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Hi I am new to cornsnakes and forums!
- Thread starter nismo
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thanks!!
African land snails are amazing creatures!
I love it when they are eating and when you listen quietly and you can here them eating and theres a CRUNCH!! :-offtopic
When i first heard about them and my dad said they're a bit like giant snails only with a pointed shell i didn't want to know about them :sidestep: :eek1: !!
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but i do love them! :bowdown:
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nismo
African land snails are amazing creatures!
I love it when they are eating and when you listen quietly and you can here them eating and theres a CRUNCH!! :-offtopic
When i first heard about them and my dad said they're a bit like giant snails only with a pointed shell i didn't want to know about them :sidestep: :eek1: !!
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but i do love them! :bowdown:
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nismo
Plissken said:I agree! Their eating noises are really cute. I've always loved snails.
Same here!
Everyone thinks that i am crazy for liking all creepy crawlies! :crazy02:
But i love all sorts of animals, most of all creepy crawlies!But my friends squish them :smash:!Which is cruel! Sometimes i have to pick them up and move them and they say i am mad for liking creepy crawlies and picking them up!!! :-offtopic
Sometimes they even run away! :sidestep:
:-offtopic :-offtopic
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nismo
Roy Munson
New member
Hi nismo. Welcome to the forums.
I lived near Seattle Washington for some of my childhood, and I used to keep the big land snails that lived there. They weren't as big as your Africans, but they were pretty big. I also used to keep the giant land slugs that lived on the islands of Puget Sound. These really were huge-- they were the size of bananas or cucumbers! Some were even bigger than that. They were cool pets to keep, even though they were kind of disgusting to handle.
But I have a question. When my snails and slugs produced their never-ending supply of babies, I would release them in the wild. They lived there anyway. What do you do in Britain when you have hundreds of African snail babies to get rid of?
I lived near Seattle Washington for some of my childhood, and I used to keep the big land snails that lived there. They weren't as big as your Africans, but they were pretty big. I also used to keep the giant land slugs that lived on the islands of Puget Sound. These really were huge-- they were the size of bananas or cucumbers! Some were even bigger than that. They were cool pets to keep, even though they were kind of disgusting to handle.
But I have a question. When my snails and slugs produced their never-ending supply of babies, I would release them in the wild. They lived there anyway. What do you do in Britain when you have hundreds of African snail babies to get rid of?
Roy Munson said:Hi nismo. Welcome to the forums.
I lived near Seattle Washington for some of my childhood, and I used to keep the big land snails that lived there. They weren't as big as your Africans, but they were pretty big. I also used to keep the giant land slugs that lived on the islands of Puget Sound. These really were huge-- they were the size of bananas or cucumbers! Some were even bigger than that. They were cool pets to keep, even though they were kind of disgusting to handle.
But I have a question. When my snails and slugs produced their never-ending supply of babies, I would release them in the wild. They lived there anyway. What do you do in Britain when you have hundreds of African snail babies to get rid of?
I keep them and buy lots of tanks on ebay! :grin01:
Giant slugs! I bet they were fun!
I want some now!
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nismo
Plissken
Crazy Snail Lady
LOL don't worry - I've always loved creepy crawly things myself! I get the same reactions to - people always want to squish them, and look at me like I'm mad when I come to rescue them! :grin01:
I think most destroy the eggs before hatching, Dean. They lay in such hundreds there's just no option. There's also evidence that giant African snails benefit from company, so I prefer not to keep mine alone.
I think it's actually illegal to release them in to the wild here, but I'm not 100% sure.
Roy Munson said:Hi nismo. Welcome to the forums.
I lived near Seattle Washington for some of my childhood, and I used to keep the big land snails that lived there. They weren't as big as your Africans, but they were pretty big. I also used to keep the giant land slugs that lived on the islands of Puget Sound. These really were huge-- they were the size of bananas or cucumbers! Some were even bigger than that. They were cool pets to keep, even though they were kind of disgusting to handle.
But I have a question. When my snails and slugs produced their never-ending supply of babies, I would release them in the wild. They lived there anyway. What do you do in Britain when you have hundreds of African snail babies to get rid of?
I think most destroy the eggs before hatching, Dean. They lay in such hundreds there's just no option. There's also evidence that giant African snails benefit from company, so I prefer not to keep mine alone.
I think it's actually illegal to release them in to the wild here, but I'm not 100% sure.
Plissken
Crazy Snail Lady
nismo said:
If you can find homes for them, that's great! Unfortunately there isn't much of a demand for them around here - in fact the pet shops and shelters are overflowing with the things. So I have to destroy them. I know it sounds unkind, but I work on the theory that it isn't really better to let them hatch when they have no good homes to go to. They wouldn't be looked after right. (Not to say I would mistreat them, but I just can't afford to house and feed them all.)
Of course if you can make some pocket money off your snails, that's even better
Plissken said:If you can find homes for them, that's great! Unfortunately there isn't much of a demand for them around here - in fact the pet shops and shelters are overflowing with the things. So I have to destroy them. I know it sounds unkind, but I work on the theory that it isn't really better to let them hatch when they have no good homes to go to. They wouldn't be looked after right. (Not to say I would mistreat them, but I just can't afford to house and feed them all.)
Of course if you can make some pocket money off your snails, that's even better
Don't worry i will find homes for them or i may keep them! :grin01:
Thanks for the information everyone!!
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nismo
Hi nismo. Welcome to the forums.
I lived near Seattle Washington for some of my childhood, and I used to keep the big land snails that lived there. They weren't as big as your Africans, but they were pretty big. I also used to keep the giant land slugs that lived on the islands of Puget Sound. These really were huge-- they were the size of bananas or cucumbers! Some were even bigger than that. They were cool pets to keep, even though they were kind of disgusting to handle.
But I have a question. When my snails and slugs produced their never-ending supply of babies, I would release them in the wild. They lived there anyway. What do you do in Britain when you have hundreds of African snail babies to get rid of?
I think you should not release them into the wild because they eat cros and destroy farm land which means they will get killed
P.s this may be late now because i have been busy and havent had time to come on the computer =]
Roy Munson
New member
This thread's a blast from the past! :grin01:I think you should not release them into the wild because they eat cros and destroy farm land which means they will get killed
I used to release the snails in the same places that I collected them. They were common where I lived. Can't do much about it now anyway. My time machine only goes 20 years into the past, and that was at least 25 years ago.
tyflier
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This thread's a blast from the past! :grin01:
I used to release the snails in the same places that I collected them. They were common where I lived. Can't do much about it now anyway. My time machine only goes 20 years into the past, and that was at least 25 years ago.
Wanna borrow mine? It goes back 30 years...I just can't think of anything I would want to change from when I was 5...
Roy Munson
New member
Hah! Aw man, too bad its limit is 30 years. If it could just go back 31, I could stop myself from calling my 1st grade teacher "Mom" that time by mistake in front of the whole class. How humiliating. :uhoh: :grin01:Wanna borrow mine? It goes back 30 years...I just can't think of anything I would want to change from when I was 5...