Welcoming Gary, Snelly, Shelly, Rocky, and Turbo to the family with some 'pizza' 🥰

Ice cream snails! These are available in my Etsy shop, link in my profile. 🍨🐌

Meet Pudding! :3

Pudding is a Hedleyella falconeri (giant panda snail) and I love dem!

**this is ur sign to buy a snail if ur feeling sad**responsibly ofc**

ughhh mom it's not a phase. all the cool snails are having corner time, it's about rejecting organic form and assuming angles like brutalism or minecraft.

Not sure about this new 'moss' stuff 🐌

in a small garden there are a thousand empty shells...

but only one

is in a flower-filled grave.

Behold! Narrator's pet;

Linear the Snail

Hello!! I've been thinking about keeping some garden snails, and during my research learnt that they like to live in pairs. Is this true, and if so, how do I prevent them mating? I don't think I'm ready for hundreds of babies!! Thanks!

Hello friend, thanks for the ask! Sorry it took a hot minute to answer!

To be super honest, snails don't really "like" much other than food, they're just not really complex enough to require social interaction with other snails, so if you just want one go for it. I do love watching them interact with each other though!

One thing to keep in mind is that snails, being hermaphrodite animals, can self fertilise eggs, so even if you just get one you will still need to do regular soil checks to look for eggs. In fact, its probably even more important, as self fertilised eggs are usually poor quality and will lead to lots of runty/not very healthy snails in the clutch.

Avoiding a hundred snabies is pretty simple though, just dig around in the substrate once a week or so, and if you find eggs, crush or freeze them. I tend to give the eggs back to the snails afterward because it takes a fair bit of nutrients to lay so many and I like to try and give that back. Side note, you can't really prevent them from mating, it's just what they do lol.

It's up to you whether you want to keep one snail or many, but either way soil checks and destruction of eggs is an important part of snail keeping. I hope this helps!!

Happy Holiday season from Gary! :P

Fun fact! Rumina decollata are carnivorous snails! Even eating other species of snails

Also fun fact! I have them as pets :]

look at my son wesker dinking his oiter

There is a story behind this one. Snails breed like mad and when I was in Cali at Disney, we had an issue with some eggs hatching. Eggs I didn’t know were there. We kept 2 hatchlings, cleaned the hell out of the tank and had to get rid of the other almost 80.

Fast forward a few days. I’m cleaning the tank again and I see a baby on the kitchen counter. He was NOT supposed to be there. Somehow, this little one survived and we joked that the universe needed this baby to survive.

His name is Jack Shellington.

bingbong huge salad…

Peachtober22 Day 30/31: Pet

A pet snail is already not the most conventional pet, but a RAINBOW PET SNAIL?? 🐌🌈

[Prints of all artworks from this month available here]

Snail dinner tonight is carrots, spinach, and fish flakes

The reason I give them a decent amount of food is both so they have variety in their diet and because I don't check on them every day and wanna make they always have food