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Post by Dusk on Jun 28, 2010 4:41:08 GMT
All achatina and archachatina snails are classified as invasive agricultural pests in the US and there is no way for private citizens to legally own them. I presume there is some arrangement made for zoos, but I don't know any details. In Canada, the law is almost the same, except for achatina achatina, which can be kept with a permit. I don't think any European country has regulations against them, and many of them regularly import snails for the food trade and occasionally for the pet trade. It would be interesting to get hold of a couple of wild-caught fulis and see how they do in the same conditions as many-generation-captive-bred specimins If anyone hears of any being imported, I'd like to give it a try.
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Post by fluffy on Jun 29, 2010 12:42:19 GMT
How would you control if people hold permits? - Send the police?
Not even animal rights activists really care about invertebrates. That's why they are about the only animals that can be sent by regular mail.
We can only hope that people are responsible enough only to breed with proper, healthy snails.
I 'm really opposed to importing fresh wc fulicas. That will just delay this development. It won't really change anything. Leave them where they belong and breed with healthy cbs.
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Post by AlienSnail on Jun 29, 2010 16:29:29 GMT
Is their no way to tell which Snails are the weak gened ones? Say, for example, a Fulica only managed to reach about 6 cm, whereas they are supposed to get up to around 11 in captivity. Would that be inbred or weak gened? Thanks x I don't know, however it amounts to pretty much the same. If they have weak/dodgy genes then - well - they have weak/dodgy genes, and if they're runty because they are inbred then the inbreeding has caused dodgy genes. It's also possible that there may be any other factor for causing stunted growth. I don't know of any way to tell the cause of weak genes, which is why it's speculation at the moment, but any ill/runty/weak snails should not be allowed to breed.
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Post by fluffy on Jun 29, 2010 18:23:13 GMT
Doesn't common sense tell us that?
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Post by katie on Jun 29, 2010 19:25:01 GMT
How would you control if people hold permits? - Send the police? Not even animal rights activists really care about invertebrates. That's why they are about the only animals that can be sent by regular mail. I don't know to be honest, i have very little knowledge on the way permits work, its like the one topic we dont actually cover at school But, from what you'v said about the Animal rights people not really caring that much for intervertebrates (which really sucks, i'd always thought they'd care for all types of creatures ), i can see why they wouldn't work :/
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