i love how snails just simply exist and their owners are like “if this snail isn’t living a life of complete and utter luxury, then what’s the point?” that’s the mindset pet owners should have with all animals :’)
Haha yes! I just literally saved a Burgandy snail from a super arid environment. They belong in Europe. So cold and moist environment. I found my lil' dude living in an irrigated desert basically. Our temps hit 110 today too. It is in a large and moist jungle enclosure now (high humidity, cold, and lots of leaves for shade from my mulberry tree)
I’m still so frustrated that a person in this community had the audacity to mail you a live animal without your knowledge or desire to have one. It is unfair to toss an exotic animal with a rather long lifespan onto a stranger! None the less, I love your Slushie updates
Its awful that Slushie was just sent to you but I'm so glad that he's with you now! I've been really interested in snails in the past and I love them! A quick question, what happened with the old cleaning crew? Anyways love you!
Awww I love snails. My old school (like OLLLDDDD xD) had two snails in a tank at the back of the class. They where so well kept and where there for years after and years before I was there. I think it was where my love for exotic animals came from. I was always looking after them and making sure they had the best care! ^-^
If you'll be looking for a second snail, I highly recommend a lissachatina reticulata, which has same care needs and gets to similar size. And since they are different types, they won't crossbreed and won't keep up laying eggs, which is very exhausting for snails. Self fertisize is very rare, so you may not ever need to be taking care of eggs. I also see you giving him a cumber and tomato, which aren't very nutritious. Courgette, sweet potatoe, mushrooms are good base, but it is important to give them variety of food. Very good source of protein are grounded pumpkin/sunflower/flax seeds. And if you have such a big enclousre it would be nice to put couple of cuttlefish bones in other places so that he can always find one. And it should be put hard side down. Snails doesn't like eating it if it gets moist and brownish, so when it happens, it is best to change it to new one. If I see correclty you're also putting porcellio leavis in there? They are often used as clean up crew, but can be very protein hungry, so their population should be watched over and if there's too many of them, remove a few, as they can go for snail and starts biting on him. Your enclosure looks very aesthetic and quite safe i'm sure he'll appreciate it. :D
Thank you :) It was cucumber, red pepper and carrot, not tomato. He often gets potato, courgette, mushrooms, carrots on a more regular basis, but this was filmed on a Saturday and we do our food shop on a Sunday, so he just got a small selection of what we had left in the fridge at the time, but he gets a mix of what we have in the house at the time, I don't eat courgette but I always make sure to buy one for the snail and the rats :)
So happy to see a Slushie update! 🐌 I was so shocked when they first arrived, but it's clear you're determined to do best by them and keep up with the care.
I was looking back at a photo from may and he was half the size 😳 we were supposed to move back in April and he would’ve got the upgrade very soon after so the bigger he’s got since then has made me feel so guilty that he couldn’t get the enclosure he deserved
@@Emiology you have no reason to feel guilty, you gave him the best you could at the moment and your upgrading as soon as your able. That’s all anyone can ask for.
I have 2 garden snails (I used to have 3, one recently passed) I really want to give them an awesome setup like this one day. They are in a tub because it’s easier to maintain humidity but I hate the limited space it has, I can’t go all out for them like I do with my other animals. I do have a spare tank but it has no lid and don’t have a good mister apart from a broken spray bottle.
You're doing all you can and that is what matters!❤ Also you're doing really well with the whole situation you are in, slushie is a very, very lucky snail! 🐌😊
Snails have been my favourite animal since I was little so he has definitely made my day!! Your such an incredible person and an amazing carer for animals!
For snails you have to dig around the soil often to check and dispose of eggs which would disturb a drainage layer I think! Otherwise I would’ve added one ☺️ The spider plant I left in the pot and the other two I think will have to be replaced every few weeks as they’re eaten!
I find it so funny that it is so difficult to find an African snail in England when i can literally walk outside and an African snail is somewhere in my garden :)
Wauw thats a great enclosure! I have an immaculata and a reticulata (not together) they are such fun animals to care for :) I am going to upgrade my snails enclosure soon actually, so this was fun to watch.
Love it! I just collected a bunch of wild grove snails and have a small plastic setup for them but i plan on switching them to a twenty gallon long as soon as i can.
When it doesn't fit , give it to the boyfriend 😆. Love it because I do the same thing Always! He has saved my projects so many times ❣️ 🥰 gotta love that extra brain 🧠 power 💪😜 Set up looks absolutely gorgeous Em 🤩
Haha when I say “I’m going to fix this” what I mean is I’m going to find a man to do it for me 😂Made him drop everything he was doing to save the day lol
I really really really really really really really really really love love love love love love love love love his name. I can't get over how cute it is.
Thats a great dark damp emclosure! And no i dont mean it as a insult, snails dont like bright sunlight so its good that its on the darker side. Im getting my huge terrarium soon bc i have four giant african land snails. And they are really outgrowing their enclosure. Its going to be a hell of a job setting up a 2 meter terrarium xD.
Fun fact,land snails are territorial and remember their home by the scent of their own slime, so slushie does indeed trying to go back to its old tank.
You can raise a baby separately for 3 to ,4 months then once shell is hard it can join with big snail..you can put some small plastic tubing for it to hide
This is so cool cuz I've been planning on doing a massive upgrade for my garden snail so this will give me a lot of inspiration and ideas so I'm very thankful
@@emilyfentem6571 I didn’t realize they were illegal in America but if this is true it probably means they can be an invasive species. Just a guess though
@@emilyfentem6571 The problem is that any pets, but especially small animals, are often abandoned because people think any patch of grass is every and any animal's "natural habitat"; people also keep several snails and don't do anything to stop them from multiplying; and they can escape bad enclosures, especially the small babies. After these snails are outside, they will keep multiplying and devouring all sorts of plants, more than any native snail in the US does and the damage they can do to agriculture and biodiversity is very difficult to stop. In Florida and Hawaii they're trying to eradicate them at the moment.
Unfortunately they're considered an invasive species of snail. I was devastated when I found out because they've been a dream pet of mine for years. There's actually a few petitions people have made to try and make them legal in the US lol
Wow, you actually seal off the top? Interesting, I guess they don't consume much oxygen. I know inverts usually odn't, but this species is... exceptional lol, so I didn't want to assume that. That's good news for me, that makes them more achievable to keep at my workplace. Btw, I highly recommend always having a drainage layer whenever you set up a bioactive enclosure. Even if the substrate is relatively stable and sterile like coco fiber from bricks, water buildup on the bottom will still cause bacteria and fungi blooms over time, even with a cleanup crew. You want a gravel bed for the water to sit in and evaporate up into the substrate, and a mesh barrier to hold the substrate above the gravel.
@@Emiology There are ways to reinforce a drainage layer against tampering, if they're the type of animal to do that. Bearded dragons are infamous for that too, and there are a variety of solutions, like utilising a solid plastic mesh of some kind like milk crates or egg crate light diffuser and attaching the windowscreen mesh directly to that, or layering flat rocks or bark slats on top of the mesh. Using larger and rougher pieces for the drainage area also helps, like medium to large sized lava rocks instead of small gravel.
I'm going to change out the dirt when my mom gets home of my snails tank because I forgot to make it so there's no clumps oh and I think I've already said this more than once but your snail is adorable I wish I could have one by live in a country where it's not allowed in America I'm pretty sure they're not allowed in America that's where I live
I wish America allowed giant African land snails. There usually illegal almost everywhere here regular snails are somewhat legal but it’s illegal to release them.
Its because they are highly invasive and some of them will eat smaller snails + the babies will enjoy the shell from other snails too. "Regular snails" are probably local snails living in your country naturally :)
My enclosure always gets little bugs in it and I have to change the soil to get rid of them - does the clean up crew help with that problem? Also thank you so mych this has given me so much inspiration 😅 I’m putting a spider plant in my snails enclosure as we speak ! I think we have the exact type of snail !
Snails can be absolutely fine on their own, they aren't actually social exactly. It's competition for food that makes them more active. If you do want anothery sutralis there's a MeWe group for buying snails from breeders. Please don't get from a pet shop EVEN an invert shop. They don't know what they're doing with snails. I got some from a well known invert shop and they both were unhealthy. One even died after 2 weeks of getting it. 😭 Also, in future when putting a plant in, take the soil from the plant away and give the roots a rinse to make sure there are no nasties. I'd also add an extra calcium source as it is quite a large enclosure. But I'm so glad he's doing well!! x
Don't worry I don't buy any of my pets from pet stores! All my inverts I get from experiences sellers online, I was just trying to explain that most snails sold in pet stores don't tend to be anything other than Fulica. I'm not sure if want a second snail / another Suturalis, they wouldn't be my first choice of snail as they don't have much variety, I always had my heart set on getting a completely albino GAL when I was ready to, and as I don't have the space for another tank, perhaps that will have to wait until after Slushie :)
@@Emiology As someone in another comment mentioned, marginatas (both ovum and saturalis) are a special case where they CAN be housed with other species, which would be the achatina achatina and lissachatina reticulata. I'd go for a retic in this case, since they are one of the more healthier snail species, and they do come in albino body and can have a (mostly) albino shell! Achatina Achatina are also an option of course, but they tend to have health problems (respiratory infections) and grow suuuuuper slow.
@@baltobud8 I know! Unfortunately I'm just not very interested in any of the species that can be kept with Suturalis, I do think Tiger snails are cool though! If i'd have chosen myself I probably would have gone for Fulica just based on the colour variety available, or a pair of Ovums. Maybe in the future though :)
how do you keep your springtails and woodlice from over populating? I used to have them in my tank and they wouldn't stop breeding so I had to completely get rid of them
Hello, you might not see this comment as the video is 4 months old, but if you do I would like to congratulate for this awsome terrarium, but also leave a suggestion. The heat mat is an awfull heat source, why? Because they only emit infrared c ( infrared being the radiation we call heat) when around 1% of the suns spectrum ( the diferent types of radiation it releases that compose it's total energy) is infrared c. A big part of the infrared it releases is infrared a and b, all of them having different properties and interactions with living beings. I don't know much about snails but light (being energy) sustains all life on earth, and all or most living being are naturally exposed to it, therefore their bodies will have a use for it. Reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals have been proven to have positive impacts such as hormonal control and vitemin sintesis, and of course reptiles and amphibians also use this energy to control their body temperature. Besides that, having that poor heat soure underneath the terrarium doesn't recreate their natural habitat in any way as the energy source comes form above. When infrared a and b waves are reflected by objects they convert to infrared c, and then you better recreate both infrared a, b, and c wavelenghts of wich their bodies will use( including even ours), speacially the a and b as the c can't really pass through melanin. I'm sorry for such a long post but as someone now with some knowledge I just wanted to make it clear why you should change that heath source( the best one that comes closer to match the suns infrared spectrum is the halogen lamp) and of course the same argument goes to uv and visible light, all found in nature, and although it seems strange and further researching is necessary it has already been proven to many inverts that they have a use for this sources of energy. That said you're doing a good job and got the right sipirit,and it's great that you recognize the value of that animal when most people wouldn't think in investing for such a space for a snail.
While I appreciate all the benefits of heat lamps for other animals, the general consensus when it comes to snails is to not use them. They don’t bask under them like reptiles would and there’s more potential for the enclosure and also the snail to dry out, having a heat mat on the side or below helps to heat the soil and create humidity, heat above would possibly cause the snails to burrow into the soil and hide. Based on this advice that’s why I use a heat mat for this enclosure but definitely recognise the benefits for reptiles and my gecko gets her heat source this way ☺️
@@Emiology Ok, as I'm not familiar to snails i didn't have these ideias in account. It was great to share our ideas though I'll just leave an open thought, that because an animal doesn't necessarily bask it doesn't have to mean that they don't us that energy through for example refelcted rays that travel down to the forest flor. But I do understand your arguments and experience which I don't have with snails, it was more of an ideia worth considering and following research on if further studies come out. All said thank you for the reply and this sort of mini debate, as foward thinking keepers we always need to strive to recreate nature as closely as possible! ( said by Jhon Courtney Smith) and it's great to see the evolution in care provided even to snails.
I do not know where my snail butter is this morning I woke up she was perfectly fine but then right when my mom left to go do something I checked up on them I fed them some lettuce then I went to go check on them again and butter wasn't there I can still see popcorn but we might get a replacer if I can't find her and she might have gone loose and my cat already ate her by the way that snail is so cute
Hey, I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I’ve been looking into getting mice recently. I happen to have an old 16x16x30in mesh reptile cage and was wondering if that would make a good mouse enclosure. If not I can totally get something else, I want them to have the best lives possible!
did you ever consider finding someone who may be interested in having a snail or something, just given the way you acquired him which 'fair on you. BUT I think you're doing a great job and I'm sure Slushie is still really happy! please don't take the first part as criticism it was just curiosity.
In some channels, it is recommended to soak the giant African snails for 24 hours in salt water to kill them? Do you think it is possible to kill giant African snails without pain? If there is a way, what is it?
Girl! U did such a great job, it looks awesome! I’m so happy that you used coco soil rather than stuff with peat and sphagnum moss in it, so many ppl don’t know how harmful that stuff is to use for gardening and pets!
You're not supposed to handle them with your bare skin very often as the oils can be harmful to them. But my hand was washed with water and then wet when I picked him up just to create a barrier. But they're not a pet that should be handled all day every day :)
Would you say a bio-active setup is beginner friendly? I've always wanted land snails and I might be in a position to finally have some in the next year or two and a bioactive setup would be ideal for me. Are bioactive enclosures still relatively easy to find eggs in? (I work away so I wouldn't have difficulty finding someone to feed them and sort eggs but I wouldn't feel comfortable asking them to clean the enclosure)
It’s not too much difference than how you’d have to have a setup for snails anyway. If you don’t do a drainage layer which most people don’t recommend with animals that will burrow and need the soil turning regularily it’s the same as regular soil just with bugs in for you to turn and look for eggs, the clean up crew is quite hardly so you can move the soil around without harming them too much ☺️
@@Emiology can you explain the drainage layer to me? Is it something I need to have or something I shouldn't have? Sorry just not quite understanding and it's had to find more detailed snail care online because so many people recommend them as easy pets for kids this kind of more detailed information is lacking 🙂
Hi sorry if you answered this somewhere already but how do you tell male and female snails apart? Is there a method or do you have to guess? Thanks for sharing this video! And congrats to Slushie on his new enclosure :-)
Snails have both male and female cells so they can either lay or fertilise eggs. So slushie isn't technically a male, just had a male name to me when he was sent and it's stuck
Hi I also have 2 giant labs snails and they are both in separate viva I have one like your slushie and a grey one too and I think they are beautiful I raised my white snail from a tiny baby to a big snail I love them there so adorable
i love how snails just simply exist and their owners are like “if this snail isn’t living a life of complete and utter luxury, then what’s the point?”
that’s the mindset pet owners should have with all animals :’)
Haha yes! I just literally saved a Burgandy snail from a super arid environment. They belong in Europe. So cold and moist environment. I found my lil' dude living in an irrigated desert basically. Our temps hit 110 today too. It is in a large and moist jungle enclosure now (high humidity, cold, and lots of leaves for shade from my mulberry tree)
plz i overdo all my inverts cages with fun decor and stuff, they’re literal spiders and i know they don’t care but i must give them the best
💀 I got called out. My bois are in a mansion and get served smoothies on demand
I’m still so frustrated that a person in this community had the audacity to mail you a live animal without your knowledge or desire to have one. It is unfair to toss an exotic animal with a rather long lifespan onto a stranger! None the less, I love your Slushie updates
Yeah definitely.
It's also super dangerous and irresponsible. Exotic animals that end up in the wild can spread quickly and have terrible consequences on habitats :(
What if there was a type of snail that like wasn't allowed in the country that she's living in
@@MarieMcKinneyOatesIt would have been destroyed before it got to her
Its awful that Slushie was just sent to you but I'm so glad that he's with you now! I've been really interested in snails in the past and I love them! A quick question, what happened with the old cleaning crew? Anyways love you!
I chucked it in my rats dig box lol
@@Emiology 😅
What is the old cleaning crew?
@@hello8671 The cleaning crew in the smaller enclosure!
That are carnivore so if a clean up crow dies than it will be Eaton but a number clean up crow
Awww I love snails. My old school (like OLLLDDDD xD) had two snails in a tank at the back of the class. They where so well kept and where there for years after and years before I was there. I think it was where my love for exotic animals came from. I was always looking after them and making sure they had the best care! ^-^
If you'll be looking for a second snail, I highly recommend a lissachatina reticulata, which has same care needs and gets to similar size. And since they are different types, they won't crossbreed and won't keep up laying eggs, which is very exhausting for snails. Self fertisize is very rare, so you may not ever need to be taking care of eggs.
I also see you giving him a cumber and tomato, which aren't very nutritious. Courgette, sweet potatoe, mushrooms are good base, but it is important to give them variety of food. Very good source of protein are grounded pumpkin/sunflower/flax seeds.
And if you have such a big enclousre it would be nice to put couple of cuttlefish bones in other places so that he can always find one. And it should be put hard side down. Snails doesn't like eating it if it gets moist and brownish, so when it happens, it is best to change it to new one.
If I see correclty you're also putting porcellio leavis in there? They are often used as clean up crew, but can be very protein hungry, so their population should be watched over and if there's too many of them, remove a few, as they can go for snail and starts biting on him.
Your enclosure looks very aesthetic and quite safe i'm sure he'll appreciate it. :D
Thank you :)
It was cucumber, red pepper and carrot, not tomato. He often gets potato, courgette, mushrooms, carrots on a more regular basis, but this was filmed on a Saturday and we do our food shop on a Sunday, so he just got a small selection of what we had left in the fridge at the time, but he gets a mix of what we have in the house at the time, I don't eat courgette but I always make sure to buy one for the snail and the rats :)
@@Emiology i have never had courgette in my hands before I got snails, but now i always have one in my fridge XD
Actually L.Reticulata needs different environment and should never live together with any other species of gals, which stands for all species.
@@mathilde1439what's the different environment?
@@eseseewsse4737 Fulica needs 22°-26° and humidity between 70-75 while Retics need 25°-27° and about 80-85 humidity
Oh my gosh he's huge now! What a spoiled snail :)
So happy to see a Slushie update! 🐌 I was so shocked when they first arrived, but it's clear you're determined to do best by them and keep up with the care.
Aww yay!!! Slushie is such a good snail and is so lucky to have such an amazing home!!!
The setup is beautiful 😍 makes me jealous! He’s so cute too, watching him come crawling out the front 😭
It‘s so nice to see some of Slushie! The new set up looks amazing!
He’s gotten huge!!! I knew they got big but I thought it was a slow growth but wow that was quick!
I was looking back at a photo from may and he was half the size 😳 we were supposed to move back in April and he would’ve got the upgrade very soon after so the bigger he’s got since then has made me feel so guilty that he couldn’t get the enclosure he deserved
@@Emiology you have no reason to feel guilty, you gave him the best you could at the moment and your upgrading as soon as your able. That’s all anyone can ask for.
I love it when we get surprise Wednesday videos! Slushie is so lucky to have such a great home!
A very rare occurrence lol, I felt bad if this took the space of a rat / mouse video so bonus video to make everyone happy!
Omg! I remember when u first got Slushy! AAAHH I can’t believe how big he is now goshhh!!! I want a snail so bad now lol.
I have 2 garden snails (I used to have 3, one recently passed) I really want to give them an awesome setup like this one day. They are in a tub because it’s easier to maintain humidity but I hate the limited space it has, I can’t go all out for them like I do with my other animals. I do have a spare tank but it has no lid and don’t have a good mister apart from a broken spray bottle.
You're doing all you can and that is what matters!❤ Also you're doing really well with the whole situation you are in, slushie is a very, very lucky snail! 🐌😊
Snails have been my favourite animal since I was little so he has definitely made my day!! Your such an incredible person and an amazing carer for animals!
What a great enclosure for your snail! You did a very good job.
Wow!! Looks amazing 🤎🐌 Ahh I wondered what the little bugs on him where
I think ther are spring tales
Yeah
You might want to think about adding a drainage layer for the plants (hyro balls and drainage mesh on top)! Looks amazing though!!
For snails you have to dig around the soil often to check and dispose of eggs which would disturb a drainage layer I think! Otherwise I would’ve added one ☺️ The spider plant I left in the pot and the other two I think will have to be replaced every few weeks as they’re eaten!
when slushie fist went into the new setup curiosity won over shyness 😭 what a lovely lil friend
I find it so funny that it is so difficult to find an African snail in England when i can literally walk outside and an African snail is somewhere in my garden :)
You're probably the only person who could almost convince me to get a giant snail as a pet... Almost.
Slushy is adorable tho!
I own ovum’s they are truly fascinating and under appreciated animals !, great content as always ❤️
I love ovums!
Wauw thats a great enclosure!
I have an immaculata and a reticulata (not together) they are such fun animals to care for :) I am going to upgrade my snails enclosure soon actually, so this was fun to watch.
I love him! Look how sweet he is, oh my goodness ❤️ Thank you for making sure he is thriving, regardless of the unfair situation you were put in ❤️
Slushie likes you I can tell! He is very cute 😍
Love it! I just collected a bunch of wild grove snails and have a small plastic setup for them but i plan on switching them to a twenty gallon long as soon as i can.
Oh my goodness, I love slushie so much... how perfect a creature!
It looks so amazing! And Slushie is sooooo cute! 🥰🥰
When it doesn't fit , give it to the boyfriend 😆. Love it because I do the same thing Always! He has saved my projects so many times ❣️ 🥰 gotta love that extra brain 🧠 power 💪😜
Set up looks absolutely gorgeous Em 🤩
Haha when I say “I’m going to fix this” what I mean is I’m going to find a man to do it for me 😂Made him drop everything he was doing to save the day lol
Dairy cow isopods with dwarf purple isopods is my favorite bioactive clean up crew combination. They breed very fast and get the job done.
I been there. After all the new terrarium set up they have a look and went off 🐌 😂 my Steve 🐌 same behaviour 🥰
I too have a marginata suturalis just with a dark body, hes very cute
I really really really really really really really really really love love love love love love love love love his name. I can't get over how cute it is.
What a beautiful snail!!
Slushie is so cute! Wish you hadn't had to go take care of a new pet, but you're handling them really well!
Thats a great dark damp emclosure! And no i dont mean it as a insult, snails dont like bright sunlight so its good that its on the darker side. Im getting my huge terrarium soon bc i have four giant african land snails. And they are really outgrowing their enclosure. Its going to be a hell of a job setting up a 2 meter terrarium xD.
Slushie is AMAZING!! Thanks for sharing.
Bro was a jigsaw master
Aww so cute my snails are spoiled 😆
Im sorry but the way slushie fell 😂
where did you get the snail protein mix and the cork elements I'm re doing my snails tank too
Gorgeous enclosure! Well done.
Girl no the lotus is watching me :D
100th like! I love your videos and your pets are so cute!
I kept pet snails when I was in middle school but I never did a very good job of it. Now I kinda want to do that again...
You are such an inspiring person!!
oh thank you that's so lovely!
So beautiful and I love him
Fun fact,land snails are territorial and remember their home by the scent of their own slime, so slushie does indeed trying to go back to its old tank.
I love the way you have this brilliant
He is adorable 🥰
You can raise a baby separately for 3 to ,4 months then once shell is hard it can join with big snail..you can put some small plastic tubing for it to hide
Ilove getting to see Slushie
Say bye bye to your live plants
Bro’s living better then me
if you do want the enclosure to be more clean you can get iso pods they are kinda like springtails but bigger and clean more!🤗🙂
sorry i didn't realize you had them already 😅
Aaaaay!!! Extra video!! Hello slushy 😊
The enclosure looks awesome!!!
This is so cool cuz I've been planning on doing a massive upgrade for my garden snail so this will give me a lot of inspiration and ideas so I'm very thankful
loved this!!i have the same snails:)
This was so satisfying
a early vid?!?!?!? i can never whait a week!!!
great video keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!
Wow he's huge!
I want a snail so bad 😭😭 They're literally the cutest but they're illegal in America
Why are they illegal? They seem like a chill pet to have.
@@emilyfentem6571 I didn’t realize they were illegal in America but if this is true it probably means they can be an invasive species. Just a guess though
@@emilyfentem6571 The problem is that any pets, but especially small animals, are often abandoned because people think any patch of grass is every and any animal's "natural habitat"; people also keep several snails and don't do anything to stop them from multiplying; and they can escape bad enclosures, especially the small babies.
After these snails are outside, they will keep multiplying and devouring all sorts of plants, more than any native snail in the US does and the damage they can do to agriculture and biodiversity is very difficult to stop. In Florida and Hawaii they're trying to eradicate them at the moment.
Unfortunately they're considered an invasive species of snail. I was devastated when I found out because they've been a dream pet of mine for years. There's actually a few petitions people have made to try and make them legal in the US lol
i have garden snails but i’m always scared to handle them bc they’re so tiny and fragile. i really want one of these big guys 😍
Wow, you actually seal off the top? Interesting, I guess they don't consume much oxygen. I know inverts usually odn't, but this species is... exceptional lol, so I didn't want to assume that. That's good news for me, that makes them more achievable to keep at my workplace. Btw, I highly recommend always having a drainage layer whenever you set up a bioactive enclosure. Even if the substrate is relatively stable and sterile like coco fiber from bricks, water buildup on the bottom will still cause bacteria and fungi blooms over time, even with a cleanup crew. You want a gravel bed for the water to sit in and evaporate up into the substrate, and a mesh barrier to hold the substrate above the gravel.
Snails bury themselves in the substrate and would ruin a drainage layer to the point where it would just be mixed together and not effective 😊
@@Emiology There are ways to reinforce a drainage layer against tampering, if they're the type of animal to do that. Bearded dragons are infamous for that too, and there are a variety of solutions, like utilising a solid plastic mesh of some kind like milk crates or egg crate light diffuser and attaching the windowscreen mesh directly to that, or layering flat rocks or bark slats on top of the mesh. Using larger and rougher pieces for the drainage area also helps, like medium to large sized lava rocks instead of small gravel.
I'm going to change out the dirt when my mom gets home of my snails tank because I forgot to make it so there's no clumps oh and I think I've already said this more than once but your snail is adorable I wish I could have one by live in a country where it's not allowed in America I'm pretty sure they're not allowed in America that's where I live
Lovely snail 🐌🐌
I wish America allowed giant African land snails. There usually illegal almost everywhere here regular snails are somewhat legal but it’s illegal to release them.
Its because they are highly invasive and some of them will eat smaller snails + the babies will enjoy the shell from other snails too. "Regular snails" are probably local snails living in your country naturally :)
Though it’s impossible to kill a living creature without causing any suffering, freezing is recommended to dispose of snails.
My enclosure always gets little bugs in it and I have to change the soil to get rid of them - does the clean up crew help with that problem? Also thank you so mych this has given me so much inspiration 😅 I’m putting a spider plant in my snails enclosure as we speak ! I think we have the exact type of snail !
Snails can be absolutely fine on their own, they aren't actually social exactly. It's competition for food that makes them more active. If you do want anothery sutralis there's a MeWe group for buying snails from breeders. Please don't get from a pet shop EVEN an invert shop. They don't know what they're doing with snails. I got some from a well known invert shop and they both were unhealthy. One even died after 2 weeks of getting it. 😭
Also, in future when putting a plant in, take the soil from the plant away and give the roots a rinse to make sure there are no nasties.
I'd also add an extra calcium source as it is quite a large enclosure. But I'm so glad he's doing well!! x
Don't worry I don't buy any of my pets from pet stores! All my inverts I get from experiences sellers online, I was just trying to explain that most snails sold in pet stores don't tend to be anything other than Fulica.
I'm not sure if want a second snail / another Suturalis, they wouldn't be my first choice of snail as they don't have much variety, I always had my heart set on getting a completely albino GAL when I was ready to, and as I don't have the space for another tank, perhaps that will have to wait until after Slushie :)
@@Emiology As someone in another comment mentioned, marginatas (both ovum and saturalis) are a special case where they CAN be housed with other species, which would be the achatina achatina and lissachatina reticulata. I'd go for a retic in this case, since they are one of the more healthier snail species, and they do come in albino body and can have a (mostly) albino shell! Achatina Achatina are also an option of course, but they tend to have health problems (respiratory infections) and grow suuuuuper slow.
@@baltobud8 I know! Unfortunately I'm just not very interested in any of the species that can be kept with Suturalis, I do think Tiger snails are cool though! If i'd have chosen myself I probably would have gone for Fulica just based on the colour variety available, or a pair of Ovums. Maybe in the future though :)
Love you so much!
What a sweet and handsome young man! I love GALS. But they are illegal in America unfortunately
i fricken love slushie omg
how do you keep your springtails and woodlice from over populating? I used to have them in my tank and they wouldn't stop breeding so I had to completely get rid of them
Do you still need holes in the climg film?
Hello, you might not see this comment as the video is 4 months old, but if you do I would like to congratulate for this awsome terrarium, but also leave a suggestion.
The heat mat is an awfull heat source, why?
Because they only emit infrared c ( infrared being the radiation we call heat) when around 1% of the suns spectrum ( the diferent types of radiation it releases that compose it's total energy) is infrared c.
A big part of the infrared it releases is infrared a and b, all of them having different properties and interactions with living beings.
I don't know much about snails but light (being energy) sustains all life on earth, and all or most living being are naturally exposed to it, therefore their bodies will have a use for it. Reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals have been proven to have positive impacts such as hormonal control and vitemin sintesis, and of course reptiles and amphibians also use this energy to control their body temperature.
Besides that, having that poor heat soure underneath the terrarium doesn't recreate their natural habitat in any way as the energy source comes form above. When infrared a and b waves are reflected by objects they convert to infrared c, and then you better recreate both infrared a, b, and c wavelenghts of wich their bodies will use( including even ours), speacially the a and b as the c can't really pass through melanin.
I'm sorry for such a long post but as someone now with some knowledge I just wanted to make it clear why you should change that heath source( the best one that comes closer to match the suns infrared spectrum is the halogen lamp) and of course the same argument goes to uv and visible light, all found in nature, and although it seems strange and further researching is necessary it has already been proven to many inverts that they have a use for this sources of energy.
That said you're doing a good job and got the right sipirit,and it's great that you recognize the value of that animal when most people wouldn't think in investing for such a space for a snail.
While I appreciate all the benefits of heat lamps for other animals, the general consensus when it comes to snails is to not use them. They don’t bask under them like reptiles would and there’s more potential for the enclosure and also the snail to dry out, having a heat mat on the side or below helps to heat the soil and create humidity, heat above would possibly cause the snails to burrow into the soil and hide. Based on this advice that’s why I use a heat mat for this enclosure but definitely recognise the benefits for reptiles and my gecko gets her heat source this way ☺️
@@Emiology Ok, as I'm not familiar to snails i didn't have these ideias in account.
It was great to share our ideas though I'll just leave an open thought, that because an animal doesn't necessarily bask it doesn't have to mean that they don't us that energy through for example refelcted rays that travel down to the forest flor.
But I do understand your arguments and experience which I don't have with snails, it was more of an ideia worth considering and following research on if further studies come out.
All said thank you for the reply and this sort of mini debate, as foward thinking keepers we always need to strive to recreate nature as closely as possible! ( said by Jhon Courtney Smith) and it's great to see the evolution in care provided even to snails.
I do not know where my snail butter is this morning I woke up she was perfectly fine but then right when my mom left to go do something I checked up on them I fed them some lettuce then I went to go check on them again and butter wasn't there I can still see popcorn but we might get a replacer if I can't find her and she might have gone loose and my cat already ate her by the way that snail is so cute
Slushie is a cute name lol
Hey, I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I’ve been looking into getting mice recently. I happen to have an old 16x16x30in mesh reptile cage and was wondering if that would make a good mouse enclosure. If not I can totally get something else, I want them to have the best lives possible!
Hello! I have gals (giant African land snails) and was wondering where you get your woodlice and springtails!
Love the vid how many gallons is the tank it looks great and I would be interested in buying one thanks:))
Your most likely probably definitely not gonna see this but if u do I was just wondering where u got ur tank from as I need to upgrade my snail tank
Exo terra from Facebook market place
Thankyou so much !
did you ever consider finding someone who may be interested in having a snail or something, just given the way you acquired him which 'fair on you. BUT I think you're doing a great job and I'm sure Slushie is still really happy! please don't take the first part as criticism it was just curiosity.
I'm no sure about giant snails... are they very gloopy?
In some channels, it is recommended to soak the giant African snails for 24 hours in salt water to kill them? Do you think it is possible to kill giant African snails without pain? If there is a way, what is it?
Are they solitary animals
I have lots of that breed 😄
Girl! U did such a great job, it looks awesome! I’m so happy that you used coco soil rather than stuff with peat and sphagnum moss in it, so many ppl don’t know how harmful that stuff is to use for gardening and pets!
You're not supposed to handle them with your bare skin very often as the oils can be harmful to them. But my hand was washed with water and then wet when I picked him up just to create a barrier. But they're not a pet that should be handled all day every day :)
@@Emiology that’s cool, I have never heard of someone with a pet snail so I didn’t know, thanks!
if you are concerned about them needing to be social for mine I have put woodlice and a millipede in their inclosure
Do you not worry about the clean up crew getting out?
How do you clean his droppings when the soil is too much? Aren't they going to mingle?
That’s why it’s bioactive you don’t need to clean it
Could two theoretically fit in that tank?
Showing this to my boyfriend in Hope he Will let me gave one xD
Would you say a bio-active setup is beginner friendly? I've always wanted land snails and I might be in a position to finally have some in the next year or two and a bioactive setup would be ideal for me. Are bioactive enclosures still relatively easy to find eggs in? (I work away so I wouldn't have difficulty finding someone to feed them and sort eggs but I wouldn't feel comfortable asking them to clean the enclosure)
It’s not too much difference than how you’d have to have a setup for snails anyway. If you don’t do a drainage layer which most people don’t recommend with animals that will burrow and need the soil turning regularily it’s the same as regular soil just with bugs in for you to turn and look for eggs, the clean up crew is quite hardly so you can move the soil around without harming them too much ☺️
@@Emiology can you explain the drainage layer to me? Is it something I need to have or something I shouldn't have? Sorry just not quite understanding and it's had to find more detailed snail care online because so many people recommend them as easy pets for kids this kind of more detailed information is lacking 🙂
@@brawlives6996 You don't need a drainage layer with snails, they'll only mess it up when they burrow :)
how many snails do you think you can fit in a set up similar to this?
i feel kinda bad now, i do my best to care for my snails and i have 3 in a tank half that size
Hi sorry if you answered this somewhere already but how do you tell male and female snails apart? Is there a method or do you have to guess? Thanks for sharing this video! And congrats to Slushie on his new enclosure :-)
Snails have both male and female cells so they can either lay or fertilise eggs. So slushie isn't technically a male, just had a male name to me when he was sent and it's stuck
@@Emiology thank you for explaining this!! I learned something new today haha
Hi I also have 2 giant labs snails and they are both in separate viva I have one like your slushie and a grey one too and I think they are beautiful I raised my white snail from a tiny baby to a big snail I love them there so adorable
hiiiiiiii where can I get a African land snail
What are the bugs on him?
EDIT... JUST SAW 8:06 YOU ANSWERED IN THE VIDEO 😂😂😂😂😂
If you get a second Snail you could name them "Smoothie" or "Sorbet" to match Slushy ^^
That’s so funny smoothie is exactly the name I have set aside for a second snail 😯