they grow to the size they can be fed off at etc. These are my first hatched babies. I feed my guys high quality organic greens from a local farmers market, weeds I grow for my tortoise, mulbwrry leaves, some veggies, occasionally strawberry tops etc, and then a calcium source and they eat their moss which was not my intention but can't complain lol.
 
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