Pet Snails? <3

[72jay]

Nice to see the updated pics QueenOdi

This is from one of my fishtanks...I don't really consider these pets, they're almost pests with how prolifically they breed LOL but a few are ok... (these get no bigger than a half-inch...for scale here, the gravel is alittle bigger than 1/8 inch)

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[72jay]

The two babies. Not quite sure if they're Otala Lactea yet.

Those are about the the max size of the garden snails I see around here (& look very much like them).

[Sylph]

i often as a kid would look in the garden for snails and before rush hour traffic i would dot them over the road and play survivial of the fittest.... Any alive by 10am had an extra day to live lol before i saw karma

Shame on you Mr.:mad: No snail kiss for you :p(and they have cute kissies )

Glad you learned the error of your ways .

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@72Jay, :o, that's as big as they get out there? These are just the babies :p . Otala Lactea( Along with other snail families, such as Helix and Caepea) are medium-large terrastrial gastropods, though no where as large Archachatina (The biggest of the Giant african snail species) .

The Predatory, Carnivorous snail; Rosy Wolf Snail, is quite large, almost the size of a Achatina Fulica, and when you see it, you're first reaction is to jump back, cause they're pretty fast for a snail. It's partially cute though, cause it's got a moustache (that's actually it's "lips" and uses them to suck snails out of their shells :eek: ) .

[Nick9]

It's partially cute though, cause it's got a moustache (that's actually it's "lips" and uses them to suck snails out of their shells :eek: ) .

Wow, I have never seen a snail like that...



http://bogleech.com/bio-gastropoda.html

[72jay]

@72Jay, :o, that's as big as they get out there? These are just the babies :p .

Yep thats around the biggest I've ever seen...but the little garden snails here are only around for summer (& part of spring/fall). They will either hibernate or simply not survive in the winter cold.

If I remember I can post a pic of one... but it won't be til June (May if we get a warm spring)

[Sylph]

~Small Update~

Last night I found a Blue Otala Lactea!! They're usually brown or beige banded, but this one is a bright blue. Quite unusual I think .

Azure (that's his name )

[Nick9]

Oh, the last pic is nice! So, you were hunting, huh? :tongue:

I like these:

[Sylph]

Oh, the last pic is nice! So, you were hunting, huh? :tongue:

I like these:

Hunting... lol I wouldn't call it that.

I actually went out last night, cause the wind was blowing away my grandmother's lawnchairs and I happened to see him on the wall across from the table. I noticed him because he's so brightly coloured.

Those slugs look poisonous :o . I don't know exactly what they are though .

[jaxc]

random fact, all snails are hermaphrodites