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Juvinile Lissachatina fulicas
5 hours
Snails3 weeksMixed
£3
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Adv. ID
eBEwx3TtS
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Adv. Location
Weybridge, Surrey
Advert Type
For sale
Age
3 weeks, 4 days
Breed
Snails
Sex
Mixed
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I bought a colony of 10 baby snails at the Bristol invert show. As one can imagine, I don't have the space for all of them, so I am selling 7 or 8 of them to someone else who can provide them with more room!
I don't know when they were hatched, so their birthday is the date of the show instead. No one is smaller than 3cm or bigger than 4.5cm
Most of these snails are Jades. I have 2 wild/normal coloured ones and I believe an albino or a jadatzi.
Message me for what snail(s) you'd like, I might even discount if you buy several! Collection only at Weybridge, as I fear they may die from postage!
Top tips to keep a snail:
Temps wise, room temperature is perfectly okay. 20-25°c is perfect for them, and they like a humidity of 60-70%. The warmer their home is the more active they will be and the faster they'll grow.
They have a mostly vegetable based diet, things like courgette/zucchini, sweet potato, and carrots are the best for them! They can even eat most leaves and flower petals (rose, hibiscus, and marigold are very good for them!). Try to stay away from things like cabbage and lettuce as too much can cause bloat, and they really like cucumber, but feed in moderation because it's mostly water and has barely any nutritional benefit. For substrate, a mix of top soil and Coco coir is what I use so that it doesn't get all clumpy and muddy thanks to their mucus and it makes aeration (important to keep harmful anaerobic bacteria away) easier.
Calcium must be offered 24/7 in the form of cuttlebone or even crushed shells (egg, oyster, etc. chicken/bird grit can be used!)
Once they mature, to avoid getting unwanted snail babies, make sure to thoroughly check their home (in substrate or vegetation if you have any!) for eggs whenever you can. These guys are likely to mature in a few months, so you don't need to worry about that right now. Mature, larger snails don't typically burrow when they aren't laying so if your big guy is a little underground it's likely they're laying eggs.
Finally, protein can be offered to them in the form of soaked algae wafers, soaked fish food, crushed and soaked dried mealworms, dried shrimp, and even the occasional pinkie mouse. Some veggies like spinach can be supplied too. You can give them fruits, but they are very sugary so treat them like sweets and make sure there are no seeds and pips in them.
Stay away from salty foods like fish, citrus fruit like lemons and pinapples, any grains, and anything in the onion/garlic family. These are 100% lethal to snails!
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