ironic, since your site would lead one to conclude you'd know things like that, scythemantis.bugsnstuff said:well, actually you would need a pair, they aren't parthenogenic, they're hermaphrodites, each animal being both sexes.
what happens is they fire a 'dart' of spermatophore into each other, hence fertilising each other.
the eggs are easy to dispose of by removing them and freezing them
well, actually you would need a pair, they aren't parthenogenic, they're hermaphrodites, each animal being both sexes.Scythemantis said:The african land snail would be the pet of my dreams if it wasn't so dangerous to have. A single snail will still eventually reproduce, fertilizing itself and producing hundreds of baby clones, which I personally would never be able to bring myself to kill.
Scythemantis said:The african land snail would be the pet of my dreams if it wasn't so dangerous to have. A single snail will still eventually reproduce, fertilizing itself and producing hundreds of baby clones, which I personally would never be able to bring myself to kill.
I have no specific source, but trust me, I've searched. There isn't one land snail over a couple inches in length that is legal to keep in america. All "giant" land snails are generally part of the same group of snails all about equally adaptive and ravenous.
The biggest terrestrial mollusc you can get, as far I know, is just the native banana slug, which you can collect from outdoors in some parts of the country so they aren't really considered special/exotic enough to be in the pet trade. I want one, though. They're colorful, we don't have them in MD, and they live a lot longer than smaller slugs/snails. I just need to find someone who can mail me one.
If anyone can prove me wrong, I'll be quite happy about it.
maybe thats a bit of an exageration, 200-400 is more realistic, still loads, but 20,000 is not truerandolph20 said:they can lay like 20 thousand eggs each time and grow pretty <EDIT> fast
Scythemantis said:...native banana slug...