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| serena_08 |
Posted - 01/11/2012 : 20:52:17
Buying one for my nephew, as its his 5th birthday in a couple of weeks! Ive got a big tub, some peat free compost (as suggested on a care sheet online), a misting bottle, a water bowl, will get some foodage for it to.
Is there anything I need that you're not really told about? Or anything I need to know?
I have 2 coming so I will have one and he the other, like an incentive to be like Aunty :)
I know he's young, but he loves creepy crawlies and his mother is -well lets just not go there! I know he will enjoy it and look after it, so it's not all to spite the mother! LOL. |
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| lotabob |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 01:47:05
I use my 2 snails as waste disposal units. They eat absolutely anything. I give them a whole lettuce which usually does them a week, I also give them carrot peel, apple, egg shells, about 4 cuttle bones a month, they love dry dog food, I soak it in water and a spoon of calcium powder and they never leave a scrap. I don't heat mine, they do slow down over winter, eat a little less but unless your house is seriously cold they would be fine, they will hibernate if it gets too cold for them but most homes will be warm enough to not kill them. I have mine in a 150 Litre tub and just use B&Q top soil for substrate and make it just deeper than they are tall as they do burrow now and again. Oh also get yourself some worms and woodlice in there or you'll be overrun with snail poop in about 2 days. |
| lupi lou |
Posted - 02/11/2012 : 17:27:18
just the cuttle will be fine, thats all we give the ones at work, its amazing how fast they munch through them, that said we have more than two! |
| serena_08 |
Posted - 02/11/2012 : 14:12:20
Really? See I didn't know that! And it hasn't come up in any of the research either, luckily I have a cuttlefish fish bone thing :) what about other sources of calcium, as well as/ instead? |
| lupi lou |
Posted - 02/11/2012 : 13:37:40
dont forget a cuttle fish as a calcium source |
| serena_08 |
Posted - 01/11/2012 : 21:53:15
Thanks, they'll be kept nice and warm then! And I read about the hermaphrodite thing, and how they still need to mate, luckily they won't be kept together! That's a lot of offspring! |
| Charles |
Posted - 01/11/2012 : 21:47:22
They can be sensative to the cold. We have a heat mat on the ones at school. As they are hamaphrodites, if you keep them together they will lay 100s of eggs. (we tend to freeze the eggs as soon as they are laid.) |
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