Post by muddydragon on Apr 30, 2015 20:19:23 GMT
Hi everyone,
Time for my introduction,
I’m a plant science PhD student in north-east England. I’ve been keeping non-native snails since 2009 but had been keeping native snails on and off since I was tiny. My first giant African land snails were four Lissachatina (previously Achatina) fulica from Gumtree, called Illya Snailakin, Napolean Snailo, Indiana No-Bones and James Slime-Fond. I currently keep Archachatina marginata candefacta, Archachatina marginata ovum, Archachatina marginata suturalis, Hadra webbi, Limicolaria numudica, Lissachatina fulica, Pleurodonte Isabella and Pleurodonte marginella. In the past I have also kept Lissachatina reticulata and Subulina octona. My oldest snails are a jadatzi form jadatzi called Diamond who was hatched in june 2009 and a Hadra webbi called “old fella” who was purchased from Kempton park invertebrate show as a juvenile in 2009. As you can probably tell Archachatina marginata is my favourite species (shush don’t tell the others!), I occasionally breed from them and I am pro people keeping pedigrees on their snails wherever possible to avoid heavy inbreeding. I’m also very curious about skin colour inheritance in Archachatina marginata.
Outside of snails I have four goldfish (Caspian, Klaus, Captain carassius sarasa red fin scourge of the seven ponds and Aegir) and a Syrian hamster (Storm). I’ll also talk a lot about the family dog, who lives with my parents, Sam.
Time for my introduction,
I’m a plant science PhD student in north-east England. I’ve been keeping non-native snails since 2009 but had been keeping native snails on and off since I was tiny. My first giant African land snails were four Lissachatina (previously Achatina) fulica from Gumtree, called Illya Snailakin, Napolean Snailo, Indiana No-Bones and James Slime-Fond. I currently keep Archachatina marginata candefacta, Archachatina marginata ovum, Archachatina marginata suturalis, Hadra webbi, Limicolaria numudica, Lissachatina fulica, Pleurodonte Isabella and Pleurodonte marginella. In the past I have also kept Lissachatina reticulata and Subulina octona. My oldest snails are a jadatzi form jadatzi called Diamond who was hatched in june 2009 and a Hadra webbi called “old fella” who was purchased from Kempton park invertebrate show as a juvenile in 2009. As you can probably tell Archachatina marginata is my favourite species (shush don’t tell the others!), I occasionally breed from them and I am pro people keeping pedigrees on their snails wherever possible to avoid heavy inbreeding. I’m also very curious about skin colour inheritance in Archachatina marginata.
Outside of snails I have four goldfish (Caspian, Klaus, Captain carassius sarasa red fin scourge of the seven ponds and Aegir) and a Syrian hamster (Storm). I’ll also talk a lot about the family dog, who lives with my parents, Sam.
