I'm back and...babies???

[theodidactus]

My adoring fans may have noticed that I've been gone lately. I made a christmas trip to Singapore to teach some students there. Now, I'm back.

The lovely thing about snails is that they're fairly independent, especially in the enormous biodome-like habitat I've made for my snails. I stocked them up on veggies, and hit the road.

Naturally, when I returned, I was anxious to see how they got on. All present and accounted for, along with maybe 20 babies! I have no idea when they hatched, but they must have been recent births, given that they're still smaller than a pea (those tiny eyestalks are adorable). I've save the five most promising, and placed them in a new terrarium (fashioned from a water flask). I haven't the foggiest idea what to do with the others; releasing them into the wild would probably be highly illegal, even though they've already overrun the island.

[AlienSnail]

Yay welcome back!

oooh it's pretty tough knowing what to do with the babies. Yeah releasing them isn't a good idea, but neither is keeping them. i doubt that you could rehome them very easily in singapore, unless your students have one each to study, but it doesn't leave much in the way of opetions really. I don't know what to suggest.

[eric2]

What kind of snails do you keep?

[theodidactus]

A. Fulicra I think. They are wild caught and quite tempermental, but I haven't had a casualty yet!

The babies have been distributed to the exemplary students of my chemistry classes, I think they're going to a good home. I kept two for myself, and both are still crawling around.

[theodidactus]

I just found another newly hatched burrow full of babies. I should check for eggs more often.

Oh well, the snail station is big enough to hold them.