Melanie!!

This is Melanie........we discovered her last week on the 12th August!........
Marrow and Marjorie have been busy!!..........
She's so small and so cute..........I'll be posting regular updates of her progress.
She's our first home bred Marginata.........even though she wasn't planned!! :)

Snail Update April 2010

Right ... I haven't blogged in AGES! So here's an update of my gang....


New Tank lid arrived last week! Love it!

Here's Marjorie,posing!

Marrow was being shy today!

Back in the nice clean tank,feasting!

Snail Sex!

So we arrived home last Saturday night to find these 2 guys having some snailie 'fun'!!These are 2 of the Jade x Rodatzis,so hatchlings should be interesting!!...We may well end up with some albino babies!!
Fingers crossed for eggs!!! :)

Rodatzi x Jade baby

So this little guy/gal is nearly 3 months old and is a cross between an Achatina Fulica Hamillei F. Rodatzi and an Achatina Fulica F. 'White jade' ........other wise nicknamed a Jadatzi!

So a rodatzi has a yellowish albino type shell and the Jade has a normal shell but with a albino body.....so with this little guy being a cross it should be quite interesting what he turns into!!
We're guessing he's going to look like a normal Hamillei this time around,but there's 3 of them,so when bred again they may throw out an albino bodied snail!?

Anyway for now him and his siblings (who are nameless at the moment) have a lot of growing to do...so watch this space! :)

Phyllis..Jan 08

So here's Phylis at 4 months old...she's growing quite well.you can see from the pictures that her whorles have stayed the same but the rest of her shell is growing quite normal.
Her shell is rather rough looking and has quite a rough texture compared to her siblings but despite her her little oddities,she's doing very well!!! :)

Broken Shell!

So look at what silly Olive did 2 days ago!!!
I opened the lid for feeding time and she decided to fall off the roof into the tank and knocked her shell on a piece of mopani wood that sits in there.....she's taken a right chunk out of her shell,but she didn't seem too concerned about the whole thing!! Lucky for snails,their shells can self heal as long they have a constant supply of calcium,which they have in the form of cuttlefish!
I'll keep updating Olives progress as she heals herself! :)

Thor & Olive...

So this is Thor and Olive,brother and sister to little Phyllis!As you can see they are huge compared to her and are growing really fast,they look really healthy and will soon be the size of their dad Jim! :)

Snail Book!

This arrived yesterday!!!..My belated birthday present to myself........
It cost me £38,but looks like it's worth every penny!

I bought it from NHBS online Book store.
:)

Land Snail

Just a little snailie update! This is Vic on one of the rare occasions i see him awake,he's very shy! His brother is far more willing to pose for the camera,so will take a shot of Bob for my next post! :)

Garden snail!

How gorgeous is this little guy!!!!
(helix aspersa) That's the posh name for a garden snail! :)

Bank holiday!! & snails!

Strange way to spend the bank holiday i know! But i had great fun weighing and measuring my snails tonight! This is Vic who is 14 cm long and weighs 11 0z!
And HUGE thanks to my man who let me use his tools to measure him with :)
Got a chick pea curry on the hob now so a marvelous tea for a marvelous bank holiday!! :)

Giant African Land Snails

check out my slimey beauties Vic & Bob!!!! They're HUUGE!!