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Trying to be more social on this site so I'm gonna post some of my snail photos (snotos). ------------ [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gend/3121197/3#post_51265025]~Newest post~ Pics of the full setup + Bloodworm Night!![/url][/center] ------------ Here's a few backlog photos. This summer I had a rough time keeping the snail terrarium (snerrarium) balanced (not having a place to live made it really hard to maintain). My potato bug population exploded and then died off almost completely. A bunch of my babies died and some of my less healthy babies somehow avoided culling so their shells were deformed. It caused a big drop in my snail tank population and I was very sad. But then as soon as we moved into our apartment and I got everything stabilized again: [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/04468f7f321e166721f5049ac4e8fc9b/9930d77bce27e493-1c/s500x750/87db15019a907138062bbf5adb1f1caffb4c2670.jpg[/img] Babies!!! Newborns!! I cried bc I felt so guilty about dragging them along my bout of homelessness, but they bounced back- [i]life finds a way[/i]. *sobbing at the beauty and simplicity of such a tiny tiny creature lmao* Some of these were genetically healthy and survived into adulthood and are still in the tank. Fast forward to springtime! Another clutch hatched! Here is a newborn on my finger and a photo of a snail I found at a local plant nursery! My snail tank snails are a native species found through the midwest/south of America, but this hitchhiker looks like cornu aspersum, who is a European breed that was brought to the Americas for food. He will not be eaten in this home! [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/0ae09fab881d0175dd05cc0d3a8f76c8/c9ad6337296e4a1b-4b/s500x750/5da1d9a8fe83651c1cd34dded5ba424870c05f0e.jpg[/img] And here he is today! [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/cdd53eb6fb3360c8e27b3715533aab6f/757b00233d76f650-e6/s500x750/26ecdb94ae1e3bb017eb0eca97718f7d895c8cde.jpg[/img] [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/86bdf3707bc8191eb47ec84bc1af4e74/757b00233d76f650-e1/s500x750/cc09e7924af15c5051b4cc3bac893e72f972d3c0.jpg[/img] That is one month of growth! He is already bigger than the adults in my planted terrarium!!! He's been in a quarantine tank and will be until the end of May, but I think he's gonna need his own snail tank instead of being housed with them. And maybe a few more cornu aspersum friends! All for now, will post more when I have more snail updates (snupdates).

@Requacy
snails

Bonus: The potato bugs are bouncing back too [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/5753c58af20a93ea4a3287d872a4f8b0/b94b8aeeb4f875f8-6b/s2048x3072/8de0c7fd501a1c750b9145a06237461821140c33.jpg[/img] And this baby ninja assassin appeared on my finger without me even realizing, when I went in to take a pic of the potato bugs. [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/e9e5b7a0bcd97dc51cad72a8f44249b4/b94b8aeeb4f875f8-6e/s2048x3072/0fd5c02c3223779160f83769252af164849918f5.jpg[/img]

[quote name="@TricksySixx" date="2022-03-29 12:22:22" ] @/Requacy snails [/quote] [font=American Gothic][size=4] [i]!!!!!! SNAILS!!!!!![/I] @Mackenzi Your snails are great!! I used to keep aquatic ones, although sadly I had to regime them when I could not keep the tank anymore. Luckily, the place I gave them to gives them good care, and I can visit them and their descendants regularly! Glad you could find a little hitchhiker friend!

@Requacy Thank you!!!! They're currently my favorite animal. I'm sorry you had to get rid of yours, it's great you get to visit them and see them thriving! I was looking for someone to house mine for me when we actually finally got approved for a place at last. x_x They were real troopers and I'm glad I had a bioactive tank so I could forgo most cleaning and let the buggos handle it, otherwise it would have been so much worse.

The hitchiker felt like perfect destiny! We moved away from the location I could pluck new snails from the wild and put them in the tank, so now I can't let them breed indefinitely. Been looking online for places I can legally order new ones and then bam, one of the most common species shows up on a plant I bought. Fate!!!

Hell, this is one of the most random things ever but as a snail lover, NEED MORE UWU

@Mackenzi

You're welcome! Ahh, thank you so much! It was rough, but the fish I kept in the tank died from old age (they lived long, happy lives), and the deal was I could keep the tank until the fish died. Still, I'm glad I can visit them! Ahhh, that's great to hear! I'm glad you're in a better place, along with them! Ohh, that's great. Bioactive tanks are the best. Tons of enrichment, too! Someday I hope to have a bioactive invertebrate enclosure.

That's amazing! Destiny, thy name is snail! I love the concept of finding a little friend on a planet. Sounds like a children's book! I live is a place where I'm 99% certain I cannot pick up wild snails (where I live is strict- good, but definitely strict for understand reasons), so when I decide I'm ready to bring some invertebrates home again, I'll try to do what you're doing.

Completely lost my tablet pen and spent all day cleaning the place to try and find it, still no luck, so I'm gonna post here instead of drawing today (sob)! Unnamed snail is finally getting a vote on their name! Pls feel free to chime in with your favorite of these options: Tanner Chestnut Buttercup Macchiato Coco [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/3784baf416bf95dfbbaad5068ea4ba41/b549014eae67d84c-e7/s2048x3072/43bafaddc5708d63fd6fc1f3c6a41befe60e9be3.jpg[/img] Exquisite bode [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/dbc1bd0f46bbb59f153b614c949e8d0b/3dc9b2e50687ce78-66/s2048x3072/6d7edc21171add837f2254921ae88bca6ba30f78.jpg[/img] And since I don't want my native snails in the terrarium to feel left out, here's a lil shot of one of them peeking out of their skull decoration for a snack: [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/aecacc8e17cc0e016eab41c2a3f53c0d/f98ea927a3ee86ba-42/s2048x3072/21d80fad9c6329144ed34380760a80939524f2c8.jpg[/img] And, the potato bugs say hello. Quite a good selection here, some are getting so big! Yes there are also mites. :( I am looking into buying predatory mites to solve my mite problem. Very frustrated but it's par for the course with a bioactive terrarium, sometimes plants don't get properly washed down/quarantined and they bring in a pest. At least this time it's not planarians. [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/140acca08de42aac57dde7dbf99d1a78/f98ea927a3ee86ba-09/s2048x3072/271c99201b775d942824f40eae0245e638658387.jpg[/img] [size=1]you can see my nails get dirtier the longer I root around in the terrarium hehe[/size]