big and smol!!!!also a thing on hatching snails- huge tw yall not funa harsh reality of hatching sna
big and smol!!!!also a thing on hatching snails- huge tw yall not funa harsh reality of hatching snails is that you will need to cull runts if you plan on keeping them as pets. in the wild runts won’t last long, but if you keep them in captivity they will grow up and reproduce with no issues (or they might die young bc runts have issues), weakening the gene pool. it keeps everything more humane for sneepers (snail keepers) for breeders to cull the runts. it’s super super super sad and it’s probably the worst part about owning snails!!! unless you’re super super ready to have babies, don’t keep snails without doing regular egg checks! if you see a clutch of eggs and you aren’t ready for 100+ babies, some of which you will need to kill, just scoop the eggs out of the tank and freeze them. my clutch was planned months in advance- i have a lot of friends that want babies for pets, any extras i’m either keeping or giving to a reptile store to feed to their cuban false chameleons. please please please please do not breed your pet snails unless you have homes lined up for them, parents with ideal genetics, and the guts to cull the runts. also this is my snail’s first (and hopefully only) clutch so the number of babies fell on the lower end of the spectrum- 81 before culling, i haven’t counted since bc school. garden snails can have 100-200 on average!!!!!(if a snail species is native to your area it’s kind of a different deal, i’m not an expert but you can release some babies- however the vast vast vast majority of snails are invasive!!!!!) -- source link
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