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Breeding

​We have a varied and growing collection of small creatures here at home and we try to keep each
individual species in as natural a habitat as possible with regard to substrate, temperature & humidity.
Some of them will breed quite happily and as we can't keep them all
we will usually have some offspring available in our online shop.

Any money raised goes straight back into our hobby to go towards the upkeep & feeding as well as helping
with the costs involved in the study & research of lesser known species.
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Giant Snails

* All of our different colour forms for most species are kept separate from each other as shown on our species pages.

*We keep at least 2 colonies of each snail species to prevent inbreeding after import issues in the last few years.


* We do not allow all our eggs to hatch, sometimes they are frozen to prevent overcrowding & inbreeding.

* We only keep eggs from giant snail species that are over 2 years old and have a good shell length.​

* We try to add fresh bloodlines to our breeding groups whenever possible.

​* All snails in our adult breeding groups are un-related to each other.

* We only ever sell animals that we have bred ourselves.
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* We do cull all the runts.

Eggs
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Snail eggs vary in size & shape, some are like little balls of jelly, some have a thin hard shell
and some are a beautiful oval shape like the Caracolus Sagemon eggs shown below.
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Most of these photos were taken when we were known as Collective Snails - I will be updating them at some point.
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Cryptozona Bistralis
Pleurodonte Isabella
Helix Lucorum
Neohelix Albolabris
Helix Pomatia
Tanychlamys Amboinensis
Paropeas Achatinaceum
Pleurodonte Marginella
Archachatina Papyracea
Archachatina Marginata Ovum
Caracolus Sagemon
Rumina Decollata
Subulina Octonas
Anguispira Alternata
Achatina Banderiana
Eobania Vermiculata
Hadra Webbi
Helicophanta
Leptaxis Undata
Oospira Umbratica
Caucasotachea Calligera
Lissachatina Immaculata Panthera
Archachatina Porphyrostoma
Pleurodonte Excellens
Pseudoachatina Laeiana
Chiliborus Rosaceus
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