Hi Guys!
So a lot has been happening recently which forced me to take a little break from pretty much everything.
For those of you who follows me on YouTube, you already know that one of my rats passed away.
I took that really hard and I needed a while to get back into things.
But that´s not what this post will be about.
I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce you to my new snails :D
I was browsing a local site called "Blocket" it´s kinda like Craigslist.
And I looked under the animal section and came across these guys that needed a new home :D
The lady who sold them had bought them for her daughter but her daughter thought they were a bit creepy to deal with so they needed to get rid of them.
I've always wanted these giant land snails, and if you have seen my Expo videos you have probably noticed that I always film them while I´m there.
So I was really excited to find them and I thought that I could give them a nice new home.
I actually ended up getting them for free and she was even kind enough to drive to my home and drop them off, she just wanted them to end up in a nice place :D
She did tell me that there might be eggs already in the enclosure and I did a quick check to see if I could spot any eggs.
Apparently I didn't check the substrate enough cause a few days later when I was going to clean the enclosure I noticed something on the shell on one of the snails:
So this was what greeted me when I opened up the enclosure, two little snail babies.
My first thought was: well maybe only a few of them has hatched and I will have the time to get the eggs out of there before more of them hatch..
That didn't happen.
One after the other started to emerge from the substrate.
At that point I was freaking out a bit cause I was not prepared for snail babies at all.
I mean I know they lay eggs constantly but I thought that I would have a few days to make up a plan of what I would do with the snails once that happened.
I sent a text to my dear friend Bonnie (Bonniebadgers on YouTube) and told her what I found in the enclosure and she said that she would love to have some.
So 3 of the snail babies went to live with her :D
That made me so happy cause I know she will take really good care of them.
After that I called up Uffe at Tropikhuset and asked him if he could take some of them.
People use the eggs and the small snails to feed there Turtles and bigger Lizards, but I don´t have any turtles or large lizards myself.
We made a deal that I would keep all the snail babies until they grew to around 1-2 cm in size (size of the shell)
So yesterday I went over to Tropikhuset and dropped off 70! snail babies.
I kept 5 of them for myself, I would have loved to keep all of them but that would be impossible.
Specially since the adults have already started laying new eggs in the enclosure.
Eventually I will try and sell some of them, maybe at the Expo or something like that.
But they are easier to sell once they are bigger and I just couldn't keep that many at home.
I will update you guys in a few days with some pictures of how big the snail babies are now, they eat and grow like crazy!
Anyways I hope you are all doing well! :D
This was all for this time.
Take Care!
