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Post by kippen on Sept 13, 2015 20:30:38 GMT
Hehe!! It's such a wonderful thing to see a healthy hedgehog around considering how they're becoming so endangered these days... there used to be so many in the village but the only ones I've seen in the last few years have been a couple of car accident victims and that one this morning! I'm sure you'll find something they enjoy!! They're probs just not used to all the spoiling!! Took mine a few days to adjust... I got really worried about Cappa initially as he wouldn't eat anything I gave them... but once I put a bit of dandelion in he ate pretty much anything. Spose he didn't realise the other stuff was food or something!
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Post by etana on Sept 14, 2015 4:00:37 GMT
Shush Kip, Jo's snails are from me so they did get a lot of TLC! Jo, make sure that you are *Not* changing the food right when someone doesn't eat it - that'll teach them they get their faves as a reward of saying no! Also don't put the lettuce in for a few days, to stop them from learning that they can always choose that. It'll be much easier to ensure they are nutrified if they accept many kinds of foods. Sorry about slight OT.
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Post by kippen on Sept 14, 2015 6:03:11 GMT
Hehe!! didn't realise... but I'm sure they did then!! I had the same problem with mine and cucumber so I had to stop giving Iit to them for a while!! might end up getting some snails form you myself in the future!! They sure sound like happy little gastropods!!!!
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Post by etana on Sept 14, 2015 11:28:49 GMT
It's alright. Yeah I only give cucumber once or twice a month myself, just like how often I let myself have pizza or hamburgers in a restaurant. It's after all the snaily equivalent of junk food. Oh, you're very welcome to buy my snails if you live in Europe/UK, for now I only sell different variations of A. fulica (and only for a few more weeks) and calcium, but next year I will put up some more special advertisements when me and the snails are ready.
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Post by kippen on Sept 14, 2015 15:21:10 GMT
Hehe!! well then it's only a matter of persuading my mum!!! I'm pretty much into any kind of snail... they're all so cute!!
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Post by etana on Sept 14, 2015 16:51:14 GMT
I agree, all snails are lovely. Good luck with your mum, though if you can handle small snails, you certainly can handle fulica - and it's not an awfully long trip to the other giant snails from fulica, in most cases they just require a better heating system than fulica do. Anyhow! My tanks! I shipped away a bunch of fulica today, added a fake tree from Ikea, and egg checked & cleaned up all around. I had to return the plastic pear to the big tank because it kept getting bulldozed, but I'll make it up to the snails somehow. I keep wild caught snails too, but their tank wasn't very photogenic today. So here are the homes for my giant snails. My big tank, sorry it's actually a pretty bad pic. Anyhow, all the plants are fake (I have attempted keeping real ones in there many times, but so far it hasn't worked out for good. I will be giving St. Patrick's Gabbage another try though, I have it in pots now). There are many plastic flower pots on top of each other to make many "caves" for hiding and sleeping in, and pear and strawberry shaped plastic hamster houses for the same purpose. There's also a bath tub and a food dish that you can't really see in the pic, and of course several calcium sources. There's only one fulica who's 12 cm long, the second biggest is 8 cm I think and the rest are smaller. My small tank, very similar to the big one, only with prettier wallpaper on the insulated, heated wall lol. The fake ivy is the same kind as in the big tank. I own more of those tree root pieces and love the way they look, but after in the big tank Tauno hid a clutch of eggs in a hole of one and I didn't find it until they hatched, I'm a bit more careful with who I let sit on one. There's a dark fabric thrown over the tank to make a dark corner in the far-right area, and it's usually crowded with snails. Mauno lives in this tank with a few other snails who require more heat than fulica do, they're small except for the elusive Gaius, so thus far there's room, but eventually I need more tanks. He's had a root since he was a baby, he loves to sit on one every day, so he definitely can have his root - any eggs will be welcome, too. I used to have a few fulica in this tank to liven it up during the days, but I moved them back to the big tank today because I want Mauno to breed and I want to be sure any eggs are his.
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Post by kippen on Sept 14, 2015 18:34:57 GMT
Your tanks are lovely!! I'm sure your snails really love it... i know I would if I was a snail!! Hehe!! Would love to have bigger snails... With a bigger tank... so more decorating! Tho I'm struggling to accommodate my all my current animals in one room!! ... actually... i bet if I put my head to it I would be able to convert one of the big sheds in the garden into a pet room!!! Then I could keep all sorts without getting in my mum's way!!!... out of sight out of mind and all!! That's a great idea... I'll get planning straight away!!
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Post by etana on Sept 14, 2015 19:26:03 GMT
Thank you! Heh, that's a benefit of having a place of your own - you can have pets in as many rooms as you like! The shed idea sounds good, if it's not too cold in there!
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Post by kippen on Sept 14, 2015 19:48:46 GMT
... can't wait to have a place of my own!! The shed was built for me and my sis when we were younger for sleepovers so it's pretty good... just needs a bit of paint and a few new panels! It's kitted out with electric and smoke alarms and all that monkeys juice already so it wouldn't be too difficult!!
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Post by snailcrazy on Sept 14, 2015 20:44:00 GMT
Ooo Kippen sounds lovely where you live. I put my 2 panthera in a warm bath yesterday, they loved it, they were snorkeling and having a really good swim around. And then got very frisky with each other. Luckily the baby snailies weren't watching. I told them no eggs cos I got loads.
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Post by kippen on Sept 14, 2015 20:58:40 GMT
Hehe!! Crazy snailies!!
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Post by jolovessnailies on Sept 14, 2015 21:12:53 GMT
Thanks for the advice Etana love, no lettuce for snailies tomorrow. I agree too, I adore all snailies I have seen some very tiny ones around here at certain times of the year. That set up in wonderful hun, I am sure I am never going to put together something as good as that. We were talking today about a bigger home for them, I think it will be sooner rather than later. I just love all this snail chat. Hugs JO xx
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Post by kippen on Sept 14, 2015 21:29:52 GMT
Agree... about the snaily chat!! It's great to find so many people that are also so very passionate about the little critters!!
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Post by jolovessnailies on Sept 15, 2015 17:19:26 GMT
They are so cute, two of them were having a munch today and both their eyes were out literally on stalks. Mine go like that when I see a hot man LOL!!
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by kippen on Oct 4, 2015 21:57:52 GMT
Sorry it's sideways... but I've just finished making and setting up my custom stackable egg/hatchling boxes for my Cepaea clutches!! they've got labels on the top with parents name and clutch size... because I love labels!!
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