Hard/soft water areas

[AlienSnail]

I've just been having a conversation with a member here about how certain species don't do so well, yet other people's thrive.

Basically I'm generally better with Achatina than Archachatina, (though I do have some thriving Archachatina sp), and this other member has success with Archachatina but not so much with Achatina, so we're opposites..

We have Glitterbug who's had some bad luck with her Limis, although she's tried hard to keep them and it doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with her set-up, and I have had a similar experience with Iredalei.

It's hard to compare our set-ups without phyically taking a look at each other's, but some of us have tried hard to replicate successful set-ups and yet some species of snails have still died off.

So I was wondering if hard and soft water areas have got anything to do with it.

We soak our substrate, fill up water dishes, spray the snails; could some snails be affected by the water we use I wonder? Could it even have anything to do with the additives found in our local water supplies?

What do you guys think?

[laurent]

Hi,

You know, while I was having trouble with my Achatina achatinas, I wondered if it had anything to do with the water I used. As we soak the soil, and some of the water evaporates, I spent some time trying to figure out if all that didn't lead to concentration of various products in the soil, and therefor poisoning the snails.

When you want to see if there is some contamination in the soil, moss and mollusc are often used because they accumulate all these things and seldom process them or eliminate them.

Might be... but then again, my Achatina reticulata share the same type of substrate (nearly), and the exact same water. I never had troubles with them !

Don't know if that helps carrying on the debate...

Laurent