Snail :)

[Dani33]

Here's my apple snail. I know it's kind of weird, but I love this guy. I bought him when he was the size of a nickel. I pretty much got him to keep my tank clean.

Well, it took him no time to eat all of the live plants in my tank. So I got plastic ones and continued to feed him greens. In 8 months, he's gotten huge and has become my fav. critter in my tank and he only cost me a couple of dollars :). He lets me hand feed him. I was doing some maintainence and decided to let him out for a second for pics.

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3313Apple_Snail_3.jpg

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/503/3313Apple_Snail_1.jpg

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/503/3313Apple_Snail_2.jpg

Thanks for looking!

[Bartman]

Thats the collest pet ever lol...what tank did he clean for you? What type of enclosure/habitat would it need..

[Dani33]

Here's a link for them. http://www.applesnail.net/
He's in a fresh water tank with tropical fish. Unfortunately, the only thing he cleaned up were my live plants - lol. I don't usually handle him or anything, but I was cleaning and I took him out for a minute to take the pics. You can buy them at any pet store, people buy them as feeders for monitors as well. Thanks!

Edit: Oh, I think that I'd like to get a Giant African land snail. Will anyone be selling them at the show?

[Scales Zoo]

Our applesnail laid 200 eggs, they should hatch within the week.

They are very cool critters - yours looks like it may be albino or something. I saw a few leucistic applesnails last week, and only the foot is white.

Ryan

[Yness]

that is crazy...I didn't know that snails got that big:o

[AshleyL]

I used to have a couple in my aquarium...i LOVED them and can't wait to get more (once my tank has fish in it again :rolleyes:)

[Dani33]

Thanks guys :) I would love to see a leucistic. He may be albino, his eyes are red.

Ryan, congrats! Do you breed them for your monitors or as pets?

Yness, these guys can get up to 5 ", you can actually see in the second picture where his growth started with me. If there is a ridge in the shell, it means that's where growth has stopped. This usually happens because of being in transit to pet stores and what not.

I think that Giant African Land Snails are the biggest, getting up to 8". I would really like to get one. Apparently, they don't need a mate to lay fertile eggs. Can these be fed to monitors like the apple snails? I'm curious because they lay like 100 eggs at a time and I doubt that I could find homes for them all. I could maybe sell them as feeders as well.

[anders_240sx]

Some species of giant land snail lay 100 eggs ..some only 20 ... it varies ...I am currently working with an unknown species ... a few offspring have been sent to the Toronto Zoo last June for observation ... and will soon be sent to Ottawa for ID... Mine lay between 30 -40 eggs ...and hatch in approx. 5-7 days ... Some take months to hatch ... so it varies ... I always have some available .... so Pm OR EMAIL me ... I live in Oshawa. Good luck and nice snail

[J3000]

Dani33
I have two of those my self they live with my african claw frogs

[Bartman]

feeders for savannahs eh? How much are those...how many dollers lol

[Scales Zoo]

Here is a link to an add for applesnails
http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=41724

Keep in mind, I was having some fun with the classified add. I never thought any one would appreciate breeding for temperment, until I saw the pictures at the begginning of this post.

I hope to sell many of the applesnails, but I may save some as breeders, and use the resultant offspring as a treat for the monitors.

We had Giant African Land snails - but unfortunately they dried out, and did not survive. They are also technically illegal without a CFIA permit - something we found out after we bought them. They also come in Leucistic.

Ryan

[Dani33]

LOL, your add is cute :) Birth certificates eh - lol! I just like this guy. I think that they make cool pets too. Would the giants be safe to feed to an adult sav?

[JeffT]

lol thats cool, my friend used to breed applesnails a ton and they were pretty cool pets.

[Scales Zoo]

We had about 100 more eggs!!!! I'm gonna be ritch!!!!!

With any purchase of 10 or more applesnails, I might include a T-shirt that says "I (heart) snails!" - it's gonna catch on, I can feel it!!!!

Oh, and you can feed Giant African Land snails to Savanna monitors - but it is cruel to the snail. Have you ever heard a snail scream? They have feelings too you know.

Ryan

[dank7oo]

:) thaey are too cool man. My mom freaked when I said I wanted one though :(

Jason

[Linds]

Snails rock! They are the coolest pets :p

Originally posted by Dani33
I think that Giant African Land Snails are the biggest, getting up to 8". I would really like to get one. Apparently, they don't need a mate to lay fertile eggs. Can these be fed to monitors like the apple snails? I'm curious because they lay like 100 eggs

They can actually lay up to 200ish eggs in a clutch. They aren't asexual however, they are hermaphrodites, so they do need another snail to mate with. Giant African Land Snails are actually part of a Savs natural diet. They are illegal around here so the sale of them is prohibitted at shows.

Originally posted by Scales Zoo

We had Giant African Land snails - but unfortunately they dried out, and did not survive.

Weird. They are supposed to be able to survive freezing temps, droughts, and food shortages - I believe this is one of the reasons they are illegal in most places across North America.

[Scales Zoo]

Originally posted by Linds



Weird. They are supposed to be able to survive freezing temps, droughts, and food shortages - I believe this is one of the reasons they are illegal in most places across North America.

They probably would burrow during a drought, you know, microclimates....

Ours got too dry (really dry) and we heard if we got them humid they would come back alive - but, no they were dead. Just as well, I guess, because it was around that time I had learned that they were prohibited in Canada because of CFIA regs. I heard from others of theirs dying also.

The kind we had, I was told, only laid 30 eggs at a time. The eggs were huge (100 times bigger than our applesnail eggs)

Ryan