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| Lotabob |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 00:53:46
My Gal had disappeared under the soil a week ago so I dug her out to check she was ok and found an enormous clutch off eggs. Her first.
Now due to lack of demand for this many snails I terminated 350 of them, dropped into boiling water, it's a sad end but they weren't really ever started yet.
I intend to hatch the rest, a few for me to keep, a few to the reptile shop free of charge, there is no money in Gals and the rest are frog food.
Anyway after boiling they're all cleaned up.
So who's coming round for breakfast tomorrow, bring your own soldiers. |
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| Lotabob |
Posted - 14/07/2013 : 19:18:41
Well they are hatching. 2 up so far but this one is the first
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| Lotabob |
Posted - 10/07/2013 : 01:07:50
I have my own little snail farm with specially selected helix Aspersa. Just on a small scale to get a measure of their growth speed etc and these are for the pot in the long run, maybe not this generation as there are only around 70 or so. I shall keep this updated. |
| BlueDragon |
Posted - 09/07/2013 : 12:10:27
There may not be any money in GALS, but there is big money to be made with Snail eggs.
As has been mentioned there are a small number of people out there who breed Garden Snails in their hundreds in order to collect the thousands of eggs they all lay. The eggs are collected fresh every morning, packed into little tubs and sold like caviar. It costs a fortune as well! Apparently there's now restraunts out there who are regular customers of these eggs and they're becoming more of a demand.
And of course it's much more enviromentally sound than caviar it'-self.
...And no, I've never tried eating my own GALS eggs!
This thread could be like the 'what-to-do-with-shed' thread.
I'll go first.
How about you wait till around Easter time, then collect them all up and boil them (assuming they're fresh and non-developed of course). Then go out into the garden, hide them places, and have your kids play the hardest egg-hunt game ever!
Winner gets a beautifully decorated Snail egg. |
| boomslang |
Posted - 09/07/2013 : 03:11:48
I no most will think,there only snails etc.But seems a shame to just bin them :) |
| Lotabob |
Posted - 08/07/2013 : 23:15:58
My fish are a bit little but I'm looking into a way to make use of them. They are frozen in the freezer for now though that has cracked them so maybe this time around they are bin bound. |
| boomslang |
Posted - 04/07/2013 : 14:49:56
Can't you feed the ones you don't want to your fish? |
| jonnyc1988 |
Posted - 03/07/2013 : 21:42:04
Are you going to try them then? |
| Lotabob |
Posted - 03/07/2013 : 21:14:38
It's a delicacy. Like caviar evidently. |
| Pythonwizard |
Posted - 03/07/2013 : 20:45:32
Is it possible to eat the eggs this may sound stupid but is it. I remember SnakeBytes done a show on infertile snake eggs and they eat them. i know down to the size of them it wouldnt be worth it but is it possible |
| Falice |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 15:42:25
Wow that's a lot of eggs! A snail I had years ago laid about 300. |
| jonnyc1988 |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 14:56:07
Omelette? |
| reptiledanny |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 09:36:52
pink tongue skinks will eat baby GALS, not sure about the eggs, but I know there diet is mainly snails, and they are adorable little skinks.  |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 08:57:20
Wow what a clutch! We have about 100 or so at the local reptile store but yours vastly outnumbers it.
What else eats these eggs? Trying to think what I can use mine for lol |
| Lotabob |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 07:52:35
It's a giant African land snail (Achatina fulica). I've looked up clutch sizes and the average is around 200 so she did well. |
| Foremand |
Posted - 02/07/2013 : 01:38:51
Omg. I can't believe the number of offspring. What type of snails are they? |
